High-quality apps you can feel good about using with your child.
Librarians have been giving advice about how to make choices in media forever! Books, music, movies... Apps are simply another form of media to hit the market and for families that are choosing to use apps with their kids, it can feel overwhelming deciding which apps to choose.
There are a number of great resources about using apps with kids. Here are a few favorites:
- Family Time with Apps
- Apps en Familia
- iPad apps and your Pre-Reader
- Tips for using screen media with young children from Zero to Three
Read to start browsing apps? Check out our most recent app reviews below:
Do you love animals? Maybe you’d like a pet, but can’t have one? Toca Life: Pets is a great app for playing with virtual animals. I recently read a quote that the best toys are “10% toy and 90% kid” and this is certainly true of the Toca Life series. They give you lots of great characters and objects to…
Does your family love to listen to podcasts, but hate sifting through iTunes or Audible to find recordings that are kid-friendly? Try out the Kids Listen app! It's put together by the same people who create the high-quality kids' podcasts that are featured in the app (disclaimer: the App Fairy Podcast is a member of the group and is one of the…
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Visit seven Sago Mini friends…
Build an elevated aquaduct to get the water from point A to point B. Pieces of an aquaduct need to be arranged in such a way that the water can move into the…
A theft has occurred! …
Someone has stolen a beloved…
A gorgeous, lush and…
Peek inside houses and see what goes on inside the red walls. This French app (which includes an English option) is based on a print book that comes with a red…
Help Fiete and his friends…
A serene seek-and-find pictures app. Under Leaves features hand drawn, watercolor collage scenes and with each new level, an animal shows you what you’re looking for and how many of them you’ll find in that scene. The scenes themselves are not flat pictures, but have subtle movement like waving leaves or the underground ripples of water. Once you’ve found the hidden objects (and it…