Tablets are everywhere, from iPad’s to Android devices and, for the past few years, kid-aged versions. As with the big boys, the competition is fierce and the rush to load tablets with more and more amazing, high-end features is nothing short of intense. VTech remains one of the most trusted brands in educational electronics and […]
The Pick and Draw card game impressed testers as being both brilliantly simple and wonderfully creative. In a nutsehell, its a drawing game; there are five colors of cards and each card represents an element of a face. Players begin by drawing a face shape, and then the different facial features. Players dont need to
Not surprisingly a board game that encourages children to think about the food choices they make and the physical activity they can do to keep healthy didn’t strike testers as something that was going to be filled with a lot of fun. Then they spent some time playing and discovered that this game has a
A creative, mobile app is a take on the classic game of Connect Four. EnsensaSoft has added in bright colors, and animations along with some updates like the ability to add a third or fourth panel. This adds a new element to the game play allowing more advanced players to be engaged and challenged. The
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
This delightful and engaging DVD features six 11-minute animated episodes, each focusing on a specific time of day in a child’s life at home or in school. There’s Story Time, Painting Time, Show Time, Bath Time, Photo Time, and Play Time. The main characters, Tommy and Tallulah who live in a clock, are cute, fun,
Sometimes the size of our car or our living space determines the quality of the stroller we purchase. Mamas & Papas set out to bring luxury to the compact stroller category and our testers think they succeeded. Among the features and functionality they found most appealing were the nicely padded, comfortable seat; the large sized
This DVD collection of songs for children is perfectly produced to connect with its target audience. Testers appreciated the nice variety of songs; from typical nursery rhymes like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to the Alphabet Song and Days of the Week. Each song has its own characters with good singing voices and each track incorporated
Another beautifully designed and brilliantly executed wooden playset from the folks at HABA. Parents were singing the praises of this creative set from the moment they began playing with it with their children. The box is part of the play pattern as it folds down to reveal the zoo. The lid is so well made
