Babies and Toddlers

Apps for Kids Age 1-3

Make Pizza on iPAD – Bamba Pizza

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Do your kids like pizza?  Do they like to make pizza?  We have a local pizza restaurant where kids can watch, through a big window, how pizzas were made.  Every time when we eat there, my son has to go watch and there are always many kids line up at the window waiting for their [...]

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App Went FREE: Guess How Much I Love You

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Guess How Much I Love You is an app based on Sam McBratney’s ever-popular book of the same title Guess How Much I Love You. I remember we read the book again and again with my son. I am sure your little one will like the book and this app. It is FREE for limited [...]

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Little Red Riding Hood by Nosy Crow

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I remember reading fairy-tales as  a child. I could read or be read the same story over and over and find so much enjoyment. I love reading and hope I can pass on this passion to my children. The children’s book and app publisher, Nosy Crow, has taken the classic fairy-tale of Little Red Riding Hood to a new [...]

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FREE App: Another Monster at the End of This Book

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Another Monster at the End of This Book, sequel to The Monster at the End of This Book, is set to FREE today, as a result of sponsorship. Now when you open the app, you will see a sponsored ad at the beginning and the end of the story as a way to support the [...]

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Dr Seuss Short Story Collection

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Oceanhouse Media have pulled out another Dr Seuss app from their creative hats. Everyone’s favourite cat in a hat makes an appearance, along with an astoundingly large extended rhyming family including I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today, King Looie Katz about the king of cats, The Glunk that Got Thunk about a little girl who likes [...]

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FREE App: Jake’s Never Land Pirate School

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Jake’s Never Land Pirate School App from Disney Jr. is really cute, especially for a free App. It offers itself (tongue in cheek I think) as Pirate ‘School’ borrowing from other school themed Apps, it has various leveling games laid out in a school room structure. Your child can take classes in: Sailing: a motion [...]

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App Went Free: Montessori Numbers

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Montessori Numbers is designed to help build sound mathematical foundations in children aged 3-7 by using a concrete, visually significant material inspired from the Montessori methodology.  I love the visual association they used in the app: for 100, it is a 10×10 square; for ten, it is a rod with 10 units sticked together.  We [...]

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The Bingo Song – Interactive Sing Along Music App

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The Bingo song is a well known classic children’s song. The Bingo Song HD app brings this song to life for kids to interact with, sing along to, as well as fun animal flash cards that helps make learning farm animals fun. This app can help children recognize the names and sounds of animals, various colors and characteristics found [...]

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Off Screen with App: 7 Apps for Off-screen Fun

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Next week is Screen Free week.  What are you going to do?  Are you going to be screen off completely or just reduce the screen time?  Here I have a list of apps that will help you stay off screen and still have fun. Fetch Lunch Rush:  Kids take lunch order and figure out how [...]

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App Went Free: Just Me and My Mom – Little Critter

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In celebration of Mother’s Day, Oceanhouse Media has set their book app Just Me and My Mom FREE.  It is part of their Little Critter series by Mercer Mayer.  Little Critter was having a special day in the city with his mother.  They had all the fun together, including the things went unexpected: the train tickets [...]

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8 Kids Apps for the Earth Day

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Today is Earth Day.  Are you doing anything special?  On the weekend, we did some yard work and created a yard related project I will share next week.  To celebrate Earth Day, I put together a list of apps that are great to share with your kids on Earth Day.   Hope they will be part of your [...]

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Disney Storytime: Read 20 Disney Stories in One App

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Disney just launched a new app Disney Storytime.  It has 20 Disney Stories all in one app, the largest collection of Disney stories to-date.  Three stories come with the initial download, and parents can buy credits for more books.  The three initial stories are: Toy Story: Starry Night; Tangled: Rapunzel’s Story; and Monsters, Inc: Always [...]

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Free App: Memetales

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A while ago I found a Free reading app Memetales.  It offers 15 free books upon registration and every week there will be a new free book for you.  While I went through some of the books, I found out they are all very well made kids books.  Most books are for kids 10 and younger.  [...]

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FREE Apps: Watch Disney Shows On The Go

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Do you know you can watch Disney TV shows on the go for FREE?  No subscriptions needed.  With the free apps, Watch Disney, Watch Disney XD, Watch Disney Junior, you can watch the Disney shows on your iPAD, iPhone, or iPod, or any Kindle devices.  You can also watch them on your computers.  All you [...]

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The Trip – Little Critter Reading Adventure

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What fun Apps!   The Trip Little Critter Reading Adventure is based on Mercer Mayer’s classic book of the same title and features his incredible original artwork.  It is a story book app with two options. One is to go on a Reading Adventure, two is to just read the story yourself, which is a great option for [...]

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Storytelling with Story Wheel

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Storytelling is a great skill to have.  Not only it fosters imagination, it also trains kids logic thinking, helps kids improve self-expression skills, thus better social interaction.  I have reviewed several story telling apps, such as Toontastic and Toontastic Jr, Educreation, Scribble my story.  Today I am going to share another one we’ve been using [...]

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