The Gamer With Kids

Here’s a fun children’s app that is featured this week as one of Apple’s New and Noteworthy apps. It’s called Feel Electric! and it’s by the fine folks at Sesame Street. Feel Electric is based on the popular, The Electric Company show and features Electric Company cast members Jessica Ruiz and Danny Rebus. The app is part of a joint venture with Military Families “Finding the Right Word” initiative which is designed to allow children to help express themselves in new ways with their families. Feel Electric! allows children to express their emotions by providing fun activities as well as teaching them over 50 new emotion words that will help them better express how they feel. There is even a digital diary in which they can keep track of their moods through the day.

Feel Electric! is available now in the App Store for free as a universal app. For a full description of the app, please click the read more link below.

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Today’s free app is just for the kids and it’s called Matching Animals by Minimax Games. It’s a simple memory matching game for children that features cute, lovable animals. The game is based on the traditional memory matching game where you have to match up pairs of the same tiles.  It’s a great game for young children and one that will help exercise their brains.

You can get Matching Animals in the App Store here. It’s a universal app so it will work on both your iPhone and your iPad.

Description

Prove your memory skills! Matching Animals let’s you find and memorize colorful pairs of cartoon animals. Lots of game modes makes every one happy.

*** Matching Animals HD got the #1 spot in Germany ***

All the goods:
* 24 colorful Animal cards to explore
* 5 different game modes – from 6 to 20 tiles
* Motivational sounds
* Records high score and best time – just in case
* KIDS LOVE IT

I thought I’d throw up a cute little kids app today that will help your young ones learn their ABC’s from some fruit. Learning apps are always pretty cool for children, especially those that are interactive and include more than just straight up learning.

Learn ABC; It’s Munch Time is available now in the App Store, free for a limited time. You can pick it up for your iPad here. Click the read more link below for more information about the app.

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I actually enjoy these interactive storybook apps on the iPad since I’m a firm believer of reading to your children. My wife an I always make an effort to read at least one story to our kids before bedtime whether it be a real book or an interactive storybook on the iPad. With that said, Top That! Publishing’s Toucan Toucan’t is free right now in the App Store. It’s a children’s book about what you can and can not do, but with a humorous twist.

You can grab Toucan Toucan’t in the App Store here. Click the rad more link below for more details.

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If you have kids and are looking for fun apps they can use on the iPhone and the iPad, then you might want to head on over to the App Store and download Toca Doctor and Toca Doctor HD. Toca Doctor is an app that lets children play doctor virtually with 18 fun puzzles for examining patients. Toca Doctor has a 5 star rating in the App Store so it wouldn’t be a bad idea to download it and check it out since it is free today. How can you argue with free?

You can grab Toca Doctor (iPhone) and Toca Doctor HD (iPad) from the App Store.

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Continuing with our trend of discovering new educational apps for children, we ran across Math Academy from developer App Gate. Math Academy helps kids practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Math Academy includes several minigames that make learning fun as well as having a rewards system that allows users to unlock special stickers.

Math Academy is available free for a limited time right now in the App Store.

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PBS Kids released a new video app yesterday for the iPad which allows children to watch all their favorite clips and episodes from the PBS Kids lineup of shows. That means they’ll be able to watch The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That, Dinosaur Train, Super WHY!, Sesame Street, Wild Kratts and more. Many of the shows are broken up into 2-3 minute clips but there are some full episodes available as well.

The quality of the vids are decent and watchable and is similar to what you’d find on their website anyways. AT least now children will be able to watch them on the iPad. You can pick up PBS Kids Video for the iPad here for free in the App Store.

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If you have kids who love origami or just love crafts in general, you may want to take a look at the Children’s Origami app in the App Store. It’s currently free for a limited time and features over 100 different origami creations they can make. Each come with full instructions that are easy to follow along with.

You can get Children’s Origami free in the App Store here. It’s a universal app so will work on any iOS device.

I haven’t posted one of these up in a few weeks so I figured what better app to feature for kids than one that has the Cat in the Hat in it. Up With a Fish! is a stacking game for children. You tilt your device to move and see how high you can stack your fish bowls. The mechanics have been dumbed down a bit for children, but for children, the balance and speed is just right in my opinion. If you and your child are fans of Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat, I’d definitely recommend you pick this up while its free. You can grab Up with a Fish! here on the App Store.

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This free “app” is for iPad users only. This is an interactive storybook for the story of Rapunzel. It’s normally $4.99 but it’s free today for a limited time only. If you have a child who recently saw the movie Tangled and wants to know more about Rapunzel and the original Grimm’s fairy tail, this would be the perfect app to get for them. You can pick it up in the App Store here.

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Today’s Featured Free Kid’s app comes to us from developer Darren Murtha and it’s called Preschool Memory Match. The app is currently free for a limited time so it’s a good chance to grab it while you can. Preschool Memory Match is a universal app so it will scale depending on if you are using an iPhone or iPad.

Preschool Memory Match is an educational title designed to help children improve their memory skills while being fun at the same time. There are over 220 different matching pairs included within the 5 different categories featured in the game. That means that there is quite a bit of variety each time they play.

You can download Preschool Memory Match now in the App Store here. For more information, click the read more link below.

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We are trying something a bit different today with a new section called “Featured Free Kid’s App.” We usually have the daily three Free Apps of the Day section but they aren’t always what I would consider child friendly sometimes. So today, we started this new section to feature one free kid app that we think you might enjoy.

Today’s app comes from Onelamp Studio and it’s for their educational math game, Math Easy HD. This is an iPad only game and usually costs $4.99, but for the next couple of day the app will be free for all. Math Easy HD which includes 10 steps learning games will actually be available for free in the period of January 21st– January 23rd, both days included! Should this be your first encounter with Math Easy HD there are a few things you should know: As a perfect app for kids 6 and under, it helps your young ones to learn counting, sequencing, odd and even, adding, taking away of 0-20 and multiplication of 2-5. Toddlers will have to use their fingers to interact with the game and they will get not only appropriate encouragement but also vivid game animation as feedback.

For a full description of the game and some screenshots, please click the read more link. If you want to download the app, check out the App Store page for Math Easy HD here.

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