Educational Apps Your Kids Will Love…and so Will You!

The quarantine has got me in a different jive than I’m used to these days and getting creative is starting to wear thin in my household. Sometimes you just need a good ole educational app on your devices to keep the kiddos entertained. I am typically against screen time in kiddos (and don’t condone it for any little one under the age of 3) but desperate times are calling for desperate measures. I did a bit of research and found these GREAT apps that not only keep your child(ren)’s attention, but they educate them as well. It is a win, win in my desperate momma’s mind.

1. Peg + Cat Big Gig

The app features the characters Peg and Cat who dance and sing along to easy math exercises such as counting up and down. Through singing, children learn to count, identify numbers and repeat patterns.

2. Monkey Preschool Lunchbox

Pre-schoolers are entertained by helping the monkey to fill up its lunchbox with healthy food. The Monkey Preschool Lunchbox app aims to introduce letters, shapes, patterns and colours by asking the children to solve puzzles, match pictures of fruits.

3. A Parcel of Courage

A Parcel of Courage focuses on the story of a family who help their grandmother in overcoming her fear of flying. This interactive book app combines story telling with solving story-based games. The four games provide educational activities by enhancing pre-schoolers’ working memory, eye-hand combination, and listening and problem-solving skills.

4.  AlphaTots Alphabet

The app focuses on 26 action verbs that help toddlers learn the alphabet. Alphabet sing-a-longs and puzzles are two examples which the app uses to keep toddlers’ interested and encourage them to learn letters on their own.

5.  LEGO® App4+

Children can create their own truck and have to move it around a bumpy track to collect coins that unlock more parts of the game. Targeting kids between the age of four and seven, the LEGO App4+ is a game that helps to improve imagination and building skill.

6. Hoopa City

The app features the Hippo names Hoopa who needs help to construct cities. Hoopa City is designed for pre-school children who have to combine elements in order to create houses, streets and gardens to ultimately. By using their imagination, children enhance their problem-solving skills in this interactive kids role-play.

7. Alphabet Flashcards

Alphabet Flashcards is an app that supports pre-schoolers to learn the alphabet by using digital flashcards. The flashcards show images of a word that begins with the chosen letter and children can also listen to the sound of the letter if they like.

8. Preschool Arcade

The Preschool Arcade app will make children feel as if they were at the boardwalk. The four educational games feature an ABC Invasion, Pinball 123, Claw-Crane Matching, and a Whack-a-Mole. While the games help to learn basic counting and the alphabet, kids will be drawn to the animations and sound effects.

9. Sago Mini Road Trip

Choosing between six destinations, the app allows children to enjoy their own road trip from packing a suitcase, choosing a car and stopping for petrol or a car wash on the way. The game is aimed at toddlers at the age of two to four years and enhances their creativity skills.

10. The Monster at the End of This Book

All children who enjoy Sesame Street will love this interactive app book which is a recreation of the classic picture book. The character Grover asks children to untie ropes, knock down brick walls and tickle Grover. The app offers a way to begin a child-friendly conversation about emotions and fears by focusing on the monster at the end of the book.