You may think you know checkers but we’re pretty sure you have never seen the classic game interpreted quite like this. When you open this app you will find a spinning game board with little aliens or monsters instead of those boring old discs. When you touch a piece to move it you are shown […]
Children were engaged and parents were delighted with this cute, alphabet based learning app. Inside the colorfully animated experience there are twenty-six cottages along a winding road. Each cottage represents a letter in the English alphabet. When your child taps on the door a coloring sheet appears based on the letter and a picture featuring
Having children physically interact with apps on the iPad using physical objects is both novel and exciting. With Tiggly Safari children are given four shaped objects with magical properties. Or at least that’s how our testers saw them. When prompted, children grab one of four colorful, plastic shapes (circles, squares, triangles and stars) and place
Tiggly Stamp and its companion Tiggly Safari are marvelous examples of what app developers can do when they think outside the box. Tiggly Stamp involves creating seasonally themed scenes, with four basic shapes that magically help users form more than 80 animals, fruits and objects. You simply tap one of the colorful plastic shapes on
It seems like even Snow White’s dwarves have gotten into the app business. The game is a roller coaster-like adventure that is challenging fun for little users to play. Kids need fast reflexes, good motor control skills and a good memory to really succeed. To play, you get a dwarf (one of the 7 dwarfs)
So there’s this little movie called Frozen that you probably have never heard of…. What’s that? You know it? If that’s the case you have probably seen and heard it so much that it is stuck in your head all day. Now you can bring the magic of the movie to your mobile device and
The Hub Network is exactly that, a hub for all of your kids favorite shows. The app has been updated and according to both parents and children the result is a winner. Right from the start it is obvious that the content is much more organized and easy to navigate. Kids really liked being able
This is a fun little app that really caught the fancy of both the parents and children that played with it. When you first open it, since it doesn’t feature any famous characters, testers weren’t sure what to expect but once they started playing they discovered a whole lot of fun packed inside. Parents told
Parents told us that this early reading app is the kind of experience they want their children to be having when they let them use their iPad. The conceptual design is really quite impressive; every game works together to create a connection between the letter and the words that then become stories. The sequencing, along
The power and undeniable appeal of the iPad to entertain not just ourselves but our kids has transformed the way we look at technology. Unfortunately, it’s not all roses as many of the activities for kids are not much more than time wasters. Thankfully the folks at Tangible Play have been on the case and
