Kid’s Apps

What the h*ll is Geocaching?

11 May 2012 1 comment

The best way I can describe it is an outdoor treasure hunt using GPS. You download an app onto your phone, which is £6.99 from the iTunes Store but the rest is free. Then you navigate to the location of the cache (container) and hopefully find it. Inside the container, depending on the size as [...]

Ipad Apps for Kids: Magic Ink Books

27 March 2012 0 comments

I stumbled across this app, Magic Ink: Tinkerbell and Friends, the other night and I think it’s great. Kids have the opportunity to either read the story themselves or have it read to them. But this is where the magic begins, with a simple swipe of your finger you go from this….. To this, revealing [...]

iPad App Review: Eurotalk Maths Age 3-5

21 February 2012 1 comment

I have to say I tutted when I was first asked to review this app as the first Topic is free and then you have to pay for the others. However, my daughter is loving it and keeps going back to it again and again. She only has the Sorting and Matching Topic. I think [...]

Scribble Press: Kids Ipad App

24 January 2012 3 comments

I’m absolutely loving this iPad App ‘Scribble Press’ and the best thing of all it’s FREE! Scribble Pad allows children to write, illustrate and share their own stories. They can use a story template as a starting point (e.g. If I were a Fairy, All about my Dad, If I ruled the World or The [...]

Music to our ears! Kids’ Ipad App Reviews

10 January 2012 1 comment

My hubby and I are pretty much tone deaf. The only exposure our daughter really gets to music is the radio playing in the background or in the car. We have abandoned music classes because, if this is hereditary, it’s probably better to spend our money elsewhere. However, I was recently sent the following two [...]

Kid’s Ipad App Review: Word Wall HD

6 January 2012 4 comments

When I was at school we learned the alphabet by singing the alphabet song but this a major ‘no-no’ now, as it is all done by phonics. Even though I’m a former teacher the whole phonemes, word families and CVC words is all a bit of a mystery to me, as I taught slightly older [...]

iPad Apps for Kids: Fun Felt

29 November 2011 0 comments

A friend of mine, with the technical ability, would like to develop an app for kids so I’ve been trying to help him come up with an idea. The other day, after spotting my daughters Fuzzy Felts, I thought they would be a great idea for an app. However, by the time I text him [...]

iPad Apps for Kids: Park Math HD

22 November 2011 2 comments

I was looking for an iPad app for my daughter that introduced basic addition and subtraction using picture stories and came across Park Math HD (£1.49) by Duck Duck Moose. I’ve come across their apps before and liked them. I do like this one as well; there are activities for counting, adding, subtracting and sorting [...]

Ipad Apps for Kids: Puppet Pals HD

15 November 2011 1 comment

Yet, another fantastic Ipad app recommendation from my mate Danny Nicholson from The Whiteboard Blog. I absolutely love this app Puppet Pals, it’s also available for iphones but can’t help thinking the screen would be too small and fiddly for little fingers. Simply choose your characters, a background, resize the images and when you’re ready [...]

Ipad Apps for Kids: Jellybean Count

7 November 2011 0 comments

I absolutely love this Ipad app, Jellybean Count and to boot, it’s FREE! It was recommended by my mate Danny Nicholson from The Whiteboard Blog. Children count the different colour of jellybeans and then use the same number of fingers to input their answers. For example, if there are 4 green jellybeans, they need to [...]