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

When my son was young, we read together every day, at least at bedtime.  Once he gets to school age and is able to read by himself, we have not been reading together as much, not to mention read aloud together.  I wanted to re-start our reading together time, and found poetry being great to read aloud with kids.  They expose kids to sound and rhythms in addition the contents itself, and there are also many imaginary activities you can… Read more

Based on the hilarious book Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and the series that developed after that, Disney has created the app entitled Don’t Let the Pigeon Run This App! The book by Mo Willems has been given recognition on the New York’s best seller list as well as landing a spot on the National Education Association’s “Teacher’s Top 100 Books for Children” list; so it’s no surprise this is a great app. This app allows your child… Read more

Bugsy Kindergarten Reading School is a learning app for early readers to learn and practice alphabet, phonics, and spelling.  If you have followed iGameMom for a while, you may remember another Bugsy app – Bugsy in Math Kingdom.  Bugsy Kindergarten Reading School features the same character – the cute hamster Bugsy.  It is currently free for back-to-school.  If you have an early reader at home, this is a great one to have. The interface of the app is very simple. … Read more

Looking for a great app that makes learning about fruits and veggies fun? Then this app is just what you’re looking for. It’s for those early iPad/iPhone users: ages 18 months to 5 years. This puzzle app exposes children to various fruits and veggies. The game focuses on name recognition of fruits and vegetables as well as motor development while the child swipes the puzzle pieces until the image lines up. Puzzles are a great tool for helping children develop… Read more

I have introduced several book reader apps in the past, Sylvan Dell, Reading Comprehension Camp, to name a few.  Each reader app has its own unique features and reading range to attract different users.   Today I have another one I want to share, and of course, it has its own unique features that are going to be very attractive to many families.  It is so far one of the book reader covering biggest age range – from 2 to 12, it… Read more

Sneak a Snack is a fun interactive book app telling a story about a boy Alex who tries to solve the mystery of his missing snack. Alex comes home after school and fixes himself a huge snack. Just when he is ready to enjoy the food, his mom calls for help from upstairs. When he comes back to the kitchen, his snack is gone! He investigates all three pets, but none of them admits taking the snack. … It is… 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

We’re big fans of Richard Scarry so anything we come across of his in app form is very exciting. One of our personal favorite pages of Richard Scarry’s Best First Book Ever is of all the different silly cars. There’s a pickle car, a pencil car, even an egg car. So imagine our excitement when we discovered this app is about spelling out the different kinds of cars stopped at the stop light? Once you spell them correctly, the car… Read more

Kidaptive, the creator of the award-winning Leo’s Pad app, has released a new educational app called Leo’s Letters.  This free game app allows kids to search for letters formed by stars in the night sky and then form three, four, or five letter words. When kids start the app, they will see a night sky full of starts.  They have to find the letters in the sky. They can search for letters by moving and spinning the sky. When they find a letter, they… Read more

Do you use apps for kids handwriting or other fine motor skill practice? I don’t know if you ever noticed, I have not reviewed any hand writing apps. There are quite a few out there, but I felt tracing with one finger on the screen is completely different from holding a pen writing on paper. I don’t see tracing with finger require many finger muscles at all. Call me old fashioned, I still want my child to be able to write well with a pen… Read more

Video Touch is a series of apps from the creator of Sound Touch, but instead of the flash cards showing real life photographs of animals, instruments, and objects, it shows short video clips.  For a review of Sound Touch, you can visit Sound Touch – A Flash Card App Toddlers and preschools love to be able to watch animals move, music instruments be played, and transportation vehicles move about. This app is a step above the original Sound Touch by putting… Read more

Goodnight Moon was our favorite bedtime book for years.  I was really happy to see it on App Store. Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd created the book 65 years ago.  It is a children’s book you will always like to read and enjoy the reading no matter how old you are.  This app version stays very true to the original print book, with added interactivities to some images. There are 3 ways to read the book: Auto Play, Read to… Read more

AHhhhh! This is my kind of App. I love a good leveling educational app with a printable worksheet component that meets Common Core Standards. Nothing in life makes me happier. The Phonics Munch App gets your little one on the path to early reading with a cute story about Chomper the Bear who eats letters, consonant and vowel sounds and rhyming words…and he is just SO cute. The program reinforces what it teaches by using several different methods to create… Read more