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

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

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

Kids are naturally drawn to all the colorful animals and the adventure of the rainforest. Who better to lead them on a tour through the layers of the rainforest than the Cat in the Hat? The app is an interactive eBook based on the book ‘If I ran the rainforest’ by Bonnie Worth. It has all the amazing interactive features we have come to enjoy from Oceanhouse Media apps. This story finds the Cat in the Hat taking Dick and… Read more

Valentine’s Day is a good time to teach kids about friendship and love. Today’s app is a perfect app on this subject. Wubbzy Loves You is an interactive story app about friendship and helping each other. It is currently free, for limited time. When Wubbzy and Daizy realize no one has received their lovey love friendship cards because Mr. Mailman is sick, they volunteer to deliver the cards to Wuzzleburg’s kookiest residents! Kids will follow Wubbzy and Daizy visiting their… Read more

As I was struggling to find an app to help my 5 year old stay on top of his ABCs while on school break, Niki Words came across my path.  While it can surely help my son, this app can do so much more.  This app comes with settings that make it completely customizable and able to grow with your child. It is a versatile reading app for kids of a wide age range. The app has three areas: Playing with Words, Crosswords, and Magic… Read more

I love apps that allow kids to play freely and spark imagination. It is even better if the app also provides tools for teaching. Imagination Box is an app just like that, and it is free for limited time. When kids start the app, they will see canvas of different colors. They can pick any canvas to start. If they have already used the app, instead of empty canvases, kids will see their latest creations shown on the canvases. Once… Read more

I have been always looking for a good world atlas app to help my son learn about the world, a map not just includes geography information, but also about world culture. I have heard so much about Barefoot World Atlas, and finally got a chance to check it out. I was really impressed and love how the app is made, so was my son. The app is based off the print book of the same title. The print book is… Read more

Preschool Genius Math Booster Zoo is a math app designed for preschool kids to learn fundamental math concepts. With this animal math game for preschool, kids play with the animals in a fun environment, count, compare, and learn. There are 12 games in the app covering various math skills, 3 are free. 1. Counting: kids count the number of animals run into the screen. The numbers range from 1 to 10. 2. Who is Missing: This is a pattern game. Kids… Read more