Kazooloo is exhilarating fun that requires a cool temperament and steady hand in the midst of increasingly physical action. After downloading the Kazooloo app, point your device's camera at the game board to start the action. Digital creatures immediately begin coming out of the game board. These creatures are fast, gnarly, and on the offensive, so you must be quick on your feet and constantly moving around the board in o...Read more

LEGO FUSION Town Master creates an almost magical blend of physical and onscreen fun by being both a traditional building toy and a virtual game. The free app that comes with this 256 piece building set lets you scan your models into the game, as long as they include both a door and the LEGO FUSION scan plate. The game starts off with just the mayor of Fusion Town living alone, population one. Each time you scan a model i...Read more

This app engages and entertains kids while teaching them to identify geometric shapes and their key visual characteristics. The Sing section contains animated sing-along music videos with original Disney Imagicademy music and lyrics that appear along the bottom of the screen, karaoke-style. Seven of the songs focus on one shape apiece - Square, Triangle, Circle, Oval, Diamond, Rectangle, Hexagon - and feature visuals and ...Read more

With 'Minnie's Home Makeover,' children have the pleasure of working alongside Minnie, Daisy, and Cuckoo-Loca to design, furnish, and decorate homes for customers. The app is very easy to use, and the beautiful results kids get time after time are a great source of pride for them. A blueprint shows which rooms the client would like help with, and from it, kids select one room at a time on which to work their creative magi...Read more

This utterly charming language learning app uses kids' familiarity with real-life daily routines such as cooking, cleaning, washing, and ironing as a tool to help them learn English, Spanish, and Chinese. The onscreen animals have a uniquely humorous quality that stems, in part, from their ever-changing facial expressions and physical movements. They react in often surprising ways (wild shakes of the head, comically implo...Read more

From the moment kids first see Angela's paws peeking out from a baby carriage and hear her happy, baby-like sounds, they want to take care of her. And that is precisely what they do, feeding and caring for Angela through 60 unique levels while helping her progress through nine different stages of growth. Playing games and activities provides access to food, fashionable outfits for Angela, and the ability to decorate each ...Read more

This is fast, fierce fun that lets you play with family and friends in real time on your shared WiFi network or online with up to 8 players. At the outset, each player selects their favorite football team to represent, then the action begins. Part of what makes the fun so amped-up is that with a few finger-swipes players can line up any 5 of the 10 mini-games to execute one after the other. As soon as one game ends, anoth...Read more

The high level of interactivity built into this app is a large part of what makes it such a joy for youngsters to experience. As much fun as the music and animation in each animated nursery rhyme is to watch, it's the multitude of little surprises waiting to be triggered that keeps kids so fully engaged. Touching characters and objects onscreen during the rhymes causes surprising things to occur. Characters spring into ac...Read more

The benefits to a child of a traditional coloring book are many - creative exploration, expressing emotions, enhanced fine motor skills, prolonged concentration, and more. These are among the reasons that Painting Lulu's exciting blend of traditional and digital coloring is such a boon to children. The 32 page Painting Lulu coloring book (made with recyclable paper) comes with a free companion app that lets kids scan the ...Read more

Filled with rousing non-stop action and fun, this free app is a treasure. Based on the film 'Penguins of Madagascar', the app's games let players help penguin pals Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private race through an ever-changing landscape of obstacles that includes octopus henchman armed with mutant-creating goo. Along the way, the penguins collect as many Cheesy Dibbles as possible for their trouble. With a few simple ...Read more

There is something about this app that makes learning a delicious experience for kids. It's not just that a good deal of thought and care clearly went into every aspect of its design. What sets Reader Bee and the Story Tree apart is how well those pieces come together to form a highly effective learning tool. Kids find the games hugely enjoyable, a fact that keeps them happily coming back for more. Reading skills are buil...Read more

Reader Bee's First Story Maker gives children the ability to communicate in writing even if they are just beginning to learn letters and words. It inspires them to explore and enjoy expressing themselves through written stories while building word skills. The app's special Honeycomb Keyboard has pictures on the keys next to the letters (like an apple on the 'a' key) to help kids locate the letter they want by connecting ...Read more

This app contains four interactive games - word memory game, flash cards, shape game (words contained in shapes), and spelling bee - that build and reinforce spelling and word skills in a fun, easy to navigate format. There are dozens of word lists within each game and the app adapts to the child's skill level, stimulating ongoing growth and a sense of confidence. The lists have been selected to reflect those most often u...Read more

It is rare to find a children's app that realizes its educational and entertainment potential to the extent that this one does. Each page in The Cat in the Hat - Read & Learn is a world unto itself, containing numerous interactive treasures triggered by tap, swipe, or tilt. Many objects, in addition to exhibiting sound and animation when tapped, display surprising (and quite entertaining) behavior when dragged. These dive...Read more

Touchtronic Numbers provides a delightful combination of tactile and digital fun that helps students absorb and retain what they learn. Kids learn counting, greater than, less than, equations, and place value. The set includes the numbers 0 through 9 and six equation symbols that, when placed onscreen, interact with two free iPad apps. The Touchtronic 123s app includes games in which kids count people and animals on a tra...Read more

Zip the Zebra is a classic finger puppet designed to be used in conjunction with a suite of free educational apps. Kids use Zip to navigate the apps, swiping and tapping the screen with their new finger puppet friend and adding a dimension of imaginative physical play to the digital fun and learning. Zip's Big Race, an animated storybook app, tells the tale of the ultra-fast Zip being challenged to a race by the fastest h...Read more