Posts Tagged ‘apps for kids’

iPad App for Kids Review: Princess Arabella Wants To Play

Tweet The Princess Arabella Wants To Play iPad storybook app, based on the books by Mylo Freeman, is a captivating long-form story complimented by bold watercolor paintings that’s as engrossing as any traditional children’s book we’ve...
July 15th, 2011 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews, OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

Watch This: Fruit Ninja Xbox 360 Kinect Video Game Trailer

Tweet If you love the Fruit Ninja app [hand raised] and have Xbox 360 Kinect [sad lip], you’re gonna wanna watch this. The Kinect game might not be quite as fun as actually battling a dude in a watermelon costume, but damn it’s probably...
June 9th, 2011 | OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

iPhone App for Kids Review: Oobie’s Space Adventure

Tweet Oobie’s Space Adventure from VHS Design It’s short, it’s simple, it’s cute, it’s free. The Mouse almost always plays Oobie’s Space Adventure 3 or 4 times consecutively, mostly to hear the repetitive but...
June 7th, 2011 | OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

Once Upon A Potty – A Classic Goes Digital

Tweet After hearing a heartbreaking story of a toilet-bound iDevice, I’ve become a hawk whenever the Bear or Mouse have a piece of fancy electronica in hand. My girls aren’t allowed near the bathroom with my iPhone. I recommended you...
June 2nd, 2011 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews, OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

Seuss Crazy

Tweet My interest in Dr. Seuss ebbs and flows and, by proximity, so does my children’s.  But just as it was in September 2010 when we four frolicked in Seuss World at Universal Studios Florida, our family’s current answer to “would...
April 18th, 2011 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews, OWTK TECH REVIEWS, OWTK THEATER REVIEWS | Read More

Free iPhone App for Kids: Dr. Noize’s Bananas

Free iPhone App for Kids: Dr. Noize’s Bananas
Tweet It’s a good week to be a monkey. That is, assuming your name is Phineas McBoof. Dr. Noize’s hit iPhone app BANANAS has been updated to include Riley Robot and, the best news, is now 100% free. Download it here. Still not convinced...
April 7th, 2011 | OWTK Kid's Music News, OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

iPhone App for Kids Review: Jellytoons

Tweet Jellytoons is a colorful toddler-targeted iPhone & iPad app containing 6-mini games designed to introduce and/or reinforce basic concepts of sorting, counting, shapes, matching and also allows children to practice their fine motor skills....
March 30th, 2011 | OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

Kid’s Book Review: Press Here

Kid’s Book Review: Press Here
Tweet It’s 2011.  Our electronic gadgetry responds to taps, swipes, sounds, and breath.  The notion that a book – a flat, relatively non-interactive form of media – could approximate such feats of wonder seems damn near impossible. ...
March 24th, 2011 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews | Read More

iPhone App for Kids Review: Measurement

Tweet When we first downloaded the 5-in-1 Mathomatix Measurement app a couple months ago the Bear (age 7) would help the Mouse (age 3.75) play which was both nurturing and beautiful to watch.  The lessons are simple and the repetition effective...
February 25th, 2011 | OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

iPhone Apps for Kids Review: Magic Ink Books

Tweet Remember those Invisible Ink Books your mom would buy for the long & boring road trips to Grandma’s house?  You’d rub all over with that curious, rather bland-looking marker, then squeal with delight as images magically appeared.  ...
January 13th, 2011 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews, OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More
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