Kids

App Went FREE: Little Red Hen

Little Red Hen is a re-tell of the classic story from McGraw-Hill. It teaches kids the value of hard work. It is FREE for limited time. It works on iPAD only. Introduction from the App Store: The classic fable, retold like your child aged 3-8 has never experienced it before. In this retelling, your child [...]

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FREE App: ABCmouse.com – The Grand Canyon

ABCmouse.com’s Search and Explore: The Grand Canyon is the first title of the ABCmouse.com’s Search and Explore series. ABCmouse.com is a fee-based pre-school/kindergarten website with learning games and books. The Search and Explore Series teaches young children about geography, national landmarks, and points of interest around the world through engaging stories featuring computer mice named [...]

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Educational App Giveaway – Monster Physics

iGameMom has one copy of Monster Physics to giveaway. To learn more about the app, please see iGameMom’s earlier post. Six ways to win: 1. If you are not following this blog AT THIS NEW SITE, “Sign Up” at the top of the left panel to follow the blog. Make sure to click the confirmation link [...]

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Bag It – turning an ordinary activity into a learning game

Bag It is a puzzle game that turns bagging groceries into a challenge. To win the game, you need to have a very good sense of space and relative weights of different items. In the game, you take groceries off a conveyor belt and put them into a brown paper bag. By tapping the objects, [...]

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FREE for Limited Time – Make a Scene: Farmyard

Make a scene: Farmyard is a well designed interactive sticker game that fosters children’s creativity. What I liked the most is the multi-touch feature, which allows more than one kid create an art together. It is free for a limited time! Introduction from the App Store: Make a Scene Farmyard is a fun interactive game [...]

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Price Reduction for Limited Time: Solar Walk – 3D Solar System Model

Solar Walk is an astronomy app from the developer of Star Walk. Currently it is on sale for $0.99 (originally $2.99). Instead of exploring the night sky, with this app, you get to tour the solar system. While travelling through the solar system with your finger, you can tap on any planet you are interested [...]

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FREE App: Stewie the Duck Teaches Water Safety

Summer is a time to teach and reinforce children’s water safety. Stewie the Duck Learns to Swim is a book app that teaches kids safety rules around water. It is designed for kids aged 2 to 6. Through the story of Stewie the duck learning to swim, the app delivers three rules to ensure that young children stay [...]

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Toca Kitchen – A Free Play App

Does your child like to play in the kitchen, pretending preparing meal? You may want to check out Toca Kitchen. It is from the same developer who made Toca Doctor. Toca Kitchen lets the kids explore food and cooking, without mess in your kitchen. When kids start the app, they will see 4 hungry characters: [...]

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FOUR GIVEAWAYS – MindSnacks Spanish, Chinese, French, ESL

iGameMom has one copy of each of the Mindsnacks language app for Spanish, Chinese, French, and ESL (English as Second Language) to giveaway. To learn more about the app, please see iGameMom’s earlier post. How to win: 1. If you are not following this blog AT THIS NEW SITE, “Sign Up” at the top of the left [...]

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The Monster at the End of This Book

The Monster at the End of This Book is an app version of the classic Sesame Street picture book from the 1970s. In the book, the adorable Muppet Grover tries to stop children from turning the pages so they will never reach the end of the book, where he believes there will be a monster. [...]

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FREE App: Feel Electric – Teaches Emotion Expressions

Feel Electric! is another app that teaches kids emotions and language skills. An earlier post introduced “ABA Flash Card and Games – Emotion”, which is designed for babies and toddlers. Feel Electric is design for kids 6 and older, or kids who have some basic reading and spelling skills. The app’s characters are from the [...]

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Monster Physics Makes Learning Fun

Since I reviewed Stack the States and Stack the Countries, I became a big fan of Dan Russell-Pinson, the developer of the two wonderful educational apps. Once I found out he just released another app Monster Physics, I knew I have to get one! Monster Physics is a unique building app that lets kids play with [...]

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Faces iMake – a Creative Art App

Faces iMake is a creative art app and more. It lets kids create arts with objects they see every day, such as brush, banana, plates, and buttons. Kids can re-size, rotate, flip the objects they choose, and then put the pieces together to make a masterpiece. There is no limit to the imagination. The app [...]

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ABA Flash Card & Games – Emotions

This is an app that helps babies and toddlers understand people all have different feelings and emotions. By showing various pictures of people (mostly kids) with different emotions, it teaches kids to recognize different emotions. It has a play mode – the flash cards will be randomly shown and read to the kids. You can also [...]

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How to Manage In-App Purchase?

While looking at the App store Top Grossing list, I was quite surprised to see Dragon Vale was at the top as #1. I was surprised because Dragon Vale is a free app. In fact the top 5 grossing apps are all free apps. How can they make money? Obviously, these free apps get money [...]

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Blokus – A Strategic Game

Blokus is originally a board game, and now is available on iPAD. The game is fairly simple. You link your like-colored blocks to expand your territory. You have to link them diagonally by their corners, with no sides touched between two pieces. You want to place as many of your own color while blocking the other [...]

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