Top 10 iPhone and iPad Apps for Kids
iPhones and iPads offer excellent educational tools and entertainment for kids of all ages. Here is a list of the top 10 iPhone and iPad apps for kids:
1. iWriteWords for iPhone & iPad - Free
This free educational learning tool helps kids write letters of the alphabet, simple words and numbers up to 20 while playing a fun game. Once the word is spelled correctly, kids get to see a cute cartoon and advance to the next level.
2. Pocket Frogs for iPhone & iPad - Free
Go to the pond and collect as many rare breeds of frogs as you can with over 10,000 frogs to choose from. Once you collect your favourites, you have the opportunity to breed, tame and sell! Every frog is different which makes this app interesting and unique. Your children will keep coming back to discover and learn.
3. Rocket Math for iPhone & iPad - $0.99
Improve your kid’s math skills with Rocket Math! This app teaches basic mathematical functions (such as addition, multiplication and division), telling time, handling money and identifying three-dimensional shapes. Rocket Math is excellent for helping children complete everyday math problems. Each math problem they complete successfully earns users money that goes towards building a rocket ship!
4. Story Patch for iPad - $0.99
Encourage imagination with this story creation app! Your kids will have the opportunity to create their own illustrated stories quickly and easily with over 800 illustrations to choose from.
5. Sneezies HD for iPad - $2.99
In this cute game, your kids save cuddly “Sneezies” characters by sprinkling sneezing powder on the bubbles they are trapped in to get them to sneeze (sneezing pops the bubble)! The more bubbles that pop, the more Sneezies are saved.
6. Face Melter for iPhone & iPad - $1.99
Load a picture and watch your face stretch in all different directions. Your kids will be laughing hysterically as their face is contorted beyond recognition!
7. Color & Draw for Kids for iPad - $1.99
This app for iPad allows kids to draw, colour and decorate. Your kids have the option of using the app like a colouring book. With over 50 pictures to choose from, they can colour in drawings of landscapes, animals and professions. The photo decorator allows users to draw photos and decorate them with stickers.
8. Max – The Mouse with Almost Perfect Manners for iPhone & iPad - $1.99
This app tells the story of a mouse named Max Nibblington with a love for cheese. The story teaches kids that nobody is perfect. With full animations and an audio recorded narrator, kids can easily follow and read along.
9. StoryBuilder for iPhone & iPad - $3.99
StoryBuilder is just how it sounds – children create their own story. While it may seem simple on the surface, this app has many advantages including improving knowledge of story structure (beginning, middle & end), articulation and sentence formation.
10. Stories2Learn for iPhone & iPad - $13.99
Stories2Learn allows users to create personalized stories using photos, text and audio messages. Parents to kids with autism or learning disabilities find this app helps improve visual and social skills.
A word about safety: Because they do provide kids with access to the internet, it’s important to play it safe by supervising your child while they handle your mobile device. Mobicip Kid-Safe Browser, which can be downloaded from Apple iTunes to filter inappropriate content and, as you would with the family computer, sit your kids down and discuss internet safety.
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