Tag Archives: apps for kids

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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

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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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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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Peekaboo! Guess Who?

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peek

The full version of this educational app is currently FREE again for the iPhone/iPad. This app is designed for the youngest iPad users – the peekaboo players. 🙂 Kids hear an animal sound and have to guess who is making it. The full version has 4 levels – farm, ocean, circus, and jungle. In baby mode, kids listen to the sound then tap the door to reveal who is making it. In kids mode, they listen to the sound then guess who is making it.  If you have a little one that loves peekaboo, check out this cute and colorful app!

Peekaboo! Guess Who? - Bacciz

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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