ImaginMe: Wonderful interactive storybooks starring your child that actually look like your child. Wow.

by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps

One of my kids’ favorite activities is to grab my phone and watch videos of themselves over and over again. And yep, I know tons of you can relate.  So I can only imagine how excited they’d be to see animated version of themselves as the heros or heroines...

Retro postcards go digital with the ScenePast app

by Julie | Best Apps

Even though it’s easy to snap and share plenty of great vacation photos these days, I do miss those fun postcards we used to collect and send during my family trips as a kid. But now with the ScenePast app for iOS, you can actually send those awesome retro...

Kiwi Corner app: More than a thousand kid-friendly crafts and activities at your fingertips

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

About halfway through our summer, my bag of tricks is getting dangerously empty when it comes to creating fun, new things to do with the kids. But one of our favorite arts-and-craft companies, Kiwi Crate, has developed Kiwi Corner, a well-organized app for iOS and...

Plants: The app to not only get your kids outside, but get them learning about that tree they’re swinging on.

by Julie | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Each summer, my kids love to monitor the growth of our backyard garden and keep an eye out for rabbits and deer. This year, we’re also watching flora and fauna on the Plants app — the latest release from TinyBop, maker of the Human Body app that we raved...

Wonderblox brings together old school wooden blocks with that newfangled iPad thing.

by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps

As much as I embrace technology and consider my iPhone another appendage, I still feel nostalgic for the simpler times when tech didn’t rule over everything, especially for my kids. Which is why I find the Kickstarter campaign for a new toy experience...

7 great math apps for summer review. Don’t worry kids, they’re fun.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

My kids are just two weeks into summer break, and they’re so happy to have their days to just play outside and swim and you know, not do math. But since I don’t want them to lose everything they’ve learned in just a few months, I’ve put...

Good educational apps for NOOK? Reader Q+A

by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps

H i Cool Mom Tech, I just got a NOOK for my five-year-old. Any suggestions for inexpensive learning apps? – reader, via Facebook   Ooh, lucky kid you’ve got. Having a fun device like the NOOK is certainly a great way to encourage reading and...

What are the best typing websites for kids to learn to type online? Reader Q+A

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Hi Cool Mom Tech, any suggestions for fun kid-friendly typing apps or websites? – Tiffiny via Twitter How perfect — I’ve just been looking for typing websites myself, to get my own kids to learn how to type online. Especially after the pain of...

My Incredible Body app

by Julie | Best Apps, Educational Apps

School’s almost out for summer where I am, so I’m glad to find an awesome new educational app called My Incredible Body that takes kids — and hey, parents too — on a fascinating journey through nearly all the organ systems in our body and keeps...

Lyka’s Adventure apps and toys brings earth science to life for kids in the most fun way

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

We are so excited about the range of science and technology toys that are being created for our kids these days. I love that my kids are using their minds while they play, learning the whole time without realizing it, and the newest player hoping to make it into this...