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PlayART
Review Excerpt: This app turns your iPad into a classic-art flannel board, stocked with the key elements from five artists — Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Henri ...
Mask Jumble Animals
Review Excerpt: This app turns your iPad or iPhone into a magical mirror that can turn your face into an animal mask. The app uses face recognition technology (of the variety used in ...
Chalk Box Story, The
Review Excerpt: This is a good idea, the art is excellent, but the content is limited, and there’s no option to freely draw. The story is based on the idea that if a box of chalk ...
ArtSee Studio
Review Excerpt: iPad cases for children abound, but if your intention is to turn your iPad into a child’s easel, ArtSee Studio (WowWee.com, $40) is the best bet. Designed to offer ...
Journey Collector’s Edition
Review Excerpt: This is a collection of three PlayStation games that include Journey, Flower, and Flow. Other content includes mini-games, plus a documentary on the making of Journey. ...
StorySmith: Medieval Kingdom HD
Review Excerpt: Like a digital flannel board, this drag-and-drop creativity app lets you create your own fairy tale or fantasy adventure. The app is sold in theme packs — this ...
Sofia the First
Review Excerpt: This animated story is narrated by ABC Modern Family’s Ariel Winter, and the other characters of the TV show, as well as Sara Ramirez from Grey’s Anatomy ...
Leo’s Pad Appisode 1
Review Excerpt: Leo’s Pad is best described as an interactive movie, divided into “appisodes.” After a short animated sequence, you participate in the story with four ...
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Review Excerpt: Now available for the both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS (as well as Windows) this edition of Scribblenauts contains more new words and related images plus a new set of challenges. ...
Thinkin’ Things 1: Toony the Loon’s Lagoon
Review Excerpt: Back in the days of mono-touch and non-HD graphics, Thinkin’ Things was cutting edge. The first edition scored 5 stars back in 1993; one of the first and few software ...
Toca Hair Salon 2
Review Excerpt: This second edition of Toca Hair Salon is just as zany, with some added frosting that makes it more fun. The app is more similar than different than the first edition, ...
Toontastic Jr. Pirates
Review Excerpt: Toontastic Jr. is a simplified and limited iPad or iPhone puppet-making experience that comes with a built in pirate theme. It locks you into a three-scene template, ...
Where Do Balloons Go?
Review Excerpt: This eBook + creativity activity explores a question every child has pondered: Where does a balloon go when it escapes into the sky? The 17 screen story is authored ...
Webkinz Friends
Review Excerpt: Webkinz World has arrived on your iPad, but be prepared to part with some real money, unless you have a lot of time to wait. The app follows a familiar in-app sales ...
StoryBots Starring You StoryBooks
Review Excerpt: JibJab has dramatically increased their StoryBots apps, but be warned — these apps do a great job pulling you in for free, and then do everything possible to get ...
Ride a Pony with Kate and Harry
Review Excerpt: This open-ended experience lets you decorate your own pony using a set of clear multiple choice menus, and then take it for a ride. There are no in-app purchases or ...
Funky Barn
Review Excerpt: Sort of like the sims, only with a farmland full of animals, crops, trees and more, this game lets you take care of farm animals, and collect things like milk, eggs ...
Disney Winnie the Pooh Wonder and Wander
Review Excerpt: Winnie the Pooh takes on a modern, collage-style look with this collection of five generic games. Activities include a Simon-says game with musical animals, a coloring ...
Batman: Stickers with Sounds
Review Excerpt: One of a series of sticker books by Night & Day studios, this is a flannel board-like activity that comes with 18 Batman “stickers” — characters ...
Toca Tailor
Review Excerpt: Toca Tailor lets you design and style outfits for four “discerning and quirky characters,” by choosing patterns, adjusting hemlines or lengthening the sleeves. ...
LittleBigPlanet Karting
Review Excerpt: Sackboy, or Sackgirl, returns in “the fastest LittleBigPlanet” adventure yet” with an E for Everyone rating. After Sackboy defeated the Negativitron, ...
Disney Creativity Studio
Review Excerpt: The Disney Creativity Studio consists of both an app and a $50 stylus. Note that the app is free with the purchase of the stylus (a download code is included in the ...
Pumpkin Pal
Review Excerpt: In this app, children first choose from five pumpkin shapes. They can then either freely carve (with an adjustable-width knife) or they can select different eyes, noses ...
Picture Me Trick or Treat
Review Excerpt: Using the iPad’s camera, this electronic edition of the printed Picture Me book lets you put up to eight of your own photos inside the story, peeking out of windows ...
Felt Board
Review Excerpt: This app is a noble attempt to simulate a real open-ended felt board, of the variety inspired by a legacy of classroom felt boards.
On first glance it almost succeeds. ...
Alien Assignment
Review Excerpt: This is a scavenger hunt that has a specific role for both parents and children. After an animated introduction, you are asked to run around your house or school to ...
Monsters vs. Superheroes Comic Book Maker
Review Excerpt: This third creativity app from Duck Duck Moose lets you make your own animated, self-narrated puppet shows. Like Draw and Tell and Princess, this app is easy to use ...
Nick Jr. Draw and Play
Review excerpt: This creativity activity kit gives children new ways to fill an iPad screen. Drawing and coloring is also an option, too, thanks to a responsive palette of tools that ...
Princess Fairy Tale Maker
Review excerpt: With a core design nearly identical to Draw & Tell (CTR March 2012) this open-ended creativity experience is designed to let children play with princess-related ...
Teddy Tennis Sticker & Stamp Book
Review excerpt: One of the strangest apps we’ve reviewed, Teddy Tennis is “a system that is designed to encourage children to get active and learn to play tennis by combining ...
Scoot & Doodle
Review excerpt: Scoot & Doodle works specifically with Google Hangout (you need a G+ account to use it) so that children can draw and doodle, with up to ten other people — ...
ModNation Racers: Road Trip
Review excerpt: ModNation Racers for Vita does lets you make your own track over a landscape that you shape by pushing up with second touch screen. Features include the ability to turn ...
Sticker Dolly Dressing
Review excerpt: Classic paper doll play comes to the iPad, complete with well-stocked libraries of shoes, hair styles, dresses, tops, bottoms and accessories. After you choose a doll, ...
il MostroPino
Review excerpt: Play with a set of beautifully illustrated, zany monsters (on par with Moshi Monsters) in this Italian-language app. The narration is especially colorful, giving you ...
Dans Mon Rêve (In My Dream)
Review excerpt: This make-your-own dream machine lets you mix and match artistic elements with a left or right swipe. With each motion, the “dream” changes, along with an ...
Draw and Tell
Review excerpt: Now you can think of your iPad or iPhone as a drawing/flannel board and story telling machine. The drawing is paired with a narration feature that makes it easy to do ...
Don’t Let The Pigeon Run This App!
Review excerpt: This language experience/creativity app puts a children’s book author (Mo Willems) inside his own app. It also invites you (or a child) to serve as the co-author/ ...
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