Posts Tagged ‘4 yo’
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
Preschool Connect the Dots gets it right
Posted on February 9th, 2010
From the makers of TOP 10 APP Shape Builder, here’s what was missing for the iPhone: a connecting-the-dots app. And Preschool Connect the Dots is a perfect fit. Simply touch the numbers or letters in sequence to reveal images. With great illustrations, sound and over 200 puzzles, this certainly a must have!
Preschool Connect the Dots, by Touchscreen Preschool Games. 99¢
More from the developer’s site:
Brought to you by the creators of Shape Builder – the Preschool Puzzle Learning Game, which was picked as both an Apple Staff Favorite and an iTunes App Store Essential for Toddlers.
The Preschool Connect the Dots Game bridges the gap between the traditional “Dot to dot” game and 21st century technology! Learning has never been so mobile(TM).
Children can “tap” or “draw” to connect sequential numbers (123), upper case letters (ABC), and lower case letters (abc). Joining all the dots forms the outline of the shape and reveals the beautifully illustrated image, a really fun sound effect, and the object name spoken by a speech therapist that specializes in early childhood development!
With over 200 puzzles, children can randomly play from all.
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!
Canupa Animals’ Band
Posted on January 28th, 2010
The Canupa Band Deluxe iPhone/iPod Touch app is cute, fun and really well put. Choose between a series of different animals and instruments to play with in a fun and educational way. Limited notes on the instruments are a help for easy compositions. The illustrations look great and there is always something funny to be expected from the little animals.
Canupa Band Deluxe, by Canupa. 99¢ (or look for the free ‘lite’ version)
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.
Lola’s Flag Adventure: it’s time to learn the flags!
Posted on January 6th, 2010
Lola’s Flag Adventure is a memory game with flags for images. The largest countries of Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific are covered here and the game comes with different levels of difficulty which makes the app accessible to the little kids. Great design and nice voice guidance in English and Chinese (simplified). It is certainly a great chance to learn the flags while playing!
Lola’s Flag Adventure, by BeiZ. $1.99
Description from the developer’s site:
Lola’s Flag Adventure – First high quality flag game especially for kids is now available!
Now you can have fun and learn the world flags together with little Lola panda in two challenging flag games: Memory (4-9 years) and Trivia (+6 years). The game introduces the flags of the world biggest countries with high quality voice guidance and colorful graphics that make the gaming experience exiting and rewarding for all the children around the world. Lola show you that learning can be fun!
Main features:
- Two game modes to learn the flags: Memory and Trivia
- High quality voice guidance throughout the game
- Easy-to-use game design for children
- Flags of the biggest countries from Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific
- Language options: English and Simplified Chinese
- Supports iPhones OS SDK 2.2.1 or later
Circus Find: Where’s my nose?!
Posted on January 6th, 2010
Here’s an app explores a theme not much talked about: the circus! In this cute app, the clown loses his nose and we have to help him find it throughout the circus. It is an interactive search and find game with great illustrations and music. It has become rapidly one of my 3 yo. favorites. He has been playing with it over and over since we have it installed!
From the same developers, you may also find ‘Where’s Gumbo‘, another search and find interactive game. But Circus Find is a huge improve in all terms. Certainly worth the buy!
Circus Find, by Jacob Favre. ¢99 (reduced price for a limited time)
Here’s a quote from the developers:
Things aren’t always what they seem in this Circus tent! Created by a mom and a dad, Circus Search is a fun, interactive book that gets kids thinking about the world a little differently. Join us inside the big top as we search for our clown’s missing nose — You never know where it will turn up!
Entertain your children while encouraging problem solving skills, shape recognition and fine motor development.
• Push the elephant on his balance ball
• Pop some balloons
• Watch the tightrope walker try to stay balanced
• Light the fuse and watch the human cannon-ball blast off!
• and much, much more!Circus Find encourages children to explore each scene before revealing the big picture. Everything isn’t always what you think it is when you only see a small part of the scene, and as a parent, you can help encourage creative thinking and problem solving by having your child guess what’s next.
Touch, explore and discover all the amazing things this circus has to offer!
Little Red, all-time classic
Posted on January 2nd, 2010
If you are planning on having the all-time classic story Little Red Ridding Hood on your iPhone/iPod Touch interactive book library search no more: this is the one to have. Beautiful illustrated (by Simone Abel) with sound effects, the option to read or listen to the story and — a plus — a coloring book.
Advisory: the classic story is quite vivid on this one. The grandmother and Little Red actually get eaten by the wolf before the woodcutter comes right away and rescues everybody. So depending on the version you use to tell your kids, make sure to prepare them before you reach the end.
Although a little pricy (compared to similar apps) this is still a great buy.
Little Red, from Appily Ever After Publishing. $ 2.99
