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...

Domo Animato, Mr. Roboto

by Pilar | Best Apps

There’s nothing my kids like more than being read to at bedtime. Whether they’re dog-eared or digital, calming, whispering affairs that encourage them to catch their forty winks are the usual go-tos, and Robot Blue From Planet 22 is no exception. In clever...

Playing house, iPhone style

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

Now that you’ve all got those shiny new iPhones and iPod touches for the holidays (or at least a few million of you do), it’s time to start loading up on apps for the kids. A good place to start is our editors’ picks for best kids’ apps of the...

3 Christmas apps to keep little fingers busy while you finish wrapping presents

by Molly | Best Apps

This was the year I was going to be organized for Christmas. But let’s see…I haven’t wrapped a single present, I have three handmade gifts to finish, a family party tonight where I’m expected to bring cookies, lots of cookies, and a messy...

Holiday audiobooks for kids: A good excuse to spend 30 hours relaxing around the fire

by Molly | Best Apps

I tend to get a little romantic around the holidays. Not in the candlelight dinner with my husband kind of way, but more in the drink hot chocolate, nibble on cookies, music playing softly in the background while my pajama-clad children (who never fight over who gets...

Life of George: the competitive LEGO iPhone game

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

Ask my son to write up his Christmas list, and he’ll hand you the LEGO catalog with about a hundred things circled. While I love watching him sit and build everything from the Space Shuttle to a mulitcolored house for all his LEGO mini figures, there is a new...

The perfect road trip app for any egocentric toddler

by Molly | Best Apps

One of my kids’ favorite things to do on my iPad is flip through all the pictures and search for photos of themselves. Yes, they’re self-centered like that. So you can imagine their sheer joy at this newest app which makes their shining little faces the...

What should I draw, mom? This app has the answer.

by Pilar | Best Apps

As the proud mama of a shiny new iPad, I’ve managed to keep my kidlets’ touch screen-seeking fingertips off. Now I’m not sure I want to. Blame it on What Should I Draw? an HD iPad app that brings together Mad Libs and drawing in an epic mashup. Not...

Join the circus

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

In my experience with iPad apps over the last couple of years, I’ve learned that sometimes the simplest apps are the most entertaining and educational. And that’s exactly how I’d describe this adorable new parent-created app for preschoolers and...

This new app for kids doesn’t do anything. (And that’s the point)

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

Some of the apps on my iPad blow me away with their technological innovation, their touch-screen capabilities, and their ability to make my kids gasp, shriek or just marvel at how cool they are. But, the latest app they are hogging my iPad for hardly does anything at...