App Reviews
Khan Academy Kids
https://learn.khanacademy.org/khan-academy-kids/ Free, free, free! This is a great app that “inspires lifelong learning and discovery.” You may have heard of Khan Academy before as a resource that K-12 educators use frequently as a way to [...]
Sesame Street Family Play
Sesame Street has developed this app for parents and caregivers to play interactive games with young children. The challenges in the games are designed to be able to use materials found at home and not [...]
Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame
A great resource for supporting the development of social-emotional skills in early childhood! This bilingual (English and Spanish) app is designed to help teach children skills such as problem solving, self-control, planning, and task persistence. [...]
TOCA Tailor (4+)
First, children choose a character to style. Next, they can easily explore ways to alter the outfit that the character is wearing. They can simply tap to change the style of an article of clothing. They [...]
The Monster at the End of This Book
By Sesame Street This is an interactive story in which Grover is afraid to go to the end of the book because there is a monster at the end of the book. Grover tries to [...]
Milestone Tracker
By Center for Disease Control and Prevention Do you work with families? Are you looking for resources to share on development and ways to get families actively involved with understanding their child’s development? Look no [...]
Leap Frog Creativity Camera
By LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. With this app, children can use an iPad or smart phone as a camera and then get creative while playing with their photos. The app allows children to take photographs of [...]
Label Pics
By Andrew Kasper Label pics allows you to label all your materials in your classroom or home in half the time it used to take. Simply select the size label you wish to use (3x5 [...]
My PlayHome Hospital
By PlayHome Software Ltd. This open ended app is geared towards children ages 2-5 and can provide children with an opportunity to explore what it might be like in a hospital. With no right or [...]
Hoopa City 2
By Dr Panda Limited With no right or wrong way to play, Hoopa City 2 fosters problem solving, creativity, pretend play, and learning at your child’s own pace without a focus on competition. Hoopa City [...]
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Creative Play
By Storytoys The Very Hungry Caterpillar is an engaging app where children can explore their creativity at creating different pictures. This app is open ended and there is no right or wrong way to use [...]
Toca Vacation
By Toca Boca Toca Vacation takes you to a vacation spot with four different areas to explore: the airport, boardwalk, beach, and hotel. Children can choose a variety of characters, including both people and animals [...]
Toca Hair Salon Me
by Toca Boca This open-ended app allows children to get creative with hairstyling tools such as scissors, combs, curling irons, straighteners, hair dryers, color spray, gel, props and more! The app allows you to use [...]
The Waterhole
By Graeme Base The Waterhole is a children’s book written and illustrated by Graeme Base. The illustrations are very colorful and encourage the reader to look closer to see all of the wildlife. Readers have [...]
Model Me Going Places
By Model Me Kids, LLC Model Me Going Places is an app which serves as a visual tool to help children learn what to expect when they go to community locations. A child narrates and [...]
Bloomz App
By Bloomz The Bloomz app was created as a tool for teachers to create a digital community and stay connected with families. Functions in this app include sharing updates and photos, posting calendars and announcements, [...]
Cars in the Sandbox
By Thematic This is a fun app for children! They will learn about eight different construction vehicles including the name of the vehicle and it’s purpose. They will have fun with the dump truck, dumper, [...]
Pacer – Pedometer plus Weight and BMI Management and Blood Pressure Tracker
By Michael Caldwell Pacer is a free pedometer app available both on iTunes and Google Play. After downloading the app to his/her device, the user simply places the device in a pocket or purse. It [...]
Water Bears
By Schell Games The Water Bear app gives children the chance to problem solve by figuring out how to connect the water pipes in order to get the water to the water bears. There are [...]
Toca Nature
By Toca Boca Children can design their own outdoor environment with the Toca Nature app. With a touch of the finger, mountains, trees, rocks, and ponds can be added or deleted from the scene. Children [...]
Pettson’s Inventions Deluxe
By Filmundus AB Pettson’s Inventions Deluxe is a very engaging app that helps to develop logic skills. This app is rated for children 4 and up – although children as young as 2 can figure [...]
Visual Routine
By Proteon Software Are you a parent, caregiver or teacher who has a child or student experiencing difficulty moving from one activity to the next or managing routines throughout the day? If you are looking [...]
Draw & Tell HD
By Duck Duck Moose The Draw & Tell HD app gives children the opportunity to create whatever they want on the screen by choosing different art tools, colors, and designs. A child can draw with [...]
Toca Monster
By Toca Boca AB The Toca Monster app gives children the opportunity to explore preparing different foods and feeding the foods to one of two monsters that they get to choose from. A child can [...]
Magic Piano
By Smule Many apps give children opportunities to be successful and do not draw attention to errors. In evaluating if an app is appropriate for young children or not, this is one feature you want [...]