It occurred to me only when I saw a 7 year old playing games on an iPhone, sorry, HER iPhone, that children are no exception to gadget addiction. Here, I enlist some iOS and Android apps that intend to educate and entertain these gadget hungry children at the same time.
Monkey Preschool Lunchbox
Price: $1.99
Available in iOS and Android versions, this is an application that has a collection of games that are suited to various age spans of children. Children can learn letters, counting, shape recognition and sizes. As with all other games, there are awards such as stickers to appreciate kids to play and learn more. As the name of the app specifies a monkey, there is an animated monkey to engage the children and guide them through the games.
Preschool Arcade
Price: $0.99
Developed for iOS, this application consists of a set of games that are arranged in the form of an arcade and consist of four games namely: ABC Invasion, Pinball 123, Claw-Crane Matching and Whack-A-Mole. This application intends to help children in learn letters, colors, and numbers and develop motor skills.
Shapes Toddler Preschool
Price: Free
This iOS particular app is multi-lingual, that is, it is available in English, Spanish and French. It teaches children shapes, animals, transport, numbers, letters, music, money and seasons through games, quizzes, flashcards and puzzles.
Little Writer – The Tracing App for Kids
Price: $Free
Recognizing letters and numbers are never enough, are they? They must begin learning to write them. This application helps you to do just that. Available in iOS, the app uses images of the letters and numbers for children to trace on and practice. The special feature of the application is that it allows parents and teachers to customize it and add their own lessons.
What’s Different – Odd One Out
Price: $Free/premium
Available in Android Play store, this application helps children to sharpen their horse sense and critical reasoning. Children learn to differentiate between different objects and reason out why they are different in an engaging way. Receiving credits for the right answers encourage them.
Phonics Studio
Price: $Free
Yet another iOS application with the innovative idea of imbibing phonetics to children. Now that they know their letters, numbers, and words, it’s time to move on to the right pronunciation. And not only does this application help improve the phonetic sense, it also improves the child’s vocabulary in a latent manner with flash-cards.
