Category Archives: apps for kids

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FriendStrip Kids Pro

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Friendstrip

FREE for a limited time – FriendStrip Kids Pro, a cool photography app that turns your child into the star of his/her own comic strip! This educational app is easy to use. First kids pick one of the app’s 85 scenarios (created by true comic book artists) from categories such as fairy tales, space, stuffed animals, dinosaurs, and more. Frame by frame they set up a scene, strike a pose, and snap the picture. Before you know it, your child is the start of his/her own comic strip! Fully customizable texts give the app even greater flexibility. Final creations can be shared via email or Facebook – there are parental controls for this option.

This app would be so much fun to use in a classroom! It would help kids understand the elements of a story (setting, characters, problem, sequence of events, and conclusion) in a simple and fun way. And kids would LOVE presenting their comic strips to their peers. Super cute!!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/friendstrip-kids-pro/id687451368?mt=8&uo=4

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Sago Mini Bug Builder

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bug buider

FREE for a limited time – Sago Mini Bug Builder, an educational app for toddlers/preschoolers. Kids create, hatch, and play with cute little critters. They can transform 1 of 8 shapes into a colorful bug, add some color, then bring it to life. They can also add a funny hat, feed it a snack, clean up its mess, and take its picture. Kids can make unlimited number of unique bugs using this app – very cute & creative!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sago-mini-bug-builder/id657821775?mt=8&uo=4

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Guess How Much I Love You – Interactive Episodes

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Guess How Much I Love You

FREE a limited time – Guess How Much I Love You – Interactive Episodes. From Australia comes this wonderful app based on the book Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney and inspired by the animated TV series created by SLR Productions Pty Ltd. The book is beautiful – one of my all time favorites. Originally published in 1994 in the UK, it has sold more than 20 million copies in 37 languages. It is truly a book not to be missed!! That being said, this app conveys the same sweetness that makes the original story so special.

Kids join Little Nutbrown Hare in 2 interactive episodes – Can You Touch the Stars and Snow White Hare. Designed for 3 – 5 year children to explore with their parents, the episodes are integrated with simple games & puzzles. At the end of each episode, Big NutBrown Hare and Little NutBrown Hare express their love for each other. Don’t miss this one – it is SO sweet!

Guess How Much I Love You - Interactive Episodes - SLR Productions Pty Ltd

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Toontastic Jr. Shrek and Toontastic

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Shrek

Toontastic Jr. Shrek is FREE for a limited time. This storytelling app, from the creators of Toontastic, has kids creating their own Shrek cartoons. They start by choosing a beginning, middle, and ending. Then they animate the story by moving the characters and recording their voices at the same time. The educational app features 12 classic Shrek scenes and a cast of characters to get kids started. If kids would like to create a story with friends or family, they can utilize StoryShare, a new feature in Toontastic Jr. which is very cool! It enables kids to talk & create stories with friends or family anywhere in the world!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toontastic-jr.-shrek/id632359329?mt=8&uo=4

And if you haven’t tried the original Toontastic, do yourself a favor and check it out….

toontastic

Parents and teachers love Toontastic and kids can’t stop creating! Named by the NY Times as one of Top Ten iPad educational apps of 2011, Toontastic is a fabulously creative FREE app for kids. This app allows kids to draw, animate and share their own cartoons AND it teaches them the elements of a story! Kids are able to use backgrounds and characters from the app or create their own with the drawing tools that are provided. The basic app is FREE but there are several in-app purchases available. Final creations can be shared online via ToonTube, Toontastic’s global storytelling network. Over 2 million cartoons have been created in over 150 countries. Unleash your child’s creativity with this great educational app!!

Here is a link to more information: Toontastic: Play, Create, Learn on the iPad!.

Not only are the possibilities for using this app are endless but a child’s work can be shared with parents, grandparents, other classes, etc.

Toontastic - Launchpad Toys

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Stumpy’s Alphabet Dinner

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Stumpy

FREE again for a limited time – Stumpy’s Alphabet Dinner, an educational app that teaches toddlers/preschoolers the upper case letters of the alphabet. Kids feed Stumpy, a pink hungry monster. In easy mode, kids feed him the letter that matches the one on his belly. In hard mode, kids have to listen for the letter that Stumpy would like to eat. Simple & cute!

Stumpy's Alphabet Dinner - Roo Roo

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Flat Stanley

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Flat Stanley

FREE for a limited time – Flat Stanley. Teachers around the world have been using the Flat Stanley Project since 1995 to help children learn about travel, cultures, and the love of books. This educational app makes creating, sharing, & sending Flat Stanleys easier and safer for teachers, kids, and parents. Kids start by creating their own Flat Stanleys/Flat Stellas with different shirts, pants, and shoes etc. Then Flat Stanley/Stella is ready for adventure! Kids can send, receive, and share their favorite photos and Flat Stanleys. Teachers and parents will be happy to know that any content uploaded through the app is the monitored and approved by the “Flatter World” team members. If you have ever participated in the Flat Stanley project, you will want to check out this app. Kids LOVE being involved in this project – it’s really fun!!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flat-stanley/id382161936?mt=8&uo=4

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Sleeping Genius Baby

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sleeping

FREE today – Sleeping Genius Baby, an app which plays peaceful music for baby’s nap/sleeping. According to the developer, this app helps in 3 ways: it gets your baby to sleep faster, it improve your baby’s sleep quality, and it improves brain function. When you first open the app, it downloads the HD audio files. Then you can choose bed time or nap time music for your child. Information within the app includes: tips for success, how it works, benefits, and more. Or you can read that same information on the developer’s website: Home – Sleep Genius and decide for yourself before your download it. Many parents try to establish a consistent routine at bedtime for their children. The nice thing about using an app is that it is portable. You can easily take your bedtime music with you. 🙂

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleep-genius-baby-calming/id669390302?mt=8&uo=4

 

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Popboardz

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Popboardz

Recently updated and FREE for a limited time – Popboardz, a productivity tool that normally sells for $4.99.  Popboardz makes it easy to organize, store, and present information. Each board is a grid with 16 spaces for content so that all of your PDFs, images, videos, websites, can be arranged on one screen. Unlike other presentation tools, Popboardz makes it easy to customize your presentation to meet the needs of your group. Just click on the grid space that contains the example, information, or link that you would like present next! It’s easy to skip around. This app would be fabulous to use in the classroom. A teacher could organize all his/her digital resources for a unit on one board. That board can be saved so it is always ready to present! It is also easy to edit and/or rearrange boards so that lessons can be tweaked as new resources become available. Students could also use Popboardz – to organize information, to present projects, to give reports, and more. What a great educational app!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popboardz/id563989511?mt=8&uo=4

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Trading Cards

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trading cards

Fabulous educational app!!! ReadWriteThink’s Trading Cards is powerful FREE app developed by the International Reading Association. This educational app provides a unique way for kids to share their understanding of topics, generate their own study aids, create a fictional world to use in their writing, make their own trading cards, and more. There are 7 categories of cards available within the app: fictional person, real person, fictional place, real place, object, event, and vocabulary. Kids start by choosing a category and typing in the title of the card. Each category has specific questions which help kids create information-rich trading cards. Images can be added by using the device’s camera or by accessing pictures in the photo library. Kids can also sort their cards into collections such as characters from a book, heroes or villains, landmarks, the 50 states, vocabulary by subject, etc. The possibilities are endless! Cards can be shared via email, saved to the photo library, or printed on a wireless printer. And… the kid appeal is tremendous. Kids will LOVE trading their cards with their classmates 🙂

Highly recommended!!

Trading Cards - International Reading Association

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Writing Wizard – Kids Learn to Write Letters

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Writing

FREE for a limited time – Writing Wizard – Kids Learn to Write Letters, a fun educational app that teaches kids to write manuscript letters. The app teaches kids to print letters using 3 of the most common handwriting styles – Zaner-Bloser,  D’Nealian, or Handwriting Without Tears. Kids start by tapping a letter. That letter is named and its sound is given. The app then demonstrates how to trace the letter. Then kids trace the letter using animated stickers with sound effects. After tracing the letters, they can interact with them. The app can be customized for the child’s level in a variety of ways – letter size, difficulty, show/hide model, allow to stop between key points, etc. It also provides detailed reports for teachers/parents which include the ability to replay and export the child’s tracings to view kids’ progress! But the BEST part of this app is the ability to create your own word lists (and record audio for each word) – a perfect way to practice spelling and handwriting at the same time! This app is fantastic for so many reasons – highly recommended!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/writing-wizard-kids-learn/id631446426?mt=8&uo=4