General Knowledge Apps
Mini-U: OverColor
Mini-U: OverColor is a creative puzzle app that challenges children to replicate animal images made with overlapping geometric shapes. Fun, challenging, and easy to use.
Why Bath Time
Why Bath Time is a cute storybook app that teaches children not only the importance of bath time, but also how to stay clean, healthy, and germ-free.
JFK Challenge
JFK Challenge is a wonderful and well-designed app that may spark a life-long love of history in children. It also is a great source of information about two very important milestones in U.S. history.
Pacca Alpaca-Australia
Pacca Alpaca-Australia is a great educational app that teaches children their shapes, colors, and counting in a fun, vibrant environment.
Montessori Preschool App
Montessori Preschool App is a fabulous educational tool for children that will teach them a wide variety of words and concepts in fun learning environment.
Winky Think Logic Puzzles
Winky Think Logic Puzzles is an outstanding app that will provide hours of productive play value to children from preschool age on up. Everyone will benefit from exercising their logic, problem-solving, and thinking skills and everyone will enjoy the fun puzzles.
Highlights: All About
Highlights: All About is a wonderful digital addition to the Highlights family. Just like in the magazine, the app provides a wide array of activities that encourage thinking skills, practice foundational academic skills, and more.
Knowji Vocab 7-10, SAT, GRE, ASVAB Audio Visual Vocabulary Flashcards with Spaced Repetition
Knowji Vocab 7-10 is an outstanding and useful vocabulary development program that will help teens to prepare for high-stakes tests, assist students to prepare for collegiate level reading, and adults to review important vocabulary.
The Great Inventors
The Great Inventors will help kids from preschool through early elementary school learn basic information about the history of common inventions and their inventors. Children will enjoy the engaging graphics and animations, the narrated information, and the learning games.
President’s Day Apps for Kids 2015
Reviewed and recommended, these apps are a fun way for kids to learn about our American presidents anytime of year. Presidents vs Aliens Presidents vs Aliens is a game-like app that takes learning to the next level. This fun, interactive app teaches children fun facts, names, quotes, and so much more about presidents and includes …
Star Walk Kids – Explore Space & Planets
Star Walk Kids-Explore Space and Planets is a wonderful adventure into the science and culture of the nighttime sky. It will encourage interest in astronomy and also allow families to explore the beauty of the night together.
Messy Mia and the Tale of Ancient Tech
Messy Mia and the Tale of the Ancient Tech shows young children how technology has changed between the time their parents were young and the present day.
U.S. Geography with Flat Stanley HD
U.S. Geography with Flat Stanley HD provides a fun way to learn United States geography and basic information about the states.
KidQuest
KidQuest will provide your children with hours of hand-on, learning fun as they do crafts, explore science experiments and more as they follow the directions from this app.
Kid Awesome Kindergarten
Kid Awesome Kindergarten will really take young students through their paces, and they will hardly know it’s an educational app because it is so incredibly engaging.
This is my car – Mechanics for kids
Grab your keys, rev your engine, and start making your car your own as you learn all about how it runs.
Lars and Friends
Beautiful watercolor illustrations, puzzles, and a short learning activity add to the story of Lars, a horse, as he interacts with his other animal friends.
The Little Bug
The Little Bug is a delightful ebook designed for young children. It’s an uplifting story of a young caterpillar learning about the talents of other forest friends and finding his own unique talent.
Multipets The Four Seasons
A somewhat intuitive app introduces kids to the four seasons through a variety of mini games and other fun activities.
Seashores to Sea Floors-the Ocean Biome
Seashores to Sea Floors-the Ocean Biome is a phenomenal digital textbook covering science content for students in grades 3 to 5.
Pines to Vines-the Forest Biome
Pines to Vines-the Forest Biome is an outstanding example of a digital textbook and does an exceptional job of covering this science content for grades 3-5.
The Mystery of The Lost Red Scarf – The Unique & Magical Adventure of Jacques & Missy in Costa Rica
Send kids on a low-key adventure before bed while reading through this cute, interactive eBook.
Blades-the Grassland Biome
Blades-the Grassland Biome may well be the ideal digital textbook for third through fifth grade students who need to learn about grasslands for fun or for science class.
Free App Friday – May 23rd, 2014
Welcome to another Free App Friday. Most apps are listed on our sister site, FreeAppFriday.com. If we’ve reviewed and recommend the app we list it below. Enjoy! view all FREE APP FRIDAY apps Free App Friday Picks The following app/s have been reviewed by the BestAppsForKids.com team AND are free for Free App Friday – what …
Outside Your Door Learning Library Collection
Another wonderful collection of outdoor educational stories by Oceanhouse Media that teaches children about birds, butterflies, trees, and seeds. Great for families or for use in the classroom!
RecyClaire
Join Claire in her journey to keep the planet clean by recycling, reusing, and reducing waste. A great story to teach little ones about taking care of our planet.
Sudoku Junior
Sudoku Junior provides number or picture puzzles at all levels of difficulty, making it perfect for anyone learning the game.
PlayKids
PlayKids is a wonderful app with so many activities, well-known video programs (Calliou, Super Why, and more), music, stories, and so much more that will keep children entertained for hours.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf VL2 Storybook
The Boy Who Cried Wolf VL2 Storybook offers the well-known children’s tale in text and sign language formats with several options for combining sign with text.
The Rainforest Musical Kakamega
The Rainforest Musical Kakamega is a magical experience for parents and children with an amazing story, beautiful illustrations, and wonderful music to enjoy!
Rough Science
Rough Science provides basic introductory information about layers of the earth, states of matter, and adaptation/evolution in the form of a video tutorial and a hands-on challenge that reinforces a simple concept from the video.
USA – Illustrated Atlas
USA-Illustrated Atlas is a fun memory challenge focused on facts about the United States. It includes five reference maps and four games to help commit the information to memory.
Meet Science: Magnetism and Electricity
Meet Science: Magnetism and Electricity is an interactive, thorough study guide for basic physics concepts in the two areas. The app is informative and engaging, and a great resource for upper elementary through beginning high school students.
Water Cycles
Water Cycles is an overall great educational app that is interactive, challenging and fun for parents and children!
Brainfeed
Brainfeed is an amazing app full of wonderful educational videos across a wide variety of topics that will keep children engaged and entertained for hours!
Presidents Challenge
Presidents Challenge is a fun and diverting way to memorize the names of the presidents of the United States in order. Users can choose to tackle specific eras or the entire list at once. There is a blank timeline with the year of election on one side of the screen, and a tray of presidential portraits with names on the other side. Users drag pictures from the tray to the correct place on the timeline. The app also provides a little biographical and background information about each president.
2BME Aviator
2BME Aviator offers young children a glimpse into the life of an aviator through interactive activities.
Vincent the Anteater’s Space Voyage
Vincent the Anteater’s Space Voyage is more than just a storybook app, it’s an overall educational and entertaining experience for children of all ages.
Dinosaur Train A to Z
Dinosaur Train A to Z is an awesome educational app that teaches children a ton of great information about dinosaurs through various interactive images and narrated text. Perfect for the dinosaur lover in your home!
Busy Shapes
Busy Shapes is full of great graphics and sound effects that will keep children engaged as they practice their problem solving skills.