Preschool Apps
Dr. Panda’s Daycare
Dr. Panda’s Daycare is a great app for role playing and creative play, and just having fun.
I Love You All The Time
A charming story about a parents love for their child, I Love You All The Time is an excellent addition to any digital library. The app includes many great book app features and the song track.
The Tale of the Missing Acorns HD – Mystery Theme Studybook
This multi-purpose app contains a mystery of missing acorns and 10 learning activities. Multiple language and story options are available.
Jesus Loves Me
Whether you are a parent looking for faith-based kids’ apps or are someone who enjoys this childhood song this is an adorable app to download.
Toddler Maze 123
Twenty engaging mazes, adorable characters, multiple languages and more can be found in this fantastic app.
Elly’s Christmas
Bringing the holiday season alive for children is so important. What better way to do just that, than to stock your iPad and iPhone with charming stories like Elly’s Christmas for your readers, young and old?
House that Jack built
House that Jack Built is still the traditional nursery rhyme that many of us remember, but it can now be experienced in a new way. This e-book includes multilingual options and multiple activities.
Ten Giggly Gorillas
Guaranteed giggles for your pint-sized gorillas. Everyone will delight in tickling the gorillas. The match game is a bonus for all to enjoy.
Doodle Yoodle
Doodle Yoodle Builder draws on your child’s creativity. This digital sticker book provides endless possibilities for a wide range of users.
The Tree I See
The Tree I See is a delightful storybook app that will appeal to all ages. This high quality app contains many desirable features and is reasonably priced.
Monkey Word School Adventure
Fun educational entertainment for a great price; a learning game kids will want to play over and over again… and parents won’t mind.
Math and Letters Air Control
Math and Letters Air Control is best for reinforcing math and language skills in a fun game style app. This reasonably priced app is a great educational game for kids.
Flora's Forest
Flora’s Forest is an enchanting story with many interactive objects. It is a delightful book to be enjoyed by kids and their parents.
Harry and the Haunted House
Harry and the Haunted House is a cute story about a group of friends needing to enter a spooky house to retrieve their ball. More fun than spooky it should be fine even for young readers. Contains some great features, but lacks others.
Singing Monster Nutcracker feat. Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman & Zombie
Singing Monster Nutcracker is a fun addition to your collection of Halloween apps. It is easy to use and reasonably priced. Kids will enjoy interacting with the monster nutcrackers.
Educational Wooden Puzzle Collection
Educational Wooden Puzzle Collection is a nice collection of wooden puzzles for toddler through kindergarteners. While the price may seem high it is actually a good value considering the number of puzzles and features it contains.
Happy Little Farmer
Happy Little Farmer is a nicely designed science app to teach young kids the life cycle of plants using three different scenarios. A few changes could be made in how things are depicted or how kids interactive with them, but the app is still recommended.
Hazy Dell HD
Hazy Dell is a beautifully illustrated, quirky Halloween tale with a twist that leaves the ghouls running scared. The book includes Read To Me and Read To Myself features.
Spooky Halloween Book Apps for Kids
Our second Halloween app list is all about books. We have some old favorites from last year, like Vlad’s Vampire Bats, and newcomers, Frankie for Kids. Included are some classics from Oceanhouse Media, like What Was I Scared Of? by Dr. Seuss and a Halloween themed book from the Berenstain Bears.
i Learn With Boing: Ocean Adventures!
Ocean Adventures is a great addition to the already entertaining iLearn With educational series of apps and it is free to download; additional content is available through an in-app purchase.
Toddler’s Seek & Find: At the Circus
Toddler’s Seek & Find: At the Circus is an engaging seek and find app for toddlers and preschoolers; beautifully hand-drawn illustrations and an incredible amount of interactive objects. One scene is free with the initial download; two more available with an in-app purchase.
Pearly
Pearly provides many opportunities for creative entertainment. While some additional refinements are needed it is a good app at a reasonable price.
Baby Learns Colors
Baby Learns Colors is an entertaining way for kids to learn colors whether in their native language or a foreign one. The ability to create your own records is available.
Squeebles Spelling
An engaging spelling app specifically designed for customized lists only, allows for an unlimited number of lists and users. Spelling: Squeebles Words is well suited for home or school. Fantastic price considering all of the features and functionality included.
Sliding Sam
Sliding Sam is a fun, physics based game for all ages preschool and older.
Pop ABCs
Pop ABCs offers an entertaining way for young kids to work on recognizing the letters of the alphabet.
The Scariest Halloween Story Ever!
The Scariest Halloween Story Ever is a fun app that will get kids into the spirit of Halloween in a silly, semi-scary way.
Dr. Panda's Restaurant – Cooking Game For Kids
Deliciously fun, Dr Panda’s Restaurant will delight preschool aged kids while they cook food for their animal friends – plus learn some other useful kitchen chores.
Writing Magic Letters:: Kids Learn to Write
More than just letter tracing, Writing Magic Letters, requires children to use their problem solving skills during the game portion of the app. App includes only lower case letters.
First day at school
First Day of School deals with a very stressful event for many children in a positive way. Extra activities make us feel good about recommending the app which comes in at $2.99
Rhinomite
Rhinomite is an educational app where kids can fly like a super hero; not just any super hero, but a fashionable one, while learning a number of educational concepts in an entertaining and safe environment.
Fido's Treehouse Scavenger Hunt
Fido’s Treehouse Scavenger Hunt is creative and fun for kids 3 – 7 years.
Letter Muncher
A cute letter munching character, and fun design, makes this a great app to help kids learn beginning sounds.
A not so Fading Light
Superb illustration, creative story and charming narration makes A Not So Fading Light a very special little eBook.
BeingDifferent
Being Different is a lovely little eBook that shows that it’s okay to be different and it’s important to be a friend.
Green Up
This is a thoroughly enjoyable game that appeals to a variety of ages from from toddler to adult (with varying degrees of help). Even a toddler, when guided by an adult, can enjoy Green Up – without even getting dirty.
Tappie Colorit
Delightful, educational and entertaining, Tappie Colorit has a lot to offer at a great price.
Montessori Numbers
Montessori Numbers contains multiple educational activities for kids ages 3-7 and is reasonably priced.
Free App Friday: Language Arts
This week as part of our back to School month, we’re featuring apps that support Language Arts both inside and out of the classroom. So whether your child is working on mastering tracing letters (Pre-K Letters and Numbers Pro for Teachers) or need inspiration for writing projects (Shake-a-Phrase: Fun With Words and Sentences) – there …