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iPad Apps For Littles
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items I love all of these apps for different reasons but they all encourage learning and they are all apps that kids love!
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Free Apps
Coding Apps
Great Apps for Letters
Free Apps
These apps are completely free. Some of them may have in app purchases but for the most part are completely free!
Hands down my favorite free app. This is great for students getting ready for Kindergarten or kids in Kindergarten. It helps them practice learning the letter in their own name as well as writing it. One of my faves for Kindergarten!
Duolingo ABC
This is a favorite for any kids that like oceans and ocean animals. The kids love exploring the animals!
MarcoPolo Ocean on the App Store
This is a great app to learn about different types of weather as well as appropriate ways to dress with different types of weather. The kids love to make a huge storm or make it freezing cold!
MarcoPolo Weather - Apps on Google Play
This first world of this app is free and great to see if your child is going to like the game. The animals are super cute and teaches kids directional coding. They love when they get the stickers!
Hopster Coding Safari for Kids 4+ - App Store
Need a fun way to practice writing letters or sounds? This app is amazing for that! You can even use it just to draw fun pictures! This is a fun app for all ages!
Joy Doodle: Movie Color & Draw 4+ - App Store
I can't say enough about this! You have to buy the kit for the iPad but they have kits for letters, coding, drawing, and more! So much fun for all kids!
Osmo - Genius Starter Kit for Fire Tablet-5 Educational Learning Games-Ages 6-10-Spelling, Math & Creativity-STEM Toy Gifts-Boy & Girl-Ages 6 7 8 9 10(Osmo Fire Tablet Base Included-Amazon Exclusive)
This is such a fun app for storytelling. The kids can move the characters around and record their voice making different stories! So fun for igniting creativity!
Puppet Pals HD on the App Store
This teaches kids foundational skills to drap and drop, play tic tac toe, etc. The graphics make the app super engaging and fun for kids.
Bugs and Buttons on the App Store - Apple
Coding Apps
Codig is such a valuable skill. Teach your child the basic skills early by downloading some of these super fun apps.
Hands down the kids favorite coding app! Kids through fourth grade will beg to play this. It is such a fun way to learning coding and there are many different worlds and levels. Kids can even make their own customized video game. An Absolute FAVE!
codeSpark Academy: Coding App for Kids
This first few levels of this app are free and then you can pay for more levels. My kids like doing the first couple levels as it is a fun way to teach directional coding.
Code Karts Pre-coding for kids - Apps on Google Play
If you child loves to make stories, this app is amazing! It's great for beginners as young as Kindergarten to learn coding, customize characters and even add in pictures of themselves!
ScratchJr - Home
This app is fun for coding. The kids enjoy getting and customizing the fuzz people as you teach them coding. This is a great way to start learning coding but also teacher more difficult concepts such as if/then sequences.
Kodable
This is great for littles! A fun way to learn coding. They can code music, make cards, code superheroes, so many options in this app!
Learn to Code with the Tynker Junior App
Great Apps for Letters
This app is great for learning letters. There are fun songs, the letters are interactive, they can type the letters/words, and practice writing the letters by tracing them.
Interactive Alphabet ABC's 4+ - App Store
The kids love this app for learning to read and write letters. If your child loves trains, this is for you!
ABC Kids - Tracing & Phonics on the App Store - Apple