Peter Pan comes to life on your iPad, and we’re Hooked. (Ha)

by Pilar | Best Apps, Educational Apps

My three-year-old is a newly minted Peter Pan groupie. I assume she’s not the only one, which is why this new Peter Pan app has her absolutely, well, hooked, and I have to admit, I’m pretty into this e-book/app hybrid too. The Peter Pan: Disney Classics...

You can’t win this game, and that’s why this game wins

by Lexi Petronis | Best Apps

We love everything about Press Here, the amazing “interactive” children’s book by French artist Herve Tullet. So we are thrilled to see that it’s now an app. And honestly, there’s no better book to make the transition from page to iPad...

Color yourself silly

by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Have you ever sat down to color with your kids? Not just doodle, but really dig in with the crayons, the markers, the familiar smell of construction paper…it’s really quite soothing, actually. I’d never want to give up the essential magic of real art...

Instamatch: Play memory with your Instagram photos

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

I have no qualms about professing my love for the Instagram app, which is probably one of my favorite ways to capture images of my kids on the go. So when I heard about a new app that lets you play memory with your Instagram images, I had to take a peek. You...

The digital board book: Planes, trains, and rhombuses

by Pilar | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Board books are a staple in every new parents’ library, even if we know that they end up mostly as chew toys. So I love that DADA Company came up with a virtual version of the board book that’s equal parts interactive story, animated illustration and...

Ikea’s got nothing on these new digs from Toca Boca.

by Pilar | Best Apps

Swedish app developer and CMT favorite Toca Boca has done it again. They somehow read my lingonberry and minimalist furniture-loving mind, and channeled it into a shiny new app released today that your kids are going to love, the same way they love every Toca app....

Butt Art a mom can approve of

by Molly | Best Apps, Educational Apps

I don’t know what my kids like more–playing with this new CMP fave book-turned-app, or hearing me say, “Here, kids. First draw a butt.” From the people who brought us the wonderful Everything Butt Art book comes the brand new, just launching...

Kung-fu UV Panda

by Delilah S. Dawson | Uncategorized

We love cute. We love smart. And we hate hate hate yucky bacteria, especially the kind that winds up on kids’ toothbrushes and in their mouths.And that’s why we adore this panda, the cutest, newest release from the line of Zapi toothbrush sanitizers When...

Sit. Stay. Read.

by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps

After my kids had mastered mama and dada, the next thing they started saying is When are we getting a dog? Since my three kids are so obsessed with friendly canines, it was a no-brainer that we’d check out a new app that stars man’s (and kid’s)...

Go ahead, play with your food.

by Pilar | Best Apps

I’m usually the one on kitchen duty, but today, my kids served up some fried sausages, microwaved pears, boiled carrots, and um, pureed sardines. Good thing I wasn’t the one eating any of it. Toca Boca, one of our favorite app designers, is all about...