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Tips for Finding the Best Educational Apps for Your Kids
We all want to make sure our children don’t get too much screen time on mobile devices, but at the same time, there can be a lot of value to certain education apps and online programs for kids. As a parent, you want to make sure you’re letting your kids use tablets and smartphones in …
PepeLine
PepeLine is a fun tile-slide puzzle that offers hundreds of individual puzzles with a range of difficulty and special effects. There are hints available (for purchase or in exchange for watching advertisements), so players don’t have to give up when they get stuck on a particular level.
Sofus and the Moonmachine
Sofus and the Moonmachine is an adventurous storybook app that takes readers through a magnificent and interactive journey through space. Fun to read and highly interactive, this app is great for children of all ages.
Crazy Maths Adventure
Crazy Math Adventure is an engaging, educational app that allows children to practice their year 1 and year 2 math skills with an exciting game like platform. Full of adventure and tons of fun this app is great for children of all ages.
Nano Bear Rainforest Animals
Nano Bear Rainforest Animals offers a fun way for children to learn a variety of rainforest animals and their sounds through exploratory play. Easy to use and great for young children.
Moonlight Hide and Seek
Moonlight Hide & Seek is an interesting storybook app with a mathematical twist. With great illustrations, a fun story, and a bit of subtraction practice too, this app is one that will keep little ones engaged while they learn.
Bla Bla Box
Bla Bla Box is an easy to use early learning app that helps children combine letters together to learn sounds, syllables, and words. This app is perfect for early readers!
Kapu Planet
Kapu Planet is a highly interactive app that teaches children a bit about various animals and countries through experiential play. Creative, fun, and easy to play!
Planet Lettra
Planet Lettra is an outstanding app that will help young readers develop an intuitive understanding of phonics and word analysis skills in a playful, encouraging environment.
Magic Poof
Join Ange-Marie and her Magic Poof as they decide how to pose for school pictures. This magical tale is fun to read and highly entertaining. Perfect for children of all ages.
Sam Plays Saxophone
Sam Plays Saxophone is a pleasant e-book with a small selection of activities to supplement the story, but it may not live up to the levels that the price might lead one to expect.
Sago Mini Babies
Sago Mini Babies is an interactive free play app that allows little ones to play, care for, and interact with four different baby animals. Great for families and children who may soon be a big brother or sister.
Animals: Sounds & Games
Toddlers will have fun exploring a wide variety of animal sounds and puzzles in Animals: Sounds & Games. Simple format and fun to play this app is perfect for the little one in your home.
Astro Nora: Addition & Subtraction Maths for 4-7 Year Olds
Astro Nora: Addition & Subtraction Maths for 4-7 Year Olds is a fun and simple app that provides practice on addition and subtraction from basic combinations through problems with three digits and regrouping. Children are likely to enjoy the app’s theme and reward system for a bit, but may tire of it quickly.
Pock & Palam
Pock & Palam makes a gentle and simplified introduction to many types of standard arcade and game system games, and will help young children feel like they are “part of the action” as they play a game that just may entertain older children as well.
Box Drop Math Addition Game: A Fun Way for Kids to Practice and Learn Basic Facts
Box Drop Math Addition Game provides addition facts in order of increasing difficulty and encourages players to build speed at basic addition combinations. A simple but fun arcade game challenges them to stack falling boxes to earn extra points.
Jungle Care Taker – Kid Doctor for Zoo & Safari Animals Fun Game, by Pazu
Budding veterinarians can help injured jungle animals get the help that they need in this fun doctor app.
Keep Safe Eva… Family! Fun! Photo Sharing with Child Lock for Kids
Allow toddlers and preschoolers to view photos on your devices without worrying about them being deleted.
New Kids Apps – October 2015
Straight from the App Store – here are October’s “Best New Kids Apps”. The App Store isn’t always right in its recommendations, but it’s always a good place to start when looking for a new app. Some apps may be rated age 9+. Enjoy! Fun & Game Apps for Kids Read our review. Read our …
Pronto Play
Race against another player to be the first to dress Fredo and Dressa while unscrambling words or answering basic math problems at the same time.
Spatial Line Puzzles
Solve dot and box puzzles to build your spatial and visual memory skills in this app designed by an occupational therapist.
Ready to Print
Build early writing skills and gain a sense of shape, motion, and letter awareness with Ready to Print.
OMG. I Can Meditate ! – Meditation and Mindfulness Made Easy!
Learn how to relax and find some daily peace with a large collection of topical meditations.
Amazing Car Wash – The funny cars washing game for kids
Head to car wash and get to work washing some very dirty cars. You’ll earn stars that you can redeem for silly rewards.
Name Play
Name Play is a great free-play app that allows children to practice reading, writing, and recognizing their own name with a variety of fun games and activities. Very well done!
The Pronoun Party
The Pronoun Party is a bare-bones, repetitive source of practice sentences with pronouns and gender words that will help young children practice understanding these words in spoken sentences and responding to them appropriately.
Mack the Dog Early Language Development 2
Follow the down-eared dog called Mack while he searches for his teddy bear and discover 65+ developing nouns for beginning readers at the same time.
Potty Training Learning with the Animals
Encourage your toddler to go potty by watching a bunch of cute animals head to their own potties.
New Kids Apps – September 2015
Straight from the App Store – here are September’s “Best New Kids Apps”. The App Store isn’t always right in its recommendations, but it’s always a good place to start when looking for a new app. Some apps may be rated age 9+. Enjoy! Fun & Game Apps for Kids Book Apps for Kids Educational …
EDNA
EDNA is a practical and easy-to-use mind mapping system that is perfect for middle and high school students who need to organize essays, reports, and other longer pieces of writing because it easily converts graphic idea webs into traditional outlines that make writing a breeze.
Safari Tales
Head on a jungle safari and learn about jungle animals through fun activities and stories.
My Little Fairy
My Little Fairy is an app that introduces children to the magical world of fairies with lots of fun activities including puzzles, music, and magic wands.
At a Glance: History Apps for Kids 2015
Thanks to the advances in technology educators and parents have more options available to them to make learning history fun. Apps can be a great tool to present material in an interactive and entertaining way. The apps included in our recommendations are not only educational, but also entertaining. Some apps may be rated age 9+.
Sticker Story – The storybook creativity kit for kids
Sticker Story-the Storybook Creativity Kit for Kids is a fun and creative way to nurture self-expression and story-telling in children from preschool through middle elementary grades.
Touch Activated Sensory Light Show
Touch Activated Sensory Light Show is a unique app that uses bright colored shapes, lights and sounds for children to enjoy.
Early Language Development with Sleepy Fred
Follow Sleepy Fred as he gets ready for bed in this cute rhyming story for kids.
Words with Ibbleobble
Words with Ibbleobble is an educational vocabulary app to teach children a wide variety of new words using fun images and illustrations.
This is my Food-Nutrition for kids
This is my Food is a fantastic educational app that teaches children all they need to know about nutrition and eating healthy. Educational, engaging, and perfect for home or the classroom!
History For Kids
Travel back in time and get an overview of the major time periods and events in world history with History for Kids, an animated eBook narrated by kids for kids.
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – High School
In high school, students are getting down to business, and they need apps that will support their learning. Bells and whistles of entertaining educational games often (but not always!) give way to practicality as kids focus on the job at hand. Our selection of recommended apps will help students review important concepts in core subjects, …