Fun Educational Apps for Kids: Reviews, Daily Deals and Giveaways

Wee Kids Stickers – A Fun & Easy Matching App for Preschoolers

How good are your children’s matching skills? If they could use a boost,;Wee Kids Sticker provides practice in matching objects with their outlines. If they’re already pretty good, this might be a fun app for them to use independently to challenge their skills. At Fun Educational Apps, we appreciate apps that offer educational content using a kid-friendly game format.

Adagio : The Musical Touch for Kids- A Child-Friendly Piano App

Adagio (pronounced ah-dah-zhee-o) is a musical term that means, “music played in a leisurely manner.” If you can picture a child who is mesmerized by the notes played on a digital piano, you can see why creating a child-friendly piano app is such a marvelous idea. Adagio: The Musical Touch for Kids has simplified the experience of playing the piano down to the most basic level.

Toonia Storymaker- Unlock Your Child's Creativity - App Review

There are stories within every child, even if those stories are as simple as “I broke my toy and I cried” or as complex as “The unicorn was running with the princess in the forest, and then the birds came, and they all played for a while.” Children’s narratives help them talk about the world around them and stretch their imaginations. Toonia Storymaker turns these narratives into mini-books that can be saved and shared. At Fun Educational Apps, we applaud developers who show us new ways to use technology to unlock a child’s creativity, so we award our latest Top Pick to Toonia Storymaker. Fun Educational Apps TOP PICKS

5 Best iPhone and iPad Drawing Apps For Kids

The present technological era got lot offers to make even kids equipped and occupied with ideas. It’s quite natural that little ones find it very difficult to sit down without getting into naughty affairs. Glad news for all parents out there who were looking up to develop creative outlook in their kids! Check out these trendy attention-capturing drawing apps for your tiny tot. Fun Educational Apps TOP 5 for …

Pizza Factory - A Tasty Top Pick Game App for Kids!

Move over baking apps, the Pizza Factory has come to town.  Slice, dice, roll, and create your own custom pizzas as you move through the game board unlocking secret ingredients in this new Top Pick.  Adults and children alike will love this tasty app. Fun Educational Apps TOP PICKS

Puppet Workshop - TOP Creative App for Kids

A brand new top fun, creative and interactive app just hit the app store!!! Puppet Workshop, a new Fun Educational Apps TOP PICK that will engage and entertain your kids allowing them to create virtual puppet while developing all their creativity via an easy to use and bright interactive interface. Fun Educational Apps TOP PICKS

Creativium - Paper Theater: Creative and Storytelling App for Toddlers

Creativium - Paper Theater: is a cute creative app where your kids create fairytale scenes on virtual paper and play with them. A well design app that will keep young children busy with 10 characters, 40 animation and 25 decoration.

Kids! - A Bouncing, Swinging, Flipping, Good-Time App for Toddlers

Kids! is a virtual playground where animals bounce around, fish swim in and out of sight, bugs do cartwheels, and baby birds hatch out of eggs.  For being the kind of app that toddlers love, for being colorful and kid-friendly, Fun Educational Apps gives Kids! a Top Pick.  

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Leo's Pad - Unique Interactive Learning Experience for Kids

Leo's Pad Appisode 1 is a brand new app by developer Kidaptive, Inc. and a top pick as a unique learning experience.  The interactive video-like app puts young learners into the story as they go to a birthday party with the main character.  With a continuous video interspersed with a variety of preschool level interactions, the app easily holds the viewer's interest. Fun Educational Apps TOP PICKS

Leo's Pad is the first appisode of a series created by the developer Kidaptive.  Created on the basis that children learn best when immersed in the experience, this app addresses a number of basic concepts all in a seamless viewing encounter.  The app loads initially to a menu with each appisode available (only one is currently available with the next release scheduled for January 2013).  Appisode One - Gally's Birthday is free and a great trial run.  The graphics are absolutely outstanding and reminiscent of high quality HD video.  The characters are detailed and engaging and easy to connect with.

 

Join an eight year old Leonardo da Vinci as he seeks out his pet dragon and gets ready for a birthday party.  Watch a clever little video with seamless transitions to engaging basic concept activities.  Begin by identifying basic colors and shapes as the dragon plays hide and seek.  Next help Leonardo create a telescope for his friend Gally's (Galileo) birthday.  Identify and put together basic shapes in a telescope puzzle.  Show off your artistic side by creating a birthday card for Gally using a painting game complete with stickers.  Solve a simple math problem to launch Leonardo into the sky to help him fly.  Lastly, use the telescope to find letter constellations in the sky.  Pull the letters out of the sky and create simple three letter words using them.

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This appisode has simply stunning graphics and the video is really well done.  The characters are almost 3D in their animation and the video is great.  The seamless transitions to the mini-games are wonderful, keeping young learners fully engaged in a learning activity - all in the scope of watching a movie.  The characters of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo and the details that make them great characters really appeal to me.  I loved that Leonardo was creating a telescope for Galileo and uses his flying machine to get to the party.  The basic concepts covered by the mini-games are also really good - though I'd love to see them last just a few questions longer.  I see kids being completely engaged in the video and think that they will easily sit through a few more skills questions before moving on to the next part of the video.

 

Overall, Leo's Pad is a top pick as a unique learning experience built into a high quality movie.  Young learners will be fully engaged in the video and will easily participate in the learning games without even recognizing that they are working on educational skills.  I'm anxious to see more from the developer including future appisodes, and the parent dashboard that is advertised as in development.

Leo's Pad Appisode 1 is available for download via the iTunes App Store - iPad and iPad Mini Apps - Free for a Limited Time! 

If you like Leo's Pad ....  Appisode 2 (Read review) and 3 are now avaiable via in-app-purchase. 

 

 

This app was reviewed by Sarah Emerling, a mom, a special education teacher, and a technology coach. She is a self proclaimed nerd with a passion for incorporating technology into education and you read her findings at The iLesson Lady

 

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Sophie's Drawing: Cute Learning How to Draw App for Kids!

Sophie’s Drawing is a cute drawing app for your kids to learn how to draw step by steps basic pictures. With the help of Sophie’s magical pencil your children will have fun drawing 14 different pictures. Give it a try, it gives kids confidence and you will be surprised at what they can draw! 

Zimmiz - The Next Generation of Interactive Toy (and possibly something more)!

It’s a toy, it’s an app, it’s Zimmi. What in the world is a Zimmi, you ask?  I was curious about that myself, so after a little research, I was able to discover some interesting facts and make it a Top Pick.    

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SirMania-Play & Learn: Top Activity App for Toddlers and Pre-K

Fun Educational Apps is committed to finding the best apps available for children.  This time the search led us all the way to Norway, where we found this gem.  SirMania- Play & Learn, created by Tom Greger Knutsen, is a popular educational app in Norway.  We agree that it is well worth checking out.  

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