Posts Tagged ‘2 yo’
Animal Hide & Seek, great adventure
Posted on March 11th, 2010
With 3 scenarios, Animal Hide & Seek Adventure is a fun game that challenges kids to find hidden animals from the Jungle, Circus or the Ocean. The illustrations are beautiful and the music really elaborated, great for a fun time but also exposing our kids to quality art.
Children up to 3 will be more excited about this one, but it might do for older kids as well.
Animal Hide & Seek Adventure, by Awesome Giant. $1.99
FarmHowl, beautiful illustrations
Posted on March 4th, 2010
When it comes to the ‘farm apps business’ we certainly have a hand full of choices. These nice iPhone/iPod Touch apps generally work the same way, with animals illustrations and sounds. The difference between the apps lays on the quality of the production. On that aspect, FarmHowl is certainly a keeper.
It is a very simple app, for very little kids but the illustrations are indeed beautiful with nice work of colors. If you consider that visual education is something important for your kids, this one is worth having on board of your device. Even more, because the app is free.
FarmHowl, by Jami Becker. Free.
‘What’s for dinner?’ A 3 Little Pigs sequel. Promo giveaway!
Posted on February 26th, 2010
Hurray! With got promocodes! The folks from StoryBoy have granted us with codes from their story book ‘What’s for dinner?’ A 3 Little Pigs sequel. We have 3 promocodes available (US iTunes app store only). First three people to leave a comment on this post get the code. Hurry up! 
Color Me, a coloring app best
Posted on February 18th, 2010
# UPDATED: Version 1.2 is now out with 11 new drawings to be colored! #
There are several coloring apps already out there and some of the are very good. But making a great coloring app is not an easy task and I believe that the guys who made Color Me actually got it.
What makes an app great are the little details. From the quality of the drawings, the quick response when you touch a part to color it, the interaction with the tools, the choice of colors. Color Me is got it all! My 3 yo said out of his head he loved it (believe, having seen a lot of apps, he is very picky)!
More info from the developer:
A coloring booklet for children at the age of 2-6 years. Diverse pictures and color palette will trigger the development of your child’s imagination and shape his/her senses.
A very friendly and intuitive application enables your child to easily create extraordinary pictures.
Only a touch of a finger and the selected element of the coloring will be filled with colors.
Shaking the iPhone will cause the cleansing of the picture and therefore provides endless possibilities for coloring of the pictures.
It is also possible to save the masterpieces of your child in the image gallery. Then the child will be able to place them on the desktop of your device..
Allow your child to discover the world of colors by means of “Color Me!”
Truck Modz, for the little ones who just can’t have enough trucks
Posted on February 17th, 2010
You boys’ parents out there will certainly join me on this one: a young boy just can’t have enough of cars, trucks and all sorts of vehicles, can’t he? So pay attention to this app, because Truck Modz is a boy’s dream come true: virtually endless combinations of trucks. Change type, wheels, colors, press on lights, sirens, radio, all combinations possible to have a world of little trucks on a single app with professional graphics and sounds.
Do spend some time playing around with your kid and showing him de possible combinations. It is all there even if not very clear right from the beginning. There will be need for some exploration here to discover all the possibilities.
Truck Modz, from LotusLand Studios. $1.99
Living Stories: King Midas and The Princess and the Pea
Posted on February 16th, 2010
Hurray, there is a new great maker of iPhone interactive books in town. DHX Interactive has published ‘Living Stories’, with two classic stories out already: King Midas and The Princess and the Pea. The books have great professional illustrations, animation, music and sound effects. You can choose from having the book read with the voice track that comes with or record up to four different voice overs of your own.
Unfortunately there seems to be no option to read the book without any voice over, which is something always nice to have when we want read to our kids. Hopefully something to be added to future updates and releases.
Living Stories: King Midas, from DHX Interactive. $1.99
Living Stories: The Princess and the Pea, from DHX Interactive. $1.99
Mandy and Andy go Renovating
Posted on February 7th, 2010
For those who like to keep a library of interactive books on your iPhone here is Mandy and Andy Renovating, a cute interactive story of two cats who go on great adventures! The book can be read to or read for in three languages: English, French and Simplified Chinese. An interesting book app to have on your collection. Price is a little higher than other similar apps but it is still an excellent price considering what you get in return.
Mandy and Andy Renovating, from BeiZ Ltd. $1.99
Hidden Stories, free for the weekend!
Posted on February 7th, 2010
From the same makers of Color Me, here is Hidden Stories. Go ahead and give it a try, the app will be free this weekend!
We haven’t had the time to try it so far, but here is some info from the developer:
Take your child into the magic world of “Hidden Stories” on your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad !
The application includes 30 images in three categories: animals, fairy tales and professions.Just move your finger on your IPhone and the next extraordinary picture is presented.
A hare eating a carrot, swimming dolphins or a deer on a clearing, these all your kid will be able to see on your IPhone screen.
One finger movement will take you to the world of fairy tales. Tell your child why the wolf wanted to eat the Little Red Riding Hood, why Pinocchio has a long nose and how Hansel and Gretel managed to escape from the house of the evil witch.
Let your imagination create a completely new stories.
Your child may also in an easy way get to know, how the work of a fireman or a miner looks like.
Use the application for a common playing, show your child only a part of the picture and let him guess what is hidden.
A colorful and merry animations of “Hidden Stories for Kids” will surely give your child a lot of fun!MAIN FEATURES:
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1. 30 special images with animation
2. 3 categories: animals, fairy tales and professions.
3. Collection of stories with educational content
4. Professional layout and cool design
5. Simple feature – uncover images by movement finger
6. Special feature – attach your images from Photo Library
Let your baby DJ
Posted on January 31st, 2010
DJ Baby is a well put, nicely developed simple app for playing DJ. Some loops and different sounds, a turntable for scratching and, there, you’ve got yourself a little DJ set. Fun to play with for a while, and do some little music in a very straightforward way.
The app is now on sale, so go ahead and spend those cents for your kid to have some music fun.
DJ Baby, by Comet Coast Software. 99¢
More from the developer’s site:
Your child can play a track and mix in samples & scratches created specifically by our very own “DJ Daddy”. Change records on the animated turntable and enable 3 bonus scratch sounds for each record. A hidden easter egg is waiting for your little DJ to discover. Hint: Shake it! (iPhone Only)
Your child can explore and discover new combinations of sounds and have fun doing it!
DJ Baby is great for kids…
- Experiment with music and sound!
- Interact with a wild, fun and colourful game!
Hours of fun and entertainment!
Lifeboat Luke comes to the AppStore (+ promocodes!)
Posted on January 7th, 2010
So here’s LifeBoat Luke’s iPhone app version! The great series of 52 5-minute cartoon episodes that are now being transformed into apps, with episode 1, ‘Rubberduckadoo’ already out and more to come.
You can choose to simply watch the episode or play a search and find game looking for objects within the movie. For the ones who didn’t know Lifeboat Luke (we didn’t!), it is a beautiful designed cartoon, with cute characters and great animation exploring the world of the seas (see video bellow). Certainly worth having on your kid’s repertoire!
LifeBoat Luke Spotisode 1: Rubberduckadoo, by Straandlooper Animation. $ 1.99
But wait! We’ve got promocodes! First 5 commenters will get the codes. Hurry up!
From LifeBoat Luke’s iPhone app press release:
iPhone ‘first’ for Lifeboat Luke.
Straandlooper Animation, the Northern Ireland based production company, announced what it believes to be a first today, the rollout of their exciting 52 part animated kids TV series Lifeboat Luke, as interactive games called ‘Spotisodes’. Available for the iPhone and iPod Touch they will be released every Friday throughout the year on the iTunes App Store.
Friday 1st January 2010 sees the release of Spotisode 1 ‘Rubberduckadoo’.
The new games give players the opportunity to watch episodes of Lifeboat Luke interactively, ‘spotting’ a number of set items that appear throughout the story. If they tap the screen to select each item and get them all right, they release a password which will unlock exclusive Lifeboat Luke colouring pages online at www.lifeboatluke.tv.2010 is the centenary year of the Lifeboat in the real life town of Donaghadee on the County Down coast in Northern Ireland and since Lifeboat Luke is set in the mad, magical seaside town of Donaghadoo – marking the centenary of the real Lifeboat with the release of the weekly Spotisodes featuring its fictional counterpart seemed like perfect timing.
The games are designed to keep young minds busy and fingers nimble, the mobile format making them perfect for long journeys or keeping idle hands occupied during shopping trips.
The featured stories follow the search and rescue adventures of Lifeboat Luke and his crew and introduce young audiences to sea and water safety issues. Made in association with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the charity that saves lives at sea in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, a percentage of all profits go towards helping the volunteer crews of the RNLI.
More about Lifeboat Luke:
Lifeboat Luke is an animated series of 52×5 minute episodes. The search and rescue adventures for 4-7 year olds and their salty grandparents has now sold to over 25 broadcast territories around the world with other territories joining during 2010.Other products released in 2009 included:
- Shared reading book ‘Rubberduckadoo’
- DVD – ‘Donaghadoodle 1’
- iApp- ‘Keek on a Crab’ (available from iTunes.)
A new half-hour seasonal ‘special’ Snowdiddleyhohohelp! is in preparation for release Christmas 2010.
Further books and DVDs are also planned.
