Shaftesbury, creator of the Disney hit TV show Life with Derek, in collaboration with XMG Studio, just released the first series produced specifically for mobile devices.
The ten-episode show, geared toward preteens and “tweens,” incorporates a music, video and design studio for a truly interactive experience.
Ann Can’t Sleep is a kids book app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch that pairs entertaining text with clever animation to tell the story of a little girl who just can’t settle down and go to bed.
Do your kids refuse to go to bed at night? Ann’s night time routine might look familiar to some of them. As Ann struggles to sleep she picks different toys, hoping that the next choice will be her ticket to dreamland. The animation shows why each of the various choices is keeping her awake.
Those of you with a little person in your house are likely very familiar with Thomas the Train. He’s become a staple in our house which means this app was an instant hit.
A series of activities including an in-app coloring book, puzzles and matching memory game make this a fun app for younger children especially.
The real fun of Christmas is experiencing it with your children. Santa’s World is a fun Christmas-themed game that encourages learning through task-based activities.
Whether you are helping to get Santa dressed for his big night full of gift deliveries, helping the elves to build toys in the workshop, learning the alphabet by identifying toys that correspond to each letter, or trimming the Christmas tree by matching colorful ornaments and lights, your little one will get more excited about the holiday season. The challenge I pose to you is to try and avoid feeling a little extra Christmas spirit when you are done!
Yesterday we posted a contest for the Nomad Brush Compose and today we’ve got the newly released kids version to offer our readers. The Nomad Play paintbrush stylus is handcrafted from maple and designed with kids in mind. It has a contoured grip perfect for little hands and a soft rubber ferrule to prevent scratching on the iPad screen.
Auryn – Van Gogh and the Sunflowers is a lovely app based on the popular book by Laurence Anholt that is intended to be an “inspiring introduction” to the artist, Vincent van Gogh.
You might feel like you’ve seen a lot of interactive storybooks for your iPad, but I guarantee this one will blow your mind.
Long before I ever had an iPad, my children and I had a shelf full of books by Sandra Boynton. Boynton’s vibrant and clever board books are cherished by children and enjoyed by parents. I never get tired of reading them to my family which is something I can’t say about any other titles.
Knowing this, you can imagine my delight when I found my first Boynton-themed iPad app. I am just as delighted today as I evaluate and review the latest addition to her iOS library: Barnyard Dance.
A Princess Tale advertises itself as being an app that is created by parents for parents with kids. Whether your child is the prince or the princess, this app is entertainment with an opportunity for learning.
There are three fair maidens to choose from, each one being told by the narrator that they must first tidy their room and do their chores before they can go to the ball. Whether your child helps to put toys on the shelves and toy-box or cleans the flowers by placing them in the vase, the story begins by teaching children that fun things can happen after their work is done.
The developers at Portegno Apps understand how to make apps for young children and the Halloween Coloring Book is no exception. The reality is that all children love coloring, especially when it means they get to play with mom or dad’s iPad! The beauty for us as parents is there is no mess and no waste.
Better yet, they can keep coming back to try a different color scheme or technique and get a lot of use out of this app.
My daughter is just turning 3 and this is the first year she really has a solid understanding of what’s about to go down on Halloween. She’s chosen her costume (a completely adorable Tigger suit) and at least 10 times a day asks me when she gets to put on Tigger and take her pail around to the neighbors saying “trick or treat” and gathering candy. She says the words, but I still get the impression she doesn’t fully understand just what will happen other than it involves candy and that is always a good thing in her books.
To celebrate Halloween, KidsMag has released a special edition issue of their popular iPad-based kids magazine, KidsMag.
The Ogglies are very worried about their dinosaur, Firebottom, and decide to throw him a birthday party to celebrate and cheer him up. All together with their friends Rocky Red, Blinky Blue, and the Chinese girl-dragon Leek-an-Lentil, the oggliest party in history is thrown and they have invited you too!
The story is delightfully silly. The Ogglies have positively poopy ideas and everything gross is actually good. Children (and adults alike) will laugh as they see all the pictures and hear all the goofy words and backwards phrases.
I don’t think there is a single parent out there that doesn’t somehow reference The Ugly Duckling story at some point in their careers. We all love the message it sends making it a classic for a very good reason. The developers at TabTale have taken this Hans Christian Andersen story and turned it into a very entertaining and engaging app that offers a lovely learning experience for your child that I am pleased to have been able to review.
Modern reinterpretations such as Robert Sabuda’s Movable Mother Goose have helped teach post-Millennials that Jack jumped over the candle stick, yet there is always a place for traditionally illustrated versions of these classic rhymes. Mother Goose Original 1 by Our House Interactive retains the book’s original illustrations when it recasts thirteen of these timeless poems in an application for the iPad.
However, as anyone that caught the video of the frustrated baby who mistook her magazine for an iPad, today’s kids need more than a few couplets to hold their interest.
Developed by a certified Speech-Language Pathologist, House of Learning bills itself as a tool for learning and playing. Using a series of activities within the app, you are able to work directly with your child to develop and improve their language skills.
Let’s face it, we all know what various words mean but it isn’t always easy to communicate those to your children when you are trying to help them learn. What seems obvious to us may not be to them. This app works to bridge that gap while keeping children entertained so they don’t know they are hard at work!
Teaching your child the alphabet can be a difficult task. My daughter has the ABC song completely memorized from start to finish but we are still working on actually identifying the individual letters, which is why I was very interested in taking a look at VivaKids ABC.
Designed by internationally renowned artist, author and educator Ulrike Kerber, this app is filled with animations, music and voices making it very engaging.
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