I am often asked what our favourite iphone + ipad apps are.

So here they are – favourite ipad + iphone apps for Kiddos :o}

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Faces iMake {Lite $0.99 / Premium $1.99} by iMagine machine LLC

This app is absolutely brilliant and has been a favourite here for a very long time. Kids can make faces, animals or anything really using a huge collection of everyday objects – fruits, vegetables, buttons, cooking utensils etc. This is one of the first apps we bought and we very quickly upgraded to the premium version. I can’t remember what the difference is between the Lite and the Premium anymore though. You can save the awesome creations your kiddo makes in your photo album, email them to family and use them as wallpaper. I have an awesome evolution of how Noah has used this app, and how his imagination and creativity has developed over time! Love it.

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Word Wagon by Duck Duck Moose $1.99

This app is great for letter recognition and learning how to spell. It became a favourite very quickly! It has 4 different levels depending on what stage your kiddo is at with letters and sounding out words. There are also a few cute little ‘side’ games to play.

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Eric Carle’s My Very First App by Night and Day Studios $1.99

This is an absolutely gorgeous app. I love almost everything Eric Carle and this app doesn’t dissapoint. It’s beautiful to look at and is easy to use, though Noah is a little old for it {he still enjoys it though} and Chloe needs our help to use it {seeing as she’s not yet 2!}.

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Counting with the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Night and Day Studios $2.99

This is also a very gorgeous app and it has 5 levels. Noah still enjoys this as the levels can still get a little challenging {particularly level 5 which has a time limit}. Chloe loves the first level and is starting to get the second when we sit to play together.

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Preschool Monkey Lunchbox by THUP Games $0.99

This is a cute game where you have to help pack the Monkey’s lunch box. Count out fruits and do little puzzles to put fruits together. Play some short matching games. Learn about shapes and colours and also letters and earn a sticker for great work. The Monkey does make a lot of noises which gets a liiiiiiitle annoying but the kids love it. Noah has kind of mastered this game {the age rating is 2-5} and doesn’t play it very often at the moment but for a while it was an absolute favourite.

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Create a Car by ABCya.com $0.99

This app is fabulous especially for your little boy! {My girl loves it too though}
You can use a whole range of different car parts to build the car of your dreams! After you’ve made your car, you name it and save it to your garage. In your garage you can press the little key button to start the engine on your car and watch all your parts come together and move around. Fun!

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iWrite Words Lite by gdiplus
FREE

This app helps kiddos learn the movements to write letters. They follow the numbers to trace the letters with their fingers. Not so much a favourite anymore as we have moved a little past this stage but Noah really enjoyed this app when he was a little younger. The FREE version only has 3 letters and 3 words as it is just a taster – but at least then you can see if you like it and would like to buy the complete version.

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Toca Hair Salon – Christmas Gift by Toca Boca
FREE

This app is a bit of fluff – there’s nothing wrong with that and my kids just love it. You can give Santa a hair cut and a shave, dye his hair, blow dry it. You can also make his hair grow!
I downloaded it at Christmas and it is still enjoyed. This version is free, they have a paid version that isn’t Santa though. We have also recently bought the Toca Kitchen and Noah has been enjoying this.

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Play School Art Maker by The Australian Broadcasting Corporation
FREE

This is a really cute app and the kids love it. You can make pictures with cute backgrounds and the kids favourite Play School friends all ready to go. You can even make little movies recording your voice and moving the characters around. You can save your artwork too and if you like you can make them into a story. I think this app will appeal to Noah for a while longer, and already Chloe enjoys it too {with our help, of course}. You can also watch some Play School episodes through the app – though these will use your bandwidth so not great when on the go. There is an option to turn this off {by removing the button that says “Watch Play School Episodes” when you go to the settings.

What are you kiddos’ favourite apps?