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A memory game app that doesn’t get boring so fast. Huge!

Memory games are a great idea–in theory. Those brightly colored cards with rounded edges that fit snugly in grabby little palms are supposed to develop memory, recognition and visual identification skills, so what’s not to like? At least until someone...

Phonics apps for early readers? Reader Q&A

by Christina Refford | Educational Apps For Kids

I (want) to know what some of the best apps (are) for a 4 year old. She’s so interested in learning to read, yet I have no idea where to begin. I think she may have a bit of photographic memory, so it’s hard to tell if she is actually reading, or just has...

Getting tough on aliens this Presidents’ Day

by Cool Mom Staff | Educational Apps For Kids

This Presidents’ Day, between shopping for a car (heh) and going to crowded play spaces with every other kid on their day off from school, find a quiet spot and spend a little time flinging presidents at alien attackers. Don’t worry, it’s way...

One app two app Seuss app new app

by Jeana | Educational Apps For Kids

What parent among us has not relied on the genius of Dr. Seuss to keep our kids entertained with his wacky rhymes and memorable verses? When my kids were younger, I would literally walk around with sentences in my head like, “wet foot, dry foot, low foot, high...

Butt Art a mom can approve of

by Molly | Educational Apps For Kids

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...

Android apps for kids: 3 new ones worth a look

by Jeana | Educational Apps For Kids

Our readers often ask us to suggest more kids’ apps beyond iOS, and while we do cover the great Android apps we find, there’s certainly a discrepancy in both quantity and quality when compared to what’s available for iOS. Well Android users, I think...

Sit. Stay. Read.

by Christina Refford | Educational Apps For Kids

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) best...

Looking Glass – Like “How it’s Made” for kids.

by Jeana | Educational Apps For Kids

*EDITORS NOTE: PLEASE SEE UPDATE BELOW When I was a kid, I used to LOVE those video segments on PBS shows like Reading Rainbow and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood that featured things being made or built. There was one visit to a crayon-making factory I hold in...

What happens when a designer mom creates a preschool app

by Molly | Educational Apps For Kids

When Alma Loveland, well-known and uber-talented illustrator from Ollibird Designs created an education app for preschoolers the results were nothing short of amazing. This new learning app features 5 games that help your littles with their numbers, letters, shapes,...

Buy an app, help a child.

by Delilah S. Dawson | Educational Apps For Kids

We love apps, and we love books, and we love celebrities. But we really love when all three come together to help kids who really need it. Our friends at Ruckus Media Group are partnering with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for their annual Thanks and...

The old Cinderella story gets way cool as an iPad story

by Christina Refford | Educational Apps For Kids

Though I’ve known the story of Cinderella for about four decades, I’ve got to hand it to the talents at Nosy Crow for freshening it up into an entertaining, engaging and interactive story worthy of 2011. Using the same playful attention to detail that made...

National Geographic, now weirding out your smartphone

by Mir | Educational Apps For Kids

Have a kid who loves odd little factoids about everything and anything? National Geographic has been putting out “Weird But True” compilations in book form for years, but now they’re bringing the wackiness to the iPhone, and it’s more fun than...

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