Fun Apps For Kids Of All Ages

◊ Jellytoons Toddler Skills blends education and entertainment into six different games aimed to teach skills ranging from motor development to counting to shape recognition.

◊ National Geographic’s Ultimate Dinopedia: The Most Complete Dinosaur Reference Ever is a complete guide to dinosaurs for your kids to explore!

◊ Speech with Milo was created by a licensed speech language pathologist and combines familiar sequencing exercises with fun animation and lots of imagination. Kids are tasked with putting three cards in order, with each card showing the adorable animals Milo and Melvin performing one of several tasks.

◊ Slice It! wraps its tricky, shape-based puzzle-solving into a cartoonish presentation that’s easy enough for grade-school players to grasp.

◊ Stack the Countries encourages your grade-schooler to flex his or her geography muscles in a physics-style puzzle game (think Tetris with a higher purpose) that combines learning with doing.

◊ Park Math introduces young players to simple math concepts using a silly and fun approach. The app features seven games, spread out over two difficulty levels and center on the concept of animals playing in a park

Older kids:

◊ BrainPOP creates proven and award-winning educational resources including animated movies, interactive quizzes, activities, high-interest readings, and more. Students can explore hundreds of standards-aligned Science, Math, Social Studies, English Language Arts, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Music, and Health topics with their classmates or at their own pace.

◊ Weird But True is the perfect app for anyone who loves odd little factoids about everything and anything? National Geographic’s new app brings this popular book to your fingertips.

◊ Shake & Make instructs you to see a picture, study its layout, and then shake your iPhone or iPod Touch and the pieces will fall to the floor. You are then challenged to race against the clock to put the picture back together in under a minute.

◊ Teen Book Finder by Yalsa makes it easy to find the best books and media for teens, as selected by library staff and educators across the United States! This app offers easy access to the titles honored each year by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library

Reference: Babble.com & coolmomtech.com