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StoryBots Tap & Sing
Review Excerpt: This is a living xylophone that has keys that can teach you songs. Each note on the two octave scale is represented by one of JibJab’s StoryBot characters. You ...
Pitch Painter
Review Excerpt: This is a musical finger painting app that lets children create music, while introducing them to a variety of musical instrumental sounds and authentic scale tunings ...
Kids Sounds
The idea of linking animated images with sounds is a good one, especially because it lets children play with layers of sound; a good way to let them discover the elements of music. ...
Leo Lion Band
Review Excerpt: Children can mix-and-match their melodies by building a band out of animated animals. Content includes three songs (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, If You’re Happy ...
SiNG Party
Review Excerpt: SiNG Party is a musical performance game based around popular songs. In “Party” mode, the lead singer uses the Wii U GamePad controller to view lyrics and receive ...
My First Orchestra App
Review Excerpt: This British music app is designed to let children explore the instruments in the symphonic orchestra. Thirty lengthy (but still excerpted) music selections feature ...
Mibblio
Review Excerpt: This musical sandbox makes it possible for children to mix and match musical elements as they hear a song sung to them. It’s a bit like a play-back only Garage ...
Endless Alphabet
Review Excerpt: This app playfully introduces each letter, and shows children how the letters can be combined, like a jigsaw puzzle, to make words. Each letter becomes animated, sounds ...
Sesame Street Elmo’s Musical Monsterpiece The Videogame
Review Excerpt: Excellent Sesame Street programming is sandwiched between 18 clumsy games that deal with basic musical concepts. For the Wii version, you hold the Wii Controller handlebar ...
Little Fox Music Box
Review Excerpt: Little Fox Music Box is a sing-along songbook with 100 interactive elements that have been embedded in three classic songs: London Bridge, Evening Song and Old MacDonald ...
Old MacDonald
Review excerpt: Sing-along with the famous Old MacDonald as your iPad or iPhone plays your background music. Your voice is recorded and saved, so the next time you start the app, you ...
Perfect Pitch Piano
Review excerpt: Perfect Pitch Piano (PPPiano) is designed to teach you to play piano by ear, by playing a copy-cat style game with your iPad. Your screen displays a large, responsive ...
Numberlys, The
Review excerpt: The Numberlys comes from the studio that created The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Lawrence Lessmore, directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg of Moonbot Studios. ...
Putt Putt Saves the Zoo (iPad)
Review excerpt: This title has been rereleased several times over the years (this is the 16th Putt Putt title in our database). In 2008, it was sold at retail computers.
In case you ...
It’s A Small World
Review excerpt: The iPad edition of the famous Disney theme-park ride lets you touch-and-explore 16 watercolor scenes depicting various parts of a happy, exotic world where everyone ...
A Jazzy Day
Review excerpt: Designed to introduce young children to Jazz music and it’s instruments, this app follows two children as they explore the Jazz Big Band, where they discover the ...
Rhythm Heaven Fever
Review excerpt: After you choose one of the four game save slots to save your progress, you can take the tutorial, which is recommended, to learn how to master each one of the 50 levels. ...
Magic Guitar
Review excerpt: Turn your slippery iPhone screen into a guitar fretboard with this Magic Guitar app with this follow-along style app that lets you mimic various guitar styles. You hold ...
Dr. Seuss Band
Review excerpt: Transform your iPad into a zany Dr. Seuss horn, with eight buttons, arranged as a whole-tone. Content includes 10 songs, including the soundtrack from The Cat in the ...
Charlie Brown Christmas, A
Review excerpt: Loud Crow Interactive and Peanuts Worldwide have partnered to produced a series of digital interactive books based on the cartoon specials. The first in the series, ...
Sing N’ Match: Head To Toes!
Review excerpt: This app is designed to introduce children to parts of the body. There are three screens: Learn, Match and Compose. Learn lets children watch and listen; Match lets ...
I Am T-Pain Mic
Review excerpt: I Am T-Pain Mic ($40, Jakks Pacific) combines three rhythm tracks, an MP3 Player, auto-tune technology, a speaker, an audio-out jack and a USB port, with enough memory ...
Rock Star Mickey
Review excerpt: This Mickey Mouse follows last year’s larger, heavier, gyrating Dance Star Mickey. This time Mickey comes pre-dressed in rock star gear that includes sunglasses ...
Let’s Rock Elmo
Review excerpt: Powered by six AA batteries, Let’s Rock Elmo comes with three small plastic instruments, two of which are playable (the drums and tambourine). Elmo’s hands ...
Happy Feet Two – The Videogame
Review excerpt: Here’s what you get when you cross a frozen Antarctic world full of penguins with a Guitar Hero theme. The musical rhythm adventure game for one or two players ...
Zizu Cooks up a Tune
This animated music app looks good but could become costly, because of the way it asks children to buy more songs using the in-app sales feature. Each additional song costs $.99 each. ...
Smurfs Dance Party, The
Review excerpt: This Wii-only, follow-along dancing program is based on the movie, The Smurfs. Content includes 20 dances, each with different sets of moves illustrated by a small squad ...
Baby’s Musical Hands
Review excerpt: Sometimes an app is good because of what it doesn’t do, instead of what it does. Consisting of nothing more than three rows of five brightly colored musical squares, ...
Musical Me!
Review excerpt: This app features five games that introduce basic musical concepts, namely pitch, rhythm and notes. To move between the activities, you touch a mouse who flies to the ...
Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do
Review excerpt: In this set of 20 carnival inspired games, you will leap into the air on a Rocket to Mars, catch coins on a roller coaster, twist your body in Crash Test Dummy, avoid ...
Toontastic
Review excerpt: Why watch a cartoon when you can make one? This pirate-themed cartoon storyboarding toolkit exploits the iPad’s microphone, touch screen and web connectivity for ...
Zumba Fitness
Review excerpt: This Zumba exercise game lets you learn and practice nine dance styles including Reggaeton, Merengue, Salsa, Cumbia, Hip-Hop, Mambo, Rumba, Flamenco and Calypso. Content ...
Magic Fiddle
Review excerpt: Smule’s second music simulator is equally as amazing as it’s first — Magic Piano — but, like the instrument it emulates, it’s harder to ...
Boogie Bopper
Review excerpt: Part of the Tickle Tap Apps series, Boogie Bopper lets children play ten simple melodies like Bingo and Mary Had a Little Lamb by touching a rainbow shaped xylophone, ...
SingStar Dance Party Pack
Review excerpt: The latest in the SingStar series, this party pack comes with the SingStar Dance game, two microphones, and SingStar USB converter. It combines both singing and dancing ...
Dance Central
Review excerpt: After you log in, choose a song and a difficulty level, you see yourself represented on the screen by a male or female dancer. Your goal is to follow along, copy-cat ...
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