FREE today from Duck, Duck, Moose – The Wheels on the Bus. Cute, interactive version of the song for your little ones.
Category Archives: apps for kids
Peekaboo: Find Hidden Fun UFO Characters
FREE today for your iPad – Peekaboo has kids looking for 7 cute little aliens who have come to explore our planet and play hide-and-seek! There are 10 colorful & beautifully illustrated scenes for kids to explore. There is a hint mode to help find the characters if needed. Each alien makes its own unique sound when it is located. And… the aliens hiding spots change each time the game is played. Very cute and sure to delight little ones. 🙂
Kids Shop
FREE for this weekend only! Kids Shop is another money app for the iPad from the developers of Coin Math – see my previous review. Kids Shop takes off where Coin Math left off by including bills (ones, fives, tens, & twenties) when asking kids to pay for items or make change. 5 levels of shopping and 5 levels of making change make this app suitable for multiple ages. There are hints and voiced instructions for younger learners. Coins can be tapped & turned so that kids can see both the fronts & backs. Kids can also tap and drag coins into groups for easier counting. The only thing that could make this app better is if it kept track a child’s/children’s progress. This app is well done and provides a lot of great practice. Download it today!
Common Core Standard:
- 2.MD.8 – Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately.
Highly recommended!
Millie’s Book of Tricks and Treats
FREE today = Millie’s Book of Tricks and Treats. The Millie books feature a very cute, lovable dog and kids LOVE them! If you own the other two: Meet Millie and Millie and the Lost Key, you will want this one too. This book presents a series of silly tricks and treats featuring Millie – nothing scary for little ones. Every time you read it, the randomly generated video clips change so the book is always different.There is also scratch-off picture & hidden sticker on every page. Love this series!
Highly recommended!
Paddle Duck in Where is Carrie Cat?
Normally $3.99, now FREE for a limited time – Paddle Duck is a fun interactive story for your toddler (18 months+). Your child will follow Paddle Duck from sunrise to sunset on his adventure to find Carrie Cat. Â Along the way Paddle Duck needs some help – counting to three, knowing which way to swim, looking in the barn, etc. Stars appear around the area your toddler should tap to activate the interactivity. Two catchy little songs are incorporated into his adventure. The words for these songs and suggestions for interactions with your child are found in the parent’s learning notes section. The narrator’s voice can be changed from a British accent to a US accent. Colorful artwork, appealing & very polite characters, a rhyming song & a song to encourage dance movement – this app has it all. Nicely done for little ones!!
Highly recommended!
Solar Walk – 3D Solar System Model
FREE today only, this app for the iPhone/iPad has you zooming through space to learn about our solar system and the Milky Way galaxy. Winner of a Parent’s Choice Gold Award and chosen by Apple as one of the Best App in 2010 & 201, this 3D model of the solar system will fascinate kids of all ages. This app features information about each of our planets (general information, figures, internal structure, & science missions), the planets’ moons (general information & figures), comets, dwarf planets and asteroids. Information and pictures of 8 satellites (such the Hubble Telescope and the ISS) are also included. 8 movies to explain some of Earth’s phenomena are included: Size Comparison, Earth’s Cycles, Solar Eclipse, Moon Phases, Tidal Phenomena, Major Circles of Latitude, Constellations, and Cassini-Huygens. The app permits you to zoom in for a close up view of each planet, moon, etc. or zoom out to get a view of our entire galaxy. If it’s in our solar system, you are going to be able to view it and learn about it with this app! Beautifully done 🙂
Highly recommended!
Old MacDonald HD by Duck Duck Moose
FREE for a limited time from the highly acclaimed, Duck Duck Moose series – Old MacDonald interactive book. This book has 12 pages with over 35 interactive activities for toddlers – Â flip a cow, drive a tractor, work a bulldozer, etc. The song can be sung in English, French, Spanish, Italian, or German or played by a piano trio, cello, violin, or kazoo. There is even an option to record your child/you singing the song. The words on all pages are in English – even when it’s being sung in a different language. Lots of fun surprises in this version too – a cow reading the Moo Yorker, “Pig”casso, a small dog eating a large sandwich, an alien in a spaceship, etc. Very cute and very fun!!
Highly recommended!
Squiggles
This FREE app for the iPad is adorable! Kids are encourages to draw squiggles to create: rain clouds (to water flowers), waves (to help fish swim), wool on sheep, cotton candy, etc. Once the squiggles are drawn, they press GO and the drawings come alive. The app includes an interactive storybook and an animated short which introduces the characters – Bobu, the monkey  & Miku, the rabbit. It also includes 14 drawing pages (just add the squiggles) as well as a blank page for your child to create his/her own pictures. Tools included are stickers, markers, paint, chalk, a ketchup bottle, as well as 10 colors & a mystery color wheel. Work can be saved into the gallery of the parents’ section by pressing the piggy bank. This app is super cute!! It encourages children to be imaginative & creative – it’s one of my new favorites 🙂
Highly recommended!
I Can Xylo – A Nursery Rhymes Teacher
The app was advertised as being FREE today instead of $1.99. The promo says, “NOW INCLUDES OVER 20+ TOP NURSERY RHYMES OF ALL TIME”  but the reality is that the download only has one free song – Mary Had a Little Lamb. You can also get 2 bonus songs – if you go to their Facebook page. If you click on any other songs, it wants you to upload to the pro version. That’s where you get the 20+ nursery rhymes. In Song Mode, you can play & listen to a song or you can play the song by following the highlighted keys. You can also record the song as you play it then play it back. The FREE version does allow you to exit song mode and play the xylophone on your own. Just like in Song Mode, you can record as you play then replay it. The app is nicely designed and has a good tone to it. You may want to try it while it’s FREE.
The Mouth: Talking Doodles
Just in time for Halloween – have your child create his/her own talking monster. This app is FREE for a limited time for the iPhone/iPad and it is extremely simple to use. There are 12 mouths (each with a different voice), 12 eyes, 12 accessories (horns, hair, whiskers,etc.), 12 backgrounds. Once your monster is created, it will listen to you and repeat everything you say.  You can also poke it (around the eyes) to upset it and poke its mouths to make it laugh. And if you are an adult who is creating a monster, you can be upload your creation to your Facebook wall. Kids will LOVE this app!!
And teachers – project the monster on a whiteboard to give directions to you class or let kids have their monsters present for them. Lots of creative uses are possible 🙂
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