Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Play at Home with Daniel is a fun app from PBS Kids where kids can do pretending plays. If you aren’t familiar with Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, it’s a cartoon on PBS that is based off the old educational show “Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood”. My son enjoys the cartoon and loves waving to all the characters with Daniel in the opening scene with the famous “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood” song. When he saw this app he was… Read more

Toca Builder is another app from Toca Boca. It is a Mindcraft-like building app for kids age 5 and up, slightly older than a typical Toca Boca app’s target age.  It is free for limited time on App Store. Like other Toca Boca apps, it is all about free play, there is no goals or scores.  Kids simply get in the app and start building.  There are 6 builders in the app, each has a unique skill set and own… Read more

It is time for Mom’s Library again. For the past two weeks, we shared Creative Alphabet Learning Activities, and creative pattern practice ideas.  Today we are sharing some creative artistic activities. I enjoyed today’s features, because they used stuff we see every day and re-purposed them for artistic play.  Isn’t this what art is about? Great artists are those who have special eyes and minds, discover or connect things most people don’t, present their discoveries in a way that will enlighten people… Read more

Fix The Factory is a new free app from LEGO. LEGO calls it a puzzle game, but I view it another cool game app teaching kids about programming. The story of the game features a humanoid robot fixing the factory, where battery packs are dropped in all the wrong places.  The players’ jobs are to write instructions in code blocks to guide the robot move to the right spot, pick up the mis-placed batteries, and put them back to the… Read more

Do you like iSpy type of game? I did not like it much till I found a couple very nice iSpy type apps like Little Things Forever, something beautiful and fun.  If you have played Little Things Forever, you may agree it is designed for older kids and adults, preschool kids might find it too difficult.  I am happy to introduce today’s app, which is also a beautifully illustrated iSpy app, and it is particularly designed for young children age… Read more

Puzzingo is a set of educational puzzles for toddler and preschool age kids.  We introduced one of their apps Kids Puzzles Puzzingo.  PUZZINGO Food Puzzles Game for Toddlers & Kids is another one from them, and it is free for limited time. Upon entering the app, kids are asked to break a gift box to see the puzzle pieces that they can pick from to decide which game they want to play – it could be refrigerator, dining room, or… Read more

I always get excited when it is Mom’s Library time, as you never know what is going to be shared each week. Last week, I featured Creative Alphabet Learning Activities, today I am sharing creative pattern practice ideas. Pattern recognition and creation are important skills for preschool kids to master.  It is not only one of the fundamental math skills, but also contributes to broader social development. Through pattern recognition, children are able to make predictions about what comes next… Read more

Welcome back to Mom’s Library. Last week, we featured 4 creative teaching ideas, today we have some more creative teaching ideas, but are more focused on learning letters. Measured Mom is one of my favorite learning website, today she shared a reading curriculum. From her article, I learned a couple new ideas in teaching alphabets, such as sorting the pictures by the objects’ starting letters, and grouping the rhyming pictures together.  To learn more ideas, make sure visit the article. I like the idea… Read more

It is time for Mom’s Library again.  Today I am featuring 4 creative teaching ideas. What do you do with the junk mails?  Throw them away?  Next time, you might want to save some, for some scissors fun with junk mail. I am sure kids will have fun with these disappearing shapes!  Kids will learn shapes, science, and fine motor skills. What a fun way to teach numbers, letters, and shapes with these water balloons! I just love this – build… Read more

Welcome to Mom’s Library. We had a lot articles linked up last week. If you have not visited, make sure visit Mom’s Library from last week. Today I want to feature some ideas on helping kids enjoy readings. There are a few articles shared last week about encouraging reading and recommended books.  Do your kids like reading?  Mine does.  We tried from his early years to read with him a lot and do activities based on books together.  Although nothing… Read more

Mo Willems is best known as the award winning Author and illustrator of  kid’s favorites like Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, the Elephant and Piggie series and the Knuffle Bunny books. He now also has  a brand new app! Pigeon Presents: Mo on the Go! where you try to fill your sticker vault by playing mini games, drawing and dancing! The fun includes: Draw with Mo:  Use your imagination to turn a scribble from Mo  into your own doodle. A child can also play with a friend with one… Read more

Night Zookeeper is, in the simplest terms, a drawing app.  However, the approach it takes to get kids to use the entire scope of their imaginations in their drawings makes it so much more than that.  The fact that parents can directly inspire and facilitate their children’s creativity through this app is just a bonus. First, parents will want to register so they can open the Teleporting Torch Dashboard.  This enables parents to send missions to their children and also upload… Read more

It is time for Mom’s Library again.  This week I found several articles on very cool color based activities. The first one is to dye fabric with Kool-Aid.  I can’t believe how beautiful the colors turn out. Got river rocks in your yard? See how these girls turn them into beautiful fruits. Who says color is only about art, check out this science experiment of color and the beautiful colors it produced. Finally, here are 20 ways to use liquid watercolor.  Can… Read more

Playroom-Lessons with Max is an educational app from lgromatic. It’s designed with pre-school children in mind. What it offers that’s just a little bit different is the way in which parents are able to protect children from inadvertently gaining online access while using the app. The Max in question is a little kitten and he’s the star in the five games contained within the app. Designed to re-inforce early learning skills, the five games involve a search for hidden toys… Read more