Art Apps for Kids

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Toy Story: Story Theater

Finally, an app ALL of my kids love! What a joy as a parent to find a place, toy, activity, or game that all of your kids can enjoy together. Well, I bring you an app the whole family can enjoy. What makes Toy Story: Story Theater so great is everything your kids bring to it. [...]

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Free Apps: Collage Apps for Creating Memories

Mother’s day is coming. This is the time we all like to take pictures or putting family pictures together. Today I am sharing two collage apps I have been using, plus one I just discovered. All apps are FREE. They are all very easy to use. You can use them yourself, or you can use them with [...]

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App Went Free: iLuv Drawing Dinosaurs

Is your child a dinosaur fan? If he/she is, you’ve got to get this one – iLuv Draw Dinosaurs is FREE for limited time. The app will show the kids how to how to draw dinosaurs such as T Rex, Stegosaurus, Velociraptor and more. Like other iLuv Drawing apps, such as iLuv Drawing Animals and [...]

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Storytelling with Story Wheel

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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App Went Free: Toca Tailor

Toca Tailor is FREE for limited time, from typical price $2.99. iGameMom reviewed Toca Tailor Fairy Tale, a similar app from the same developer. While Toca Tailor Fairy Tale has two fairy characters for kids to play with, Toca Tailor has four characters. It is an app I would recommend even if it is not [...]

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Off Screen With App: Drawing on Eggs

With Easter approaching, I always felt I should do something about Easter, but we have pretty much out grown all the egg activities. It seems hard to find something about Easter egg to get a boy’s interest. Just couple days ago, I came up the idea of using crayon to draw on eggs, based on [...]

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Email for Kids Encouraging Creativity

Traveling with kids can be one of two things…an absolute joy, or a terrifyingly stressful ordeal. The best thing a parent can do to prevent the latter is to BE PREPARED. Enter my secret weapon—the iPad. On long bus, train or plane rides, we do as many non-digital activities as possible. But the inevitable point [...]

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App Went Free: Van Gogh and the Sunflowers

Van Gogh and the Sunflowers is Free for today only. It is an iPAD app, usually $3.99 on App store. It is based on true events happened to Van Gogh. It tells Van Gogh’s story through a boy named Camille. Camille and his family became friends of a strange visitor to his small town, although [...]

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Create Your Own Books for Creativity

Today’s review is by Iona Burchell, who is a wife and mum of two. In her spare time she is a freelance writer, and has written for online and print media in a range of subjects varying from education to sport to travel. You can find her blog at www.redpeffer.me or feel free to tweet @Redpeffer. Today Iona will [...]

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FREE App: Learn Symmetry from Snowflakes

Did you get snow this winter? Did the kids like playing with snow? Today I want to share a snow related app: Snowflake Station. Kids can design and cut paper snowflakes and learn symmetry while playing. What is even better, the app is FREE. There are three sections in the app: Trace a Flake, Creation [...]

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App Went Free: Da Vinci History

Da Vinci History is a biography book app for kids. Regualr price $3.99, it is FREE for limited time. Introduction on App Store: Quelle Histoire Editions and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux (the federating body of France’s national museums) are delighted to present to you the da Vinci application. PRESENTATION Discover the incredible destiny of [...]

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FREE App: Be Creative – Scribble My Story

Scribble My Story is a FREE creativity app targeted at kids age 3 to 7. It is a book and art creation platform where kids can imagine, create, and share what they make with their parents. When kids open the app, they can pick one of the 5 pre-written books: All About Me, If I [...]

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App Review and Giveaway: Sofia the First by Disney

Sofia the First is a TV movie for preschooler on Disney Channel. Premiered last fall, it received positive reviews. Now Disney is making it into a TV series on Disney Junior. In the meantime, Disney Publishing released the first “Sofia the First” storybook app for iOS devices. Sofia is a girl who suddenly became a [...]

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Create Stories as a Family with Toontastic Jr.

If you followed me for a while, you probably know Toontastic - the creative app that teaches kids about story telling by letting them make their own movies. It teaches the concept of “story arch”, the 5 steps of storytelling. It is a great app. Young kids can create stories using the app, but they may [...]

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Be a Master Painter with PlayArt

PlayART is a very creative art app. Using elements taken from the original art works of five master painters: Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Henry Rousseau, and Paul Klee, kids can create their own master pieces and save the work in the museum within the app. Some example elements are the sunflowers from [...]

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App Went Free: Squiggles

Squiggles is a creative app for young children. It is FREE for limited time. Introduction on App Store: Pictures come to life with “Squiggles!”, a revolutionary new educational drawing app for young children. A child’s simple hand-drawn squiggle can become a bird’s nest, rocket smoke, cotton candy, sheep’s wool, a curly beard, and more! Simply [...]

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