List/Grid Tag Archives: fine motor skills
Dexteria Jr.
Review Excerpt: Three simple, highly structured activities could be useful for introducing someone to multi-touch screens. For example, Pinch the Pepper lets you try out your emerging ...
iPieces Fishing Game
Review Excerpt: Here’s a free app, for 1 to 4 players that works in tandem with a $10 set of spoon-sized plastic fishing poles. You start by picking a country (USA, UK or Canada) ...
Apptivity Hot Wheels
Review Excerpt: Two special Hot Wheels cars (sold for $20) use a technology we first saw last fall (see Disney AppMates, CTR Nov. 2011). The cars are sold only in Apple stores, and ...
Children’s Picture Dictionary
Review excerpt: This talking picture dictionary contains 1,700 words accompanied by pictures and spoken sentences. Children can swipe through the pictures, just exploring, or they can ...
Ben 10 Galactic Racing
There are quality racing games abound, but not with the comedic antics of Nickelodeon’s Ben 10 gang. The latest PSVita version looks and sounds more real than ever, with 25 tracks ...
Team Umizoomi
Review excerpt: This one player problem solving adventure features Milli, Geo, and Bot from the Umizoomi Nickelodeon show. In order to rebuild a submarine, children move through 25 ...
Pillow Pets
Review excerpt: Based on the children’s line of plush pillows from CJ Products, the idea is to collect accessories for your pets by completing each level. You also help pets find ...
Lego Life of George
Review excerpt: Lego Life of George lets you test your pattern matching skills under the pressure of a stop watch, providing you have a camera equipped iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad 2, ...
Cataline HD
Review excerpt: This 60 level physics game from Singapore lets you try to launch a kitten to catch fish. In order to advance to the next level, you have to calculate the angle correctly. ...
Nash Smasher!
Review excerpt: This 23 screen book is about Nash, a 7 year old boy who likes to break things — a theme that any child can understand. Each page has one or multi-stage hot spots, ...
uDraw GameTablet
Review excerpt: The versatile Wii Remote can become a graphics tablet when it is snapped inside the uDraw GameTablet from THQ (www.worldofudraw.com). The $70 Wii-only tablet will be ...
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Review excerpt: Based on the movie of the same name, this one player exploration game lets you become one of the main film characters, who must find evil Kitty Galore and her gang. ...
Letter Writer: Space
Review Excerpt: The second of two letter tracing apps (the first is Letter Writer: Oceans), this App combines a set of lower case letters with real space facts. For example, after you ...
Letter Writer: Oceans
Review Excerpt: The first of two letter tracing apps (the second is Letter Writer: Space, that deals with lower case letters), this App combines a set of upper case letters with real ...
Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3: The Video Game
Review Excerpt: In this game, you play as Buzz, Woody or Jessie as you run, ride and fly through scenes inspired by the film. For example, in one scene, you jump along the cars of a ...
Disney Stitch Jam
Review Excerpt: In this game, challenges are presented as side scrolling adventures. In order to advance, you have to exactly match each beat, presented in 10 locations such as a tropical ...
Dino Surf (App)
Review Excerpt: Based on the Webosaurs.com virtual world, this app features 3D versions of the Webosaurs’ characters including Stretch, Pterry, Horns and Rexxy. Players can race ...
Little People Farm Toys
Featuring good music and bad design, this preschool app starts with a view of a farm that was modeled after the original Little People farm toy set. Various items launch short animated ...
Sound Shaker
Want to see a 21st century rattle? Innovative and easy to use, this bite-sized App engages young children with music in a way that could only be done with a motion sensing device like ...
CocoNaut
Review Excerpt: This game utilizes your iPhone or iPod Touch’s accelerometer so that you can steer a flying monkey into the clouds by leaning your screen left or right, while ...
Beatles, The: Rock Band
The clean rhythms and addicting melodies of The Beatles map perfectly to the Rock Band format, in this best edition yet of Rock Band. While the format is the same as previous editions, ...
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