For those with children ages 6 to 8 who enjoy fun discovery apps.
Toca Life: Hospital lets kids enjoy exploring a medical center. They can care for newborns and sick patients with five floors to discover. Children can learn about ultrasound and CAT scan machines, use real-life hospital tools, and do it all without time limits or scoring. For an educational yet fun and interactive way for your kids to learn about hospital life, this is a terrific app.
Why we love it
Toco Life: Hospital helps children learn more about medical care, but in a colorful and enjoyable way.
For those with children ages 6 to 8 who enjoy fun discovery apps.
Toca Life: Vacation is a fun-filled adventure for your kids. They can explore the airport, hotel, beach, and sightseeing spots. There are neat surprises to uncover like buried treasures and adorable characters to include in stories that they can record. For an exciting trip without even leaving the house, children can enjoy playing on the beach, surfing in the ocean, visiting the cockpit on a plane, and riding on a hotel elevator to the penthouse suite.
Why we love it
Toca Life: Vacation takes children on an enjoyable adventure with colorful graphics, fun surprises, and exciting sights to see at every turn.
For those who would like their children ages 6 and up to learn math skills with a fun game.
Jump! A Game of Numbers is a great way for your children to practice and hone their math skills. It is challenging per your child’s skill level and provides an energetic and light-hearted learning environment. You cannot help but love hearing the sounds of the Snortles and will do your best to save them all.
Why we love it
For children ages 6 and up, Jump! A Game of Numbers provides a fun and unique way to practice math and counting. Rescue over 140 cute Snortles floating in the sea through six lively locations.
For those who want to teach their kids about U.S. states, cities, and landmarks in a unique way.
Designed for children 9 to 11, the app does a wonderful job in bringing the subject to life. There are two main parts of the app - a section with four different geography games and a learning area with an awesome interactive map and flash cards. One of the best features of the sequel is the map. For each state, kids can take a look at major cities, landmarks, and a 3-D elevation view.
Why we love it
The animated states make all the difference in Stack the States 2. By allowing kids to tap and move them around, the app helps kids learn about the states in a colorful and playful environment. In other words, Stack the States enables children to learn about geographical borders without the boredom. It really does help the important subject come to life in a fun and exciting way.
For kids who want to learn more about how weather affects the Earth.
The app brings weather to life. You can explore the mundane weather or even see what its like in a tornado or hurricane. The in-depth closeups and inforgraphics are amazingly designed and could even teach adults a thing or two.
Why we love it
Just like the other great titles from the developer, Weather by Tinybop is well-designed and does a great job helping to educate children about the world around them. It’s highly recommended. It will blow you away in more ways than one.
For those who want to reinforce math basics with their preschool-aged kids.
Todo Math: Play and Learn from Counting to Multiplication is a colorful, cheerful way to learn and practice math. From counting to equations to triangles, your girls and boys will enjoy this bubbly math adventure.
Why we love it
If you want to get your kids on the right start with math, then Todo Math: Play and Learn from Counting to Multiplication is a great way to do it. They will learn while having fun with over 600 different activities.
For those who want to teach their kids about U.S. geography in a fun way.
Stack the States lets kids learn about the states and their shapes, capitals, flags, geographical locations, and more. It does so primarily by allowing kids to touch and move animated states on the screen in five mini-games with different objectives: build tall piles of states, tap the locations of states on the map, tap the correct states before they pile up too high, put together adjacent states like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, and match states with their capitals.
Why we love it
The animated states make all the difference in Stack the States. By allowing kids to tap and move them around, the app helps kids learn about the states in a colorful and playful environment. In other words, Stack the States enables children to learn about geographical borders without the boredom.
For those looking for Fruit Ninja accessibility with actual educational elements.
In Slice Fractions, kids have to clear a path for a mammoth by slicing through lava to melt the blocks of ice that hinder the pachyderm's safe passage. Effectively, kids learn about fraction concepts without dealing with potentially confusing words. To reward kids for their excellent slicing, they can also unlock funky hats for the mammoth.
Why we love it
Grasping the concept of fractions can be hard for grade-schoolers and even for some grown-ups. So it's recommended that kids get a head-start. And Slice Fractions, which teaches kids about fractions using game-based learning methods, is a perfect app for that.
For kids who love farm life, animals, and especially horses.
Aptly named Toca Life: Stable, kids can create their own adventure. Kids will head to the stable and select from one of 16 different horses to play with and care for. They’ll brush, feed, and clean up after their horse before heading for a ride. They can head to the arena and show of their horses’s jumping skills and more. There are three other locations including a stable, forest, and shop.
Why we love it
Kids and horses go together like peanut butter and jelly. And Toca Life: Stable is a great way for any child to use their imagination and create their own adventure. Like other games from the developer, there are no in-app purchases or third-party advertising. With no high scores or any other achievements, its perfect to play for just a few minutes or to keep younger children entertained on a long car ride.
For those who are ready to have their children learn algebra using a fun game.
Players manipulate cards to isolate the DragonBox on one side of the game board. Gradually, the cards are replaced with numbers and variables. Subsequently, it emerges that players have been learning how to work with addition, division and multiplication operators all along.
Why we love it
DragonBox Algebra 5+ is a perfect example of game-based learning. Ostensibly it's a simple game that has players manipulating cards. But actually it's an educational game that teaches players how to solve linear equations without them knowing it.
For children who want to explore the different facets of living on a farm.
There are four different locations for children to explore - a barn, house, field, and store. There are also 29 unique characters and tons of different animals. Players can do things like milk a cow, gather eggs from hens, and even plant and tend to crops. Kids can even create their own movie in the app. Along with the characters movements, kids can record their own voice telling a story. Each movie can be up to two minutes long and saved to an iPhone or iPad to share with friends or view later.
Why we love it
Like other apps from the developer, there are no in-app purchases or third-party advertising. With no time limit or high scores, kids can play how they want. The app offers a tons of great activities that many kids will probably enjoy - everything from strumming the banjo to cleaning up after different animals.
