Mini Monet is a fun art app for kids. I like the fine artistic taste of the app and its many different options for kids to explore different aspects of the art activities. When kids open the app, they will see a street scene set in Paris. They will see the Eiffel Tower in the back, and many young artists on the street. Tapping on any of the artists leads kids to an art activity. Kids can choose Color, Draw… Read more

Today I have another fun app for kids to learn shapes and colors. Shapes and Puzzles is a fun puzzle app. Kids put puzzle pieces of various shapes and colors to form a picture. Kids not only learn shapes and colors, but also fine motor skills. Upon opening the app, kids have 4 groups of puzzles to choose from. Each of the 3 groups has 60-80 puzzles, while one group is designed for younger kids to pick the shapes as… Read more

Do you play chess with your kids? Do they like it? I know chess is a good game for kids to learn strategies and critical thinking, but I don’t know how to play beyond some basic moves. My son learned chess from school’s chess club, but at home, he has no one to play with. I am very happy to find this chess app that he can use to play at his level. This app is free today, as claimed… Read more

If you are looking for a fun way for kids to learn their times tables or math facts in general then, you will be interested in our recent discovery. Math Slicer, by Thumb storm, turns kids into Math ninjas. It is a fun math game for math facts. On opening, the app players can choose to work with Multiplication, division, addition or subtraction. Each operation shows a visual list of fact families to practice. During game play, math facts will… Read more

I liked all Nosy Crow’s apps. When I saw The Three Little Pigs by Nosy Crow is free this week, I know I can’t miss it.  The Three Little Pigs story has been made into many books and apps, but this 3D interactive storybook is so well made and you should really get it, especially when it is free for limited time. There are three ways for the kids to read the story: Read and Play, Read to Me, and… Read more

Help kids learn manage time is not easy. Do you ever have trouble asking your child finish a task within a certain time? When you tell a child “you have to get dressed in 5 minutes, or we will be late” and then watch him play toys while getting dressed, what will you do? It is really hard for young children to understand how long 1 minute is, and it is very easy for them to get distracted. I hope… Read more

Recently I find another online learning website offering cool math games with 10 questions free everyday, and it is completely functional on iPad and iPhone. It’s called IXL. It also has a free math app offering the same free math practice service. What is interesting, the website and the app are not connected if you use them as a guest, and you can have 10 practice questions free on each, so you can get a total of 20 questions free every day. What… Read more

Is fraction a hard concept to learn? The basic concept may be not, but when it comes to comparison and calculation, it can get very confusing sometime. What is a better way to teach and reinforce the fraction concept than playing games? Today I am sharing cool math games of fractions: Slice Fractions. It is also the number 1 featured app on App Store for Best New Apps. What is interesting about Slice Fractions is that it combines math and… Read more

DuckieDeck Family Photo app is an app that lets kids explore their creative side while creating personalized portraits. Whether it’s creating a face that resembles their own family member, a friend, or someone that only lives in their imagination it is a great app that encourages creativity and lets a child show their expressive side. This app targets skills such as fine-motor development, hand-eye coordination, and expressive art. With the options to choose facial expressions this app can also aide… Read more

Cyberchase Shape Quest is a cool math game app from PBS Kids, with a focus on geometry, spatial reasoning, and problem solving. It’s based on the Emmy Award®-winning series, Cyberchase. When I tried to play my first game on this app, I was told to print out a game board.  At first I was a little perplexed but I simply moved on to the games that didn’t require me to print anything because I wasn’t at home.  Once I did… Read more

Science concepts can be taught at a young age. The challenge is to make the concepts easy, fun and safe for the young kids to play with. Piiig Labs offers cool science experiments for kids, and it does a wonderful job in letting kids to do the experiments hands-on on their own, safely.  The added bonus – science experiments without the mess! Piiig Labs offers a digital playground for young children to explore science concepts in an old fashioned way… Read more

Phonics apps are tough to create. They need to be able to keep a child engaged without distracting them too much from the learning at hand. Froggy Phonics app is based on an award-winning board game. In the app kids are engaged as they hop a cute frog from lily pad to lily pad in search of a correct word. Even as an adult, I must admit it’s a pretty good time. At the bottom of the screen kids will find… Read more

Blue Planet Tales is a book app for kids. It is a collection of non-fiction books for kids based on history with a humanity focus. All stories are based on historical true facts. Instead of learning history with those very dry facts, Blue Planet Tales make these history facts and meanings into interesting stories that kids love to read and to care about. One of the stories is about Laika, the first dog, and the first living being, who traveled in… Read more

We have been using Explain Everything as a digital storytelling tool for a while. I really like it for its flexible features that allowing us to use it for different projects. Explain Everything is designed to be a screencast, interactive whiteboard, and presentation tool for iPad and Android that allows users to record audio and video, annotate with drawings and shapes, and animate objects all at the same time. Projects can be played back and edited within the app or… Read more