Tag: "Toddlers"

Solve Tappie Puzzles with Your Child – iPad Game Review

By Jillian | November 15, 2011 | No comment yet

Tappie Puzzles Take a trip around the world with your child, solving puzzles along the way. Begin with each puzzle containing 6 pieces and when you have mastered those, flip the switch and enjoy harder 12-piece puzzles.

Puzzles are something almost every child is familiar with, giving your child the chance to play something fun that doesn’t have a huge learning curve. Combine this with static puzzles that first begin with an animation and you have a winning combination.

By Jillian | November 10, 2011 | No comment yet

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Who took this photo - Zoo I get excited whenever I hear the developers at Portegno release a new app, and Who took this photo – Zoo is no disappointment.

The app is very simple to use yet teaches your child to harness their observational powers and exercise their matchmaking and comparison skills. As a parent it thrills me when you can disguise an educational opportunity as pure entertainment.

By Jillian | September 28, 2011 | No comment yet

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There are few things in the world that toddlers love more than animals and music and Little Farmer has both. Designed with babies and toddlers in mind, this app teaches your child while allowing them to do the other thing they so desperately want: to be allowed to touch mom or dad’s iPad.

Beautifully illustrated with watercolor style graphics, this app is very simple yet effective in helping your child to learn.

By Cristi | April 4, 2011 | 1 comment

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The thought of a three-year-old running across a tile floor holding an iPad is enough to make most anyone cringe. If you’ve got little ones at home using the first generation device, then the Big Grips Frame (case) and Big Grips Stand are a must.

The fun colored Big Grips Frame and Stand are big, squishy and perfect for little hands to grab and hold! Its foam material is flexible, provides plenty of cushion and easy to use with your iPad. Frame installation is a cinch. Just line up the cutouts with the appropriate buttons and ports on your iPad, slide one end of the device into the case and pull the remaining edges over the sides. Once your iPad is tucked safely inside, it’s ready to take on everything your toddler or preschooler can throw at it.

By Cristi | February 16, 2011 | 3 comments

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Need to entertain your toddler while you’re trying to cook dinner? Interactive Seek-and-Find Picture Book: My Animals is a great new app that’s sure to help you out. Created by Berlin-based wonderkind interaktionsmedien, this group of parents is committed to creating apps with high quality content for kids.

Interactive Seek-and-Find Picture Book: My Animals includes three hand drawn scenes full of interactive features. Kids will enjoy exploring the farm yard, searching for animals in the forest and discovering everything the zoo has to offer. Simply tap on different objects in the scenes and find out what happens. Make sure you don’t overlook anything so check the “What’s up?” button on the bottom right for hints. Once kids have finished a scene, they can swipe the screen or touch one of the arrows at the bottom of the page to move on to the next one.

By Cristi | February 8, 2011 | 3 comments

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There were high expectations for the iPad when it was released last year and it has definitely grown into a great educational tool for kids. Parents often look to the thousands of apps available in the App Store to teach, as well as entertain, their children. Whether kids are learning their ABCs or tackling Calculus, there’s something out there for everyone. Here are a few educational iPad apps your kids may enjoy.

By Cristi | December 15, 2010 | No comment yet

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With four iPad apps under their belt now, mytales digital released another toddler friendly app in the App Store today. One Snowy Day is the perfect app for this time of year and little ones will enjoy playing it during those bone chilling days spent indoors.

Like the One Rainy Day interactive app for toddlers, One Snowy Day is based on an early learning book from independent publisher tiger tales. Together with Penguin and his friends, kids will enjoy this wonderfully illustrated counting app and all that it has to offer.

By Cristi | November 29, 2010 | No comment yet

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This Black Friday / Cyber Monday Weekend App Contest features four apps from developer mytales digital. Little ones will enjoy bedtime even more when you incorporate these lullaby apps into your nightly routine and once awake, they’ll have lots of fun interacting with the whimsical little Duck in One Rainy Day.

We have one app bundle to give away and it includes the four apps listed below. Entering our contest is easy, just follow the steps after the break and try your luck!

Hush, Little Baby: a Read a-Long, Sing-a-Long Lullabies
Sleep, Baby, Sleep: a Read a-Long, Sing-a-Long Lullabies
Rock-a-bye Baby: a Read a-Long, Sing-a-Long Lullabies
One Rainy Day: a Read-Along, Play-Along Story about Colors

PadGadget has partnered with top iPad app developers to bring our readers some of the latest iPad apps for free during this holiday weekend. Be sure to check back on a regular basis through Monday. We’ve got lots of contests planned and you don’t want to miss out!

Enter the contest after the break »

Meet the Animal Friends – App Review

By Cristi | October 17, 2010 | No comment yet

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I was searching the App Store for cool new apps this morning and stumbled upon Meet the Animal Friends for iPad from developer Little Brain in the New and Noteworthy section. If you’ve got toddlers at home who love to play on the iPad, you might want to add this app to your kid’s collection.

Meet the Animal Friends combines four cute animals, colorful graphics and a kid friendly interface into one app. Kids will enjoy four animated characters : Lion Chef, Princess Kitty, Dairy Cow and Sporty Monkey. Launch the app and animal friends appear in windows on the facade of a brick building.

By Cristi | October 13, 2010 | No comment yet

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App developer Punflay has a couple of new titles to add to its growing collection of iPad apps. Kandy Fish and Interactive Baby Sound are two new fun educational apps for preschoolers and toddlers.

Kandy Fish – This new preschool app teaches shapes, colors, pattern recognition and more with colorful fish and easy to play games. Kids can practice colors by painting different pictures of fish or by dunking fish into the matching bucket of paint. Move on to math and kids will complete patterns by putting the correct fish into a fish bowl or trace shapes to get the fish to swim around them. FInally, tie all the activities together and reinforce what’s been learned by reading the Kandy Fish book.

By Cristi | September 2, 2010 | No comment yet

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Looking for an interactive story to enjoy with your toddler or preschooler over the three day weekend? If so, Thumbelina for the iPad from Touchoo is worth a look. Based on the children’s classic by Hans Christian Andersen, this modern interpretation lets readers lead Thumbelina on her journey to find happiness with the use of their iPad and its touchscreen.

Colorful illustrations of little thumb-like people and animals, along with interactive adventures on each page, will keep kids engaged as they participate in the journey of Thumbelina. It’s easy for kids to follow along as the story is read and they move through the text. Little hands on the screen will show kids how to help Thumbelina with different situations and what to do to get the job done.

Written by Keren Essigman, this interpretation of the story lets readers enjoy rhyming text in several different ways: listening to the story, reading the story or recording their own version. Kids will get a kick out of this interactive story as they open pretty flowers, move lilly pads down the river and rescue Thumbelina from dark holes. In addition to fun adventures for children, parents have options for four different languages, sound effects and other settings. They’ll find high quality original narrations in English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese with additional translations in the works.

Thumbelina for the iPad is a cute colorful adventure fun for toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy with their parents. It was a finalist in the App Star Awards and is available in the App Store for $1.99. Enjoy it with your little ones this weekend!

Support a Good Cause When You Buy ABC by Paul McDougall for the iPad

By Cristi | July 30, 2010 | No comment yet

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The ever increasing number of apps in the App Store includes many great educational eBook apps for children but ABC by Paul McDougall for the iPad is a bit different. If you purchase McDougall’s iPad app, you’ll not only get a great app for your child but also help support the donation of print copies of the same book to children’s hospitals and libraries in need. McDougall uses a portion of the proceeds from the sale of each eBook and traditional book to support kids in hospitals and libraries.

Perfect for toddlers learning their letters, this great little book uses small brightly colored creatures and funny sayings to help teach kids their ABC’s. From “Ashley who’s always asleep” to “Zeke, who escaped from the zoo,” your little ones will love the charming quirkiness of all the ABC creatures. Flip through the pages at your own pace and enjoy the simplicity of this educational app.

Check out the ABC by Paul McDougall app for $0.99 in the App Store now and support a good cause at the same time!

By Cristi | July 19, 2010 | No comment yet

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Little kids love to have fun and be silly! The “Silly” iPad apps by Brighter Minds Media will entertain your little ones as they play with animals and learn about numbers and letters. Silly Animals, Silly Letters and Silly Numbers all have large brightly colored letters, numbers and pictures, in addition to a kid-friendly interactive design. These three apps are sure to keep kiddos entertained and having fun.

Kids play Silly Animals and enjoy a whole gang from Fancy Fox to Dirty Dog. Watch the animal move across the screen and then interact with them by tapping on their picture or name. Each animal has it’s own unique descriptive name and actions to match.

Silly Letters and Silly Numbers are also lots of fun for kids. They have a good time while playing with letters or numbers, as well as the funny figures. Silly Letters displays the letters in the alphabet one-by-one along with crazy characters and quirky sayings. Silly Numbers goes from one to twelve teaching kids to count as they move from screen to screen.

Toddlers and young children will be tickled silly and have loads of fun as they play along with the Silly iPad apps.

Alphabet Jungle for iPad – First Look

By Cristi | July 4, 2010 | 1 comment

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Looking for a cute but simple little app for your toddler to learn their ABCs? Check out Alphabet Jungle for iPad by developer Jason Jardim. This new app features Upper and Lower case letters, pictures of different animals for each letter of the alphabet and fun animal facts. Alphabet Jungles lets users choose from three options of play: the ABC song, Auto Play and Play (you select the letters you want to see and hear).

Kids will enjoy listening to the sound of a child’s voice saying the letters. Move along at your own pace using “Play” mode or select “Auto Play” and follow along and automatically move through the alphabet. Think your child is ready to move on to bigger and better things? Then let them practice writing letters too. Just tap the “Practice Your Letters” button and a writing tablet appears. Letters are easy for kids to write using just their finger and you’ll save lots of paper having them practice on the iPad.

One neat feature offered with this app is the option to use a VGA out adapter to connect your iPad to your TV which presents a fun new experience.

This is Jardim’s first version of Alphabet Jungle and he is already working on new ideas for additions. He welcomes feedback and suggestions from users, so feel free to contact him via email (JSquared AT macspots DOT com) if you have comments. You can add Alphabet Jungle to your list of toddler apps for $2.99.

Screen shots after the break >>

Fish School HD for iPad – App Review

By Cristi | June 24, 2010 | No comment yet

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Yesterday I reviewed Wheels on the Bus from Duck Duck Moose and today I’ve got another great app from them, that’s been featured in “New and Noteworthy” and “Staff Favorites” in the App Store. Fish School HD is an educational app with an underwater twist that helps toddlers and preschoolers learn letters, numbers, shapes, colors and more, all while having fun.

Kids dive into Fish School HD quickly and will want to spend hours playing its eight fun educational activities. They’re able to learn letters, numbers and shapes as they watch fish swim on and off the screen and take form. They easily move forward or backward through the screens with the swipe of their finger.

When they’re tired of “school work”, they can have a little fun with all the colorful fish during the play time and colors activities. Touch and hold a fish to watch it grow larger during Playtime or select your favorite fish in Colors and all the fish in that same color swim onto the screen. Differences and Matching will challenge your preschoolers when they’re asked to identify the fish that doesn’t belong or play memory matching with fish.

Regardless of the activity they choose, your toddlers and preschoolers will enjoy learning in this fun fish-filled school!