OWTK Games + Apps
on July 13, 2012 at 10:32 am ×
I reviewed the then-new app for kids My PlayHome nearly 1 year ago. We loved it. Since, there’s been a trio of brilliant updates — the most recent of which came yesterday — adding a backyard with tree house, veggie garden, and working trampoline, a parent’s room with hats & […]
OWTK Games + Apps
on June 25, 2012 at 10:04 pm ×
If you’ve got an iOS device in your technology arsenal and a below-waist-high child in your care, you likely own a Toca Boca game. Or two. Or three. They are one of thee premier developers of apps for kids. We’ve got them all, and a dedicated Toca folder on our iPhones […]
OWTK Games + Apps
on June 11, 2012 at 7:37 am ×
It’s only a dollar, 100 pennies shiny or dull, yet there exists in my mind a quantum leap between a $.99 app and one worth $1.99. ********** Miny Moe Car, an iPad & iPhone app seemingly constructed lovingly out of the finest scrapbook paper, offers your younger children — specifically […]
OWTK Games + Apps
on May 24, 2012 at 1:52 pm ×
The fun won’t last forever. No, this isn’t a Debbie-downer treatise on childhood’s carefree exploits. The delight of the new-ish iOS/Android app Pepi Bath, like the responsibilitylessness of youth, lasts for only so long. But when it’s fresh, it’s soooo great. The app, designed for iPhone/iPad as well as for […]
OWTK Games + Apps
on May 16, 2012 at 3:16 pm ×
Since the mega-success of Angry Birds, many an app developer has dreamed of following that lead and branching out into toys, books, clothes, commercials, and more. It may very well never happen again – a $1 app becoming a cross-culturally saturated property – but we will see more break out […]
OWTK Games + Apps
on May 10, 2012 at 10:15 am ×
A versatile letter recognition-cum-art design app that is as eye-candy-delicious as it is finger-licking-good. How odd, I wasn’t even a teensy bit hungry as I typed that opening sentence. Hmmm. Oh, and kids, don’t lick your fingers whilst playing on your papa’s iPad. K? Moving right along… The multifaceted Happipets […]
OWTK Games + Apps
on May 9, 2012 at 10:49 am ×
Build cars, race them, unlock new auto parts and tracks; the Mouse’s new favorite iPad app provides all of that fun in a crisp interface allowing young children to quickly construct sensible, or completely ridiculous, vehicles, before zooming around one of three racetracks. As a child progresses through Build Cars […]
OWTK Games + Apps
on December 10, 2011 at 10:58 am ×
While the app-loving world eagerly awaits its arrival on 12/15, we’ve been fortunate enough to be playing Toca Boca’s latest gorgeous, multi-touch iOS iPad/iPhone app Toca Kitchen for a couple of weeks now. Known worldwide already for their dazzling Tea Party, Hair Salon (a 12/9 update of which allows for […]