The Threes! app. Prepare to meet your new obsession.

by Julie | Best Apps

You might think that my dark circles are due to my kids, or work, or simply insomnia, but they’re not. I’ve only got Threes! to blame. The cool new Threes! app for iOS has got me absolutely obsessed. Slide numbered tiles around a board, and combine tiles...

MoMA Art Lab App: Modern art for everyone

by Kristin | Best Apps, Educational Apps

The new The MoMA Art Lab app is for every parent who knows that kids are the original modern artists. Think about it: a child’s artistic interpretation of the world is not always realistic or literal, they love to use non-traditional materials (macaroni,...

Ken Burns’ new app takes his docs to digital

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

Full disclosure before talking about the new Ken Burns app: I’m a big Ken Burns fan. For nearly 40 years, the award-winning historical documentarian has been telling beautiful, expansive, influential stories on film about everything from the Brooklyn Bridge and the...

Stella and the Space Bears ebook for kids. Because we can never resist a wonderfully geeky heroine.

by Julie | Best Apps, Educational Apps

As much as I love fun, educational apps for kids, I might get even more excited about finding great books to add to our family iPad. Especially original stories without any licensed characters trying to sell me on a cartoon to match a doll to match a fast food...

Learning to count (and laugh) with the Lonely Beast 123 app.

by Shari | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Lucky kids. In the olden days, we learned numbers from boring flashcards, but our fortunate progeny have a sweet monster floating in a bathtub wearing a shower cap as their instructor right from an iPad. Just as we loved The Lonely Beast ABCs for alphabet learning,...

3 of our favorite Presidential apps for Presidents’ Day

by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Along with enjoying a nice day off from school, I want my kids to spend at least some time on Presidents’ Day learning about our Commanders-in-Chief of yore. So I’ve rounded up three great apps for Presidents’ Day that will teach them a few things...

Sphero 2.0 brings a whole new meaning to playing with a ball

by Jeana | Tech Toys

Mamas of my generation will immediately recognize the phrase: Mom always said, don’t play ball in the house. Funny how decades after those Brady Bunch days, I am still reminded of that phrase every time I see my kids–yeah. Playing ball in the house. But...

Zoobean kids’ book subscriptions go digital. Way to get more kids reading.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

If you haven’t tried Zoobean yet, you’re missing out. It’s a great resource for personalized kids’ book recommendations and now we’re excited to announce that they’ve just launched a digital membership option, making it that much...

Duh! Books: Educational eBooks for kids who want to know more than their parents can tell them. (We can relate.)

by Julie | Best Apps, Educational Apps

I feel lucky that my daughter is a voracious reader, but her curiosity has a downside: She always wants to know more. So I also feel fortunate to have discovered Duh! books. These fiction e-books, geared toward kids from second to fifth grade, are an awesome...

Introducing young kids to the civil rights movement with a Rosa Parks app

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Educational Apps

My six-year-old came home this week asking about Rosa Parks, impressed with what she knew of her story and, very shocked by it. I feel so fortunate thats she’s growing up in such a diverse community, that she couldn’t even comprehend a world where her best...