My Flake is a very simple free app. While having fun designing their own snowflakes and see how the designs turn out, kids will learn about symmetry, especially hexagonal symmetry. Hexagonal symmetry is very different from the typical symmetry kids see everyday, and there is no better opportunity than learning hexagonal symmetry with snowflakes Before you start the app, you might want to go over some basics with the kids. First, if possible, help them observe some real snowflakes. Ask… Read more

Sago Mini Doodlecast is a unique drawing app for kids age 2 to 7. It not only can save your kids drawing, but also their talking. It can serve as a wonderful digital storytelling tool for young kids. Kids can talk while drawing, and the app will record the drawing process as well as their voice, so you can here the young artists’ stories while watching the masterpieces being created. When kids start the app, they will be presented with… Read more

Musical Paint Pro is a very unique app combining music and paint in one activity.  It is fascinating to “hear” what you are drawing.  As described by the introduction on App Store, “Musical Paint Pro provides an engaging multi-sensory experience for all ages”. What you have to do it is simple. Move your finger around the screen as you would drawing a picture. The difference is you are not only painting with lines and colors, but also musical tones.  When… Read more

Do you have a child who likes drawing? Have you tried the new app Drawp? Drawp is a drawing app, but it is much more than drawing. Kids will enjoy creating art, as well as learning alphabet, numbers, and storytelling. First let’s look at the drawing features. I am quite impressed with the number of choices kids have on paint color and stroke textures: solid lines, square shaped lines, blurry lines, or multicolored lines, … There are over 200 colors… Read more

Looking for a fun app for your children for Christmas? It’s not too late to check out the Felt Board Christmas app by Software Smoothie. Kids will have loads of fun decorating various festive scenes, just in time for the holidays. Felt boards are a great way to let your children explore their imaginative side and let their creative juices flow. Felt boards help children to develop story telling skills which in turn are good for language skills and creative… Read more

Petting Zoo is a wonderful cartoon book app, from acclaimed author and illustrator Christoph Niemann. We bought it a while ago and still play with it and still love it.  It is available on both Apple devices and Android devices. The app has 21 interactive animals, each will react to your touch in a different way: the elephant in the bathtub will shower himself if you guide his trunk to point at different body parts, the lion’s mane will change its… Read more

Shape the village is fun shape learning app. It does a terrific job of introducing and then reinforcing shapes to your child. The set is a cute and colorful village of land, sky and sea full of characters made out of very simple shapes. The use of nothing but squares, circles, triangles and rectangles allows a child to see how almost anything can be put together by combining basic shapes. It also makes the characters extra adorable and fun to interact… Read more

Doodlecast Pro is a neat tool that can be used for many purposes. It can be a presentation tool, if you have a project to share. It can be a storytelling app for kids to tell a story. It can be a teaching tool for anyone trying to explain something with visual aid.  It is an app allows users to write or draw on the screen while explaining the drawing or writing. The app records the whole process, including the visual and… Read more

Today I have three wonderful free creative apps for kids to share. They are among the best free apps I have seen – very creative and all can be played by young kids without instruction and help. They are great for road trips and family gatherings. Kids can play by themselves, or play together as a group. All three apps are from Lazoo. Three FREE Creative Apps for Young Kids Lazoo Zoo: Kids feed the animals with different food and watch… Read more

A while ago Tiggly shared with me their new product – an interactive iPAD toy helping kids learn shapes. I was very intrigued by the concept and agreed to review the toy when it is available.  Now I received the toy and I am pleasantly surprised at how well the toy function and how much learnings they put into their three free apps.  If you are looking for gift ideas for kids age 1 to 5, this is a great… Read more

Do you kids like drawing? or doodling?  Would you like to have a teacher teaching the kids how to draw? I remember how hard it was when I was trying to find an art teacher for my son when he was younger. You want to find the right teacher, then need figure out schedules,… Luckily with new technologies, it is not that hard anymore. Today’s app is a how to draw app for kids teaching kids how to draw various… Read more

PicPlayPost is a photo video collage app.  What makes it different is its ability to have videos in the collage and many editing capabilities right inside the app.  It is free today for limited time. Like most collage apps, PicPlayPost has a good selection of collage frames. You can also change the frame ratio. By default, it is 1:1, but you can change the ratio 4:3, 3:4, etc. Within the big frame, you can drag the edge of each picture… 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

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