Five Best Apps For Kids

30 Jan Five Best Apps For Kids

One of the hardest things about being a parent these days is not being consumed with jealousy at all the best apps for kids. Plus there are some really great games like joka room casino.

Of course, the flip side to the boom in fun-educational (and just plain fun) apps is that the options for keeping ‘mini you’ entertained on long holiday journeys are seemingly infinite.

Yet not all kid-focused apps and games are made equal. That’s why, after weeks of testing on the Stuff team’s eventual successors, we’ve narrowed down the most absorbing, ingenious apps for all age groups, from pre-schoolers and primary school kids to bigger kids – including you.

Automatoys

There’s a point where every kid eyes up a marble run and give their parent/guardian ‘big eyes’. Then, shortly after receiving the marble run, said kid gets bored with how little they can do with it. Hence: Automatoys.

We’re not going to pretend there’s a lot of educational value here. Automatoys is almost gleefully simplistic with its one-thumb interaction model, a tap simultaneously activating all of a machine’s moveable components, courtesy of casinojoka casino en ligne.

But this game/toy is lots of fun. There’s so much imagination in each colourful contraption. There’s genuine skill and timing in getting the marble to the goal. And at two quid for the full set of a dozen virtual toys, it’s a whole lot cheaper than any pile of plastic parts.

Toca Nature

Imagine Populous merged with a children’s nature book and that’s Toca Nature. Your tiny person can build hills and dig channels for rivers and lakes, all without getting their hands dirty. Trees are then planted with taps, whereupon rabbits, bears, fish and beavers start mooching about their respective habitats.

Your youngling can then observe their creation from above, like a miniature god, or use the magnifying glass to get up close and personal, lobbing acorns and fruit at their adoring furry and fishy subjects.

Pok Pok Playroom

The idea behind Pok Pok Playroom is to create a safe exploration-oriented play environment for children that echoes what they might find in the real world. Its games are therefore open-ended and risk-free, but afford young children the means to experiment and grow as they discover new things.

From a visual standpoint, its colourful and minimal aesthetic comes across as friendly and offers great clarity. On the larger display of an iPad, it’s friendly for smaller fingers still discovering their dexterity. The subscription is a touch ambitious, but the app does regularly receive new toys, and at the very least it’s worth trying for a few months to see whether it clicks with your younglings.

Thinkrolls: Kings & Queens

All of the entries in the Thinkrolls series are great; but this latest slice of gentle gaming fun brings a regal air to its dozens of logic and gravity puzzles (in the sense the roly-poly protagonists wear crowns unless you decide to – for some reason – play as a chicken).

The goal is to clear a pathway so the rotund hero can continue progressing through a massive maze. The snag involves figuring out how to work with all kinds of contraptions, like gears, bridges, hatches, and even a harp that makes an otherwise ravenous crocodile sleepy.

Just the thing to get tiny minds working overtime, while sneakily getting them interested in video games.

Endless Alphabet

If you’ve tiny humans toddling about, chances are you’ll own some wooden puzzles where letters are slotted into a board. If you’re very fortunate, you’ll still actually have a few of the letters, rather than a sad infant pointing forlornly at gaps.

Endless Alphabet should take their minds off of such losses, with dozens of words to sort by dragging letters about, and a bunch of amusing animations when each word is completed. There’s the odd Americanism lurking, but if you can hold yourself back from hurling your device from a moving car on seeing ‘odour’ lacking a ‘u’, you’ll be fine.