“Roxie’s Puzzle Adventure” now available in iOS App Store, Google Playstore, Amazon. Beautiful illustrations by award-winning children’s author/illustrator Roxie Munro playable as a jigsaw puzzle for all ages. The amazing artwork with incredible complexity will keep adults, and children, challenged and busy for hours. Addictive! Up to 5 players. For more information, go to Press Release Posted By: “Roxie’s Puzzle Adventure” by OCG Studios Note: App news submitted by app developers are not reviewed by iGameMom. We only verify the… Read more

Gappys Mystery Letters is an educational alphabet app by Spinlight Studio. This app is fun and encourages letter recognition, it also helps your child with hand eye-coordination, writing skills, and matching. All these skills are fundamental keys in a child’d development. Educational games on the iPad are great tools in helping our children in this day and age. It’s how they learn and explore. This is a great choice to sneak in some learning while your child has fun playing on… Read more

I am very excited to see so many great articles linked up this week.  A big theme I saw is a lot seasonal activities.  Fall is a season with tons of learning topics – season change, color change, leaves, pumpkins, apples, rocks, … I am very impressed by everyone’s creativity in finding different ways to help our kids learn! In autumn, we are having tons of leaves? What can you do with all the leaves?  Here is an easy craft with… Read more

Whether we like it or not kids love gaming apps. Thankfully the creators of Gozoa have found a prefect balance between fun and learning with Gozoa Play and Learn Math. Gozoa (a little blue critter) needs the help of your 4-6 year old! A sneaky villain with a cute vacuum cleaner has taken all the star numbers from Gozoa’s village. The only way to get them back is to follow the map of Math challenges and collect gold coins. The storyline continues throughout the game. The little villain pops… Read more

Noisy Frogs! Learn Their Calls & Play the Game with a New Book-App Frogs are cool. They are also LOUD. And each type of frog has a unique sound. Can you imitate the call of a green frog? A bullfrog? A tree frog? An American toad? The new Noisy Frog Book-App, based on the book Noisy Frog Sing-Along, challenges children to learn frog sounds. For more information, go to http://www.dawnpub.com Posted By: John Himmelman Note: App news submitted by app… Read more

Do your kids like to help in the kitchen? Do they like baking?  BakingFun is a very interesting app they will love to play.  Although it is called BakingFun, the app starts the baking process from the very beginning – planting the wheat seeds.  With a series of mini-games, it shows what it takes to have a loaf of bread on the dinner table: planting the seeds, watering the plants, harvesting the crop, milling the flour, making the dough, baking… Read more

FHub is a unique and exclusive file manager, browser app for iPad. It’s the first app on App Store that gives you flexibilities to transfer data from iPad to any other devices (PC, laptops, smart phones, other iPads, or a different tablet devices), and vice versa, wirelessly. For more information, please go to FHub Website. Posted By: Fhun Note: App news submitted by app developers are not reviewed by iGameMom. We only verify the app links before publishing the news. Like to receive… Read more

Today I have a very nice website to share.  It of course works on mobile devices, iPhone and iPAD included.  Oxford Owl  is a fun learning website designed for kids up to 11 years old. It has eBooks, Math games, learning activities ideas, and printables, all are free. To access the content, you need first sign up for a free membership. Then you can choose between Math and Reading. In Reading, there are over 250 eBooks, all can be read on… Read more

Calling all Minecrafters! Show us your favorite Minecraft activity by creating a “How Toon”! Launchpad Toys is teaming up with MinecraftEdu to throw a Toontastic Toon Academy contest to share kids’ Minecraft quests. Create your “How Toon” and submit it to the contest for a chance to win a “How Toons” prize package! Read more on Toontastic blog! Posted By: Hannah from Launchpad Toys… Read more

I always like simulation games, because they offer open-ended play, kids gain skills in problem solving and creative thinking. They are usually easier for parents to get involved and play together with kids.  Some of my favorites are Tiny Tower and Oregon Trail. I am really excited to find out Dinorama is free today.  It is a simulation game designed for kids, with no in-app purchase.  In the app, kids will create and manage their own dinosaur theme park: buy land; build buildings… Read more

Friday 11 Oct is International Day of the Girl. The theme is innovation in education so we will be making Positive Penguins (iPad and iPhone) free on Friday to support all girls, especially those marginalised and discriminated against. If you know of schools supporting girls education and have iPADs please let them know Positive Penguins is free. For iGameMom’s review, go to Emotional Intelligence for Kids – Positive Penguin. For more information, go to Positive Penguin website Posted By: Positive… Read more

Math In Action is a math app designed for kids from preschool to early elementary school.  In addition to math facts, it also addresses sorting by colors and shapes, fine motor skills, and fun math related games. There are 4 sections in the app: Sorting, Addition, Subtraction, and Transformation. Each section has 20 levels, and 5 are free.  There are also 3 game rooms for math related fun: Abacus, Music room, and Play Room. When kids enter a section, there… Read more

Lovable Nott doesn’t want to go to bed; there is so much more to explore! This interactive story starts when Nott is not in the least inclined to go to sleep and it ends when she is totally at peace to close her eyes. In Nott Won’t Sleep, toddlers and preschoolers learn the importance of bedtime rituals. Out in the USA, UK and Canada now. For more information, go to Nott Won’t Sleep Website Posted By: Developlay Note: App news… Read more

Does your child like science? Or are you looking for some science learning material for your curious-minded kids?  Today I found 3 wonderful science apps that are just set to free – the three apps in Science Through Photography series: Life, physics, and Earth. They are available for both iOS devices and Android. They are also available on the web. All three apps are designed with children in elementary school in mind. For younger kids, parents have to read the… Read more