An app to help a big sibling get ready for a new baby. Or at least a virtual one.

by Jeana | Best Apps

With a new baby in the house, both of my older kids are so surprisingly sweet when it comes to caring for her, wanting to pick her up, even changing diapers. It’s amazing how nurturing young kids can be, whether caring for a real baby, a stuffed animal, or in...

3 completely silly, non-educational, totally fun apps that let kids be kids on their holiday break

by Pilar | Best Apps

To us, the holidays are a time for throwing the rules out the window a bit. We eat too many cookies, the kids stay up too late, and if their typical screen time doubles (or triples) while we all enjoy a little down time, so be it. So here are 3 of the silliest,...

Shadow Puppet: The app Steven Spielberg would have loved as a kid

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

If your kids are budding creative types, but they still love to get techy with their masterpieces, you’ll want to check out this cool new app that allows them to add voiceover narration to their photographs or artwork. Because next Spielberg or Scorsese or...

The best Santa apps for kids: 4 magical ways to connect your kids with the big guy right through your phone or PC

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

Kids already bubbling over with excitement that Santa will be on his way in just a few more days? Santa apps for kids can be a really magical way to bring the story to life, only we’ve tried out plenty and sheesh, some of them belong on the naughty list. So here...

Clumsy Ninja app: An awesome game for kids. Because? Ninjas.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

Clumsy Ninja, the long-awaited app from London tech gurus NaturalMotion has finally arrived, and I’m betting it’s how a lot of kids will be spending screen time over the holidays. To be honest, you might catch me sneaking away to my room to play for...

Toca Boca apps on sale, one day only. Your kids want them, promise.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

While we’ve been singing the praises of Toca Boca apps for kids for ages now, we’re not the only ones. They are wildly engaging, often educational, and absolutely charming with quirky details and humorous characters that can only come from this...

Millie and Dogs and Dinos mean an adorable new ebook for kids

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

Don’t tell our beloved, drooly Black Lab, but my kids have been spending an awful lot of time with another adorable pooch. This one has been sneaking into their hearts with a series of totally cute iPad stories that combine funny storytelling, adorable doggie...

8 Halloween apps for kids for spooky, creative, or silly fun

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

Once again, it’s that time we seek out the very best Halloween apps for kids to help keep them in the Halloween spirit, without wearing out their costumes and polishing off the mini Kit-Kats before the 31st even hits. And once again, it’s a hard job. But...

The new Toca Mini app: It’s a small world after all.

by Pilar | Best Apps

Cute? Funky? Funny? That’s entirely up to you in this new colorful world from Toca Boca, one of our favorite developers of kids’ apps, and it’s all created with kids’ wild imaginations in mind. Toca Boca just released its latest iOS treat, and...

A Halloween coloring app for kids that offers free offline creativity too

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

I’m all for kids getting to use my iPad to color and create. But I love getting them offline to do the same with old-fashion crayons and markers too. (Remember those?) Here’s an app company that’s doing both. The Silly Aliens Supercrayon...