Music has always been a big part of the appeal of Sesame Street, so it’s no surprise to see its latest app taking a musical turn. The app is called Sesame Street Makes Music, and it aims to get kids exploring the world of music-making with some familiar furry friends. “Join the Sesame Street band,…
The Ready to Read app, by Danish developer Minitutor, has been a big hit in Scandinavia with children playing it for more than 50,000 hours so far. Now it’s been launched in the UK too. Aimed at 4-8-year-old children, it focuses on early reading comprehension: letter shapes and sounds. The idea is that you use…
The first children’s app that we’ve got really excited about in 2014 is Blokify, which takes the blocky creation of the popular game Minecraft, and allies it to 3D printing technology. Or, in a nutshell: it gets children (and, indeed, adults) to make virtual things on their iPhone or iPad, and then get them printed…
Have your kids played with the Endless Alphabet app yet? It’s brilliant: getting them to drag chattering letters into place in various words, before watching monsters act them out. Now it’s got a sequel that’s just as fun: Endless Reader. It’s by the same developer, although it has changed its name from Callaway Digital Arts…
When our six-year-old started school, one of the surprises was how well-versed his schoolmates were in the world of Star Wars. It’s a combination of parents sitting them down in front of the six films, and the newer Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series, I think. Plus the enduring appeal of spaceships, lasers, and…
Hasbro’s range of Furby toys has certainly moved on a lot since its debut in the late 1990s. Check out the new Furby Boom, for example, which is designed to work with a companion app on iOS and Android. The app has been released this week as a free download on both platforms. The app…
There’s no Kids category on Apple’s App Store for iPhone and iPad. Instead, children’s apps are spread between Education, Books, Games, and Entertainment. But that’s all set to change this Autumn. As part of its upcoming iOS 7 software, which Apple announced earlier this summer, there’s going to be a new Kids category on the…
As a 35 year-old man with two young sons, I am woefully un-up-to-speed on the life and times of Strawberry Shortcake, although I do recognize the name. And I also know that she’s the star of a new app. Strawberry Shortcake Berry Best Friends was released late last week for iPhone, iPad, and Android by…
Yep, sold. “Tickle grumpy animals and spread the laughter” is one of the better taglines we’ve seen for a children’s app this month. Meet Gigglebug. Released by a developer of the same name, it’s described as “a new kind of app that lets kids play and laugh together with friends… based on the simple idea…
Angry Birds cartoons? Count us in. We’ve seen how our two sons have responded to the birds and pigs in the Angry Birds games, and they’re bang up for getting more of their stories in a TV series. Meet Angry Birds Toons, which made its debut this weekend. Available to stream through all the existing…