I love Nosy Crow’s apps.  Today they set one of their app for free, and just for today.  Axel Scheffler’s Flip Flap Farm is a fun book app designed for kids 7 and younger, but anyone could enjoy the fun reading, no matter of the age. (Note: it is not free anymore. But it is totally worth the $0.99!) It is a continuation of the puzzle idea from another fun app Animal SnApp: Farm.  In Animal SnApp: Farm, kids match… Read more

Millie is an interactive adventure app series for kids. We are big fans of Millie and have been so ever since her first adventure, Millie Was Here. By her second adventure, Millie and the Lost Key, we fell in love with her even more as she roamed and combed vast and mysterious regions (some of which look suspiciously like Central Park in New York) in search of a lost key. She encountered several treacherous obstacles and enemies on her quest and no… Read more

Yuvi Story Aerobics for kids is a cool exercise app for kids. Kids will love doing exercise with Yuvi. It is essentially a set of exercise videos built into fun adventure stories.  Kids will have a full workout while following the adventure with Yuvi. A wizard Zorkus has stolen all the toys in the world and hidden them into his enchanted land.  All the kids are asked to help Yuvi discover the hidden toys and bring them back to the world… Read more

Bugs and Buttons 2 is a collection of mini games for early learning skills, helping preschool and kindergarten kids gain critical early learning skills with fun games.  It is Free for limited time. There are 18 games in the app.  Kids can choose which game they want to play. Each game addresses several early learning skills, such as counting, letter recognition, matching and sorting by various attributes like colors and shapes, fine motor skills, and following directions.  If kids do… Read more

Can kids learn math with music? Today’s app actually just does this! Peg + Cat Big Gig is from the PBS kids show Peg + Cat. It is a cute new series that aims to get preschoolers excited about problem solving. In this app, the stars of the show, Peg and her purple cat use math to ‘save the day’. Young fans will love Peg + Cat Big Gig. While they are rocking out as one of five characters in the show… Read more

Little Poets is a fun app that opens the world of poetry for kids. It offers parents the comfort of knowing that their children are having fun whilst learning and offers children an engaging way of playing with words and developing their poetry and literacy skills. The app developers at enablinGenius LTD provide something that is both original and educational. By introducing the joy of poetry through exploration, children can experience words as fun. Aimed at preschool and Reception/Year 1 and equivalent in… Read more

Do you kids love bugs? If you have a bug lover, you don’t want to miss today’s app – a fun bug app for kids. Grandma Loves Bugs is a learning app for kids 6 and younger. Following the guide from a fun-loving grandma, kids will not only learn a lot about bugs, but also numbers, letters, words, and more. There are ten mini games in the app, covering a wide range of skills, including nature awareness, such as bug… Read more

MoMA Art Lab is a creative art app from Museum of Modern Art. It helps kids learn about modern art: how to create and how to appreciate the art. It is free for a limited time. When kids first open the app, they will go through a tutorial how to use the app, which is very helpful.  Once they finish the quick tutorial, kids are free to explore and create.  The creation part is very intuitive.  At the bottom of… Read more

The app begins at the Disney Princess Pet Salon where kids meet and pamper six pets from various past Disney Princesses. There are dogs and cats of course but we also have a horse and a bunny. They all have clever names with subtle nods to their respective princesses, my favorite being Cinderella’s dog Pumpkin. When kids pick the pet they want to pamper they click on them and get a short and sweet narrative highlighting when the pet and… Read more

In the spirit of Halloween we have an interactive book app to share. My Beastly ABCs is an alphabet book about a boy and his journey through the alphabet and the various ‘beasts’ he encounters. Books are a great way for children to learn words, experience letter recognition, and expand their vocabulary. When mixing a book with the tablet world, it transforms it into something even greater: an interactive educational tool. This book is narrated by Jim Dale. If you… Read more

Underwater Learning Adventure is an ocean themed learning app for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners. It helps kids develop picture and name recognition skills, receptive vocabulary, numbers, counting, memory and executive functioning.  With adaptive learning system, it adjusts the difficulty levels based on child’s performance. There are 3 games in the app: Game 1- counting kids pop the numbered bubbles in the order from the smallest to the biggest number.  It starts with 5 numbers.  If kids correctly identify the order… Read more

Shutterbugs: Wiggle and Stomp is a new free iPad app from Smithsonian Science Education Center and Filament Games. The game teaches children recognize and describe the movements of animals. The game is also available on Smithsonian website for free and the link is provided at the bottom of this post. In the game, children follow a zoo keeper visit animals through a virtual zoo. As they go through the zoo the zoo keeper asks kids to take pictures of animals… Read more

KidZania is a free photo editing app designed for kids. It is a fun one to have around Halloween, because you can dress up kids, in the app, in different customs and put them in different settings. The app offers several themes, such as crazy games, zombies, fire house, and hospital.  Within each theme, there are some themed pictures of different human body parts, such as a picture of someone wearing doctor’s white coat holding a bottle of medicine –… Read more

Lola Panda series launched a new app Lola’s ABC Party 2.  We reviewed Lola’s ABC Party , and this new app is a sequel to the first app. The first app is designed for preschool kids, focusing on letters with some sight words. Lola’s ABC Party 2 is an app designed for kids age 5 to 8, helping kids learn sight words and spelling. In this app, kids will help Lola set up a picnic – they have to help… Read more