best apps for kids
Caroline’s Camera
Caroline’s Camera is a highly entertaining app for kids that uses creative rhythms, music, and camera play to create hours of fun. Easy to use and great for children of all ages, this is one app that both parents and kids will love.
Chortopia
Chortopia makes chore time fun with stories, games, and lots of adventures. Perfect for families with multiple children and parents who want to teach a bit of responsibility.
Cosmic Paul
Cosmic Paul is an early learning app that helps children practice their alphabet and spelling skills using a unique and very entertaining search and find concept. Interactive, educational, and tons of fun, this app is great for children of all ages!
MegaPro Calculator 5000
MegaPro Calculator 5000 isn’t your typical calculator! This calculator actually reaches children how to add and subtract large numbers in a visual way. Well done!
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.
Sago Mini Superhero
Sago Mini Superhero is a cute, interactive app that takes children on a journey with Jack the rabbit as he does a variety of good deeds around the city. Fun, easy to use, and great for children of all ages!
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!
Painting Lulu Coloring Books For Kids
Painting Lulu Coloring Books For Kids is a little artist’s dream app! With lots of fun coloring pages to enjoy and the option to create your own coloring pages, this app has it all.
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.
Maths Rock
Maths Rock lets kids rock out while practicing their basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills.
Bug Hunt
Bug Hunt is an easy to use, search and find style app that allows little ones to explore the forest floor for all kinds of critters. Simple, fun, and great for children five and under.
Orchard Toys
Orchard Toys is an all in one app that includes early learning activities with varying difficulty levels for young players to test their problem solving skills. With puzzles, matching, and memory games this app is fun for children of all ages!
My Little Place
My Little Place lets kids choose from a series of fun activities and preferences that make them feel in control.
SpellNow Year 2 Challenge
Second grade students can study 40 different spelling lists and learn over 400 spelling words through a series of fun spelling activities.
Monkey Party Learn Algebra
Monkey Party Learn Algebra makes an entertaining and valuable introduction to basic early algebra concepts, including balancing equations, combining like terms, using negative numbers, multiplying with fractions, and introducing the concept of graphing lines based on equations.
George and the Ice Cream Castle
Join George as he travels through Yum Yum Land to get to the Ice Cream Castle and learn about healthy eating along the way.
Kids Dreams: Gogo & Gaga Playground
Kids Dreams: Gogo & Gaga Playground is a fun early-learning app that lets children explore an interactive playground full of exciting mini-games including puzzles, music, shapes and more! Perfect for the little one in your home!
Alphamonster
Alphamonster is an awesome alphabet app with great visuals and sound effects that teaches little ones about each letter and sound in the alphabet. Great graphics, sound effects and educational activities!
Crazy Times Tables-Multiplication Photo Fun
Crazy Times Tables is one of the most perfect multiplication fact practice apps available. It offers repetition and choice of facts made enjoyable by creative and visually interesting special effects.
Dr. Panda’s Carnival
Join Dr. Panda and his crew for a fun day at the carnival to explore and enjoy fun rides, yummy snacks, and interactive activities. A great app that children of all ages can enjoy.
Elkonin Boxes: A Literacy Tool for Beginning Readers
Elkonin Boxes is a digital version of a highly-effective teaching strategy that will help beginning and struggling readers build vital skills for phonemic awareness, which is foundational to success in phonics.
I Got This: An Interactive Story
I Got This: An Interactive Story is a wonderful example of a high-quality public education ebook that is designed to appeal to the target age group, provides vital health information and does so in an engaging and memorable way.
Mash Monsters
Kids create silly monsters by themselves or collaboratively in this highly creative and fun app.
TouchMath Adventures: Jungle Addition 1
TouchMath Adventures: Jungle Addition uses a multi-sensory approach to help kids build basic addition skills.
LetterSchool – Learn to Write Letters and Numbers
Letter School is a fun app that will help kids practice forming capital letters, lower case letters, and numbers in any of three common early elementary writing styles, and it will provide them with opportunities to hear letter sounds and key words as well.
My Felt World: farm, ocean, safari, arctic
My Felt World opens up four imaginative scenes and provides children with a wide selection of felt characters, animals and props to encourage creative visual play.
CreAPPcuentos
CreAPPcuentos is a creative story building app that is perfect for your imaginative story teller at home. With loads of stickers, narration features, and puzzles too, this app is great for children of all ages!
Sparky’s Brain Busters
Sparky’s Brain Busters is a fun game that will entertain middle elementary students while they review concepts from fire safety and Common Core literature, math, science and social studies.
My Town: Police Station
My Town: Police Station is a great free-play app that allows children to explore and play with various characters and items within the police station. Fun, interactive, and easy to use.
Action Graphing
Action Graphing is an innovative, interesting and effective tool to teach basic concepts about velocity graphs to students with a creative and unique hands-on, experiential approach.
MathLab for Grade2
MathLab for Grade 2 is a fun math practice app that will give lots of mixed practice to students on vital skills, many of which are not commonly seen in other second grade level math apps.
Fishing With Grandpa
Head down to lake to build early learning skills while fishing with Grandpa.
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.
Wonster Words – ABC, Phonics, and Spelling
Wonster Words: Spelling with ABC and Phonics by Puzzlingo is an amusing and entertaining way to help children practice reading and spelling words that review basic phonics skills such as word families, rhyming, consonant digraphs, and more.
Funny Directions by Speecharoo
Funny Directions by Speecharoo uses silly sound effects and amusing animations to reward kids for following directions.
Little Big Car Factory Spelling Game
Little Big Car Factory: Spelling Game is an outstanding example of a fun and flexible app that adults can customize with the exact words students need to study or learn to spell.
2015 Edition: Back to School Apps for Kids
Top Educational Apps for Back to School We’ve scoured the App Store to find the top educational apps for kids. It wasn’t easy to narrow it down to just five for each category so in some cases we’ve listed more, especially for those hard to find apps for middle school, high school and special …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – Special Needs
Sometimes finding apps that meet your student’s learning challenges can be nearly as difficult as school, but these app developers have really come through for students, parents and teachers. This selection of recommended apps will help with communication, organization, social skills, reading problems, and much more. Voice Dream Reader Voice Dream Reader is more than …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 7th Grade
The seventh grade year is often a year of big changes-changing classes, new teachers, and higher educational expectations. It’s also time to begin planning ahead for high school challenges. These recommended apps will help your student learn and grow with the best. iBiome-Wetlands iBiome-Wetland is a hands-on, experiential look at three types of wetlands. Players …
Makesto
Makesto takes story creation to a whole new level with the freedom for children to craft, illustrate, narrate and produce their very own stories. Fun for children of all ages!