Category Archives: apps for kids

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All About Shapes by Tiny Tapps

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all about shapes

All About Shapes by Tiny Taps is FREE again for a limited time for the iPhone/iPad. In this educational app, a genie and her magic lamp helps your preschooler learn about 13 shapes through activities such as songs, tracing, puzzles, and games. This app has a nice variety of practice. I especially like the shape section of the app because each shape is named/spelled and two examples are given. One caution about this app – the cone is not drawn as a 3D object. The other 3D shapes (cube, pyramid, cylinder) are correctly drawn as 3D shapes. Hopefully the developer will correct this error in the next upgrade. 

All About Shapes by Tinytapps - Altaf rehmani

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Nighty Night

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Over 3 million downloads and counting… On sale for $.99 – Nighty Night. This interactive bedtime app for kids 1 – 4 years old is so sweet! The artwork is beautifully done by Heidi Wittlinger, an Oscar nominated artist. Kids click off the lights around the farm to put 7 animals to bed – setting the mood for their own bedtime. 🙂 6 additional animals can be added with in-app purchases. The story easily changes to 12 different languages – without going into the general settings of your iPad. This educational app is really lovely and it has been successful internationally – winning the App of the Year 2011 in the “books category” in Germany & the U.S. It also reached #1 in iPad books in the US, Brazil, Spain, Denmark, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, South Africa, Australia Switzerland and Austria!

Nighty Night! HD – Bedtime stories – Story book for children - Shape Minds and Moving Images GmbH

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Tiny Dentist

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Tiny Dentist

FREE again – Tiny Dentist. Kids get to be a dentist for a day with this educational app that teaches about dental treatments and instruments. Dozens of patients with dental problems need fixed. The “dentist” has the tools to: remove cavities & fill in the hole, remove plaque, use water & air sprays, remove decayed teeth, put on braces, and more! The app was developed to alleviate children’s fear of the dentist. Visual instructions for using the different tools are found in the grown-ups section. Another fun feature of the app is the ability to take before and after pictures of the patient. 🙂 Check it out!!

Tiny Dentist - fantastoonic

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Ask Me! Colors and Shapes

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Ask Me

FREE today to celebrate 1,000,000 downloads of Eggroll Games – Ask Me! Colors and Shapes: Preschool Edition. Over 100 colorful objects are used to teach kids colors and shapes. Simple to use and cute for toddlers.

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ask-me!-colors-shapes-preschool/id689592594?mt=8&uo=4

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The Great Cookie Thief…A Sesame Street App Starring Cookie Monster

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On sale this weekend ($.99) for the cookie monsters in your life 🙂 This e-book for the iPhone/iPad normally sells for $2.99. There’s a cookie thief in town and your child becomes an official deputy to help identify him. Words are highlighted as the story is read so that beginning readers can read along. The story is presented in a movie-like format with the text appearing in talk bubbles. Kids tap an arrow on the right to advance to the story to next page/scene (which I wish loaded a bit faster). There are also surprise animations when kids tap the characters. A really nice feature of this educational app is the Parent Notes section which gives 22 tips on how to use the book with your child. At the end of the story your child can create his/her own wanted poster. Take a picture with your camera or use one from your photo album and let your child decorate it with paints and stickers. Creations can be printed or shared via email, which is a locked option thank you!  My daughter was obsessed with the cookie monster when she was little – she would have loved this app. Worth downloading!

Recommended!

The Great Cookie Thief... A Sesame Street App Starring Cookie Monster - Callaway Digital Arts Inc.

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Sesame Street Apps (starring Elmo)

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Weekend sale!! To celebrate the start of the new season, all Sesame Street educational apps are reduced to $.99 or FREE.

Elmo - ABC

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Here are links to 6 educational apps featuring lovable Elmo:

Download link for Elmo Loves ABCs: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/elmo-loves-abcs-for-ipad/id426747278?mt=8&uo=4

Download link for Elmo Loves 123s: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/elmo-loves-123s/id581585669?mt=8&uo=4

Download link for Elmo’s Monster Maker: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/elmos-monster-maker-hd/id408479571?mt=8&uo=4

Download link for Elmo’s Birthday: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/elmos-birthday/id370005385?mt=8&uo=4

Download link for Elmo’s Story Collection: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/elmo-story-collection/id525593840?mt=8&uo=4

Download link for Potty Time with Elmo: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/potty-time-with-elmo/id525507410?mt=8&uo=4

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The Monster at the End of This Book

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Monster

Monster at the End of This Book – $.99 for the weekend!! If you are a parent/ grandparent of a preschooler, you have probably own this book and have read it MANY times. If you don’t own it, here is your chance to get it for a reduced price. It is a favorite of many children that I know. 🙂
Grover uses a number of inventive ways (ropes, nailed boards, etc.) to prevent readers from getting to another monster hiding at the end of this story. Kids join in the silly fun as they rid of Grover’s roadblocks. This app has won a number of awards: # 1 in Books in the App Store,  2012 Cynopsis Kids Imagination Award – Best Preschool App, one of Babble’s 50 Best iPhone and iPad Apps for Kids of 2011, and 2011 Children’s Technology Review, Editor’s Choice Award. Silly fun for your little ones  – a GREAT educational app! 

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Another Monster at the End of This Book

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Another Monster

Another Monster at the End of This Book – $.99 for the weekend!! Grover uses a number of inventive ways (glue, paper clips, etc.) to prevent readers from getting to another monster hiding at the end of this story. Elmo wants to see the monster so he has kids help him get rid of Grover’s roadblocks. If you are a parent/ grandparent of a preschooler, you probably know that Monster at the End of This Book is one of kids’ favorites. Download this sequel today – it received a 2012 Parents’ Choice Gold Award. A great educational app with silly fun for your little ones!!

Another Monster at the End of This Book...Starring Grover & Elmo! - Sesame Street

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Sesame Street Apps

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Weekend sale!! To celebrate the start of the new season, all Sesame Street educational apps are reduced to $.99 or FREE.

Elmo

Cookie

FREE – Elmo Calls and Cookie Calls. With these educational apps, kids can receive audio /video calls from Elmo/Cookie. They can also dial Elmo/Cookie on their own. The apps simulate Facetime as the child sees a live video of himself/herself in the corner of the screen while chatting with Elmo/Cookie. Parents can activate or schedule calls for a variety of situations – going to the doctor, bath time, learning to potty, etc. Super cute and sure to be a hit with kids who LOVE Sesame Street!!

Download link for Elmo: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/elmo-calls/id467703220?mt=8&uo=4

Download link for Cookie: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cookie-calls/id578982065?mt=8&uo=4

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Toca Builders

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Toca Builders

FREE for a limited time (and for the first time) – Toca Builders, another wonderfully creative app from Toca Boca. Kids (ages 5+) create things with the help of 6 builder friends: Blox, Cooper, Vex, Stretch, Connie, and Jum-Jum. Each builder has unique skills which kids can control with simple gestures. The builders help move, stack, drop, spray, smash, paint, & lift blocks as kids create/construct new objects.The educational app also has a snapshot feature and an autosave feature to share & save the world that your child has created. If your child can imagine it, he/she can build it with the help of the Toca Builders – creative fun for your budding engineer/builder!

Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toca-builders/id652077009?mt=8&uo=4