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With all of the hype about the recent Barbie movie, why not try out a Barbie coloring app? In the free version of this app, users can color a limited number of Barbie illustrations (including a Barbie with an artificial leg and vitiligo). There's a wide variety of colors, tints and shades as...
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Stay very true to the originals with just a touch of (non-intrusive) interactivity options.
Similar to Minecraft, this app allows users to build a world using cubes. There are six characters, each with a specific skill. Learn how each character works and you can build whatever you can imagine!
Create a picture using found objects combined in an infinite variety of ways, based on the artwork of children’s book illustrator, Hanoch Piven. There are so many ways to play with this app. It truly has freeplay and the instructive videos encourage participants to just play around with the...
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And Sound Uncovered. Both of these apps were created in partnership with San Francisco's Exploratorium. They include lots of fun optical and aural illusions. There's a lot of text to explain the different phenomena that...
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Lovely design, lots of scaffolding, and a simple premise drew me to try this app, but it’s earned a review here because i’ve actually seen real-world addition/subtraction learning in my son now that he’s used it for awhile. There are many, many math apps on the market, but if you're looking for...
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