Showing posts with label iTunes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iTunes. Show all posts

Monday, February 25, 2013

Little Stars



Opening Screen
Game Play

The Little Stars Toddler App on the iPad by Alligator Apps is a fun and well laid out app for toddlers. It covers everything from the alphabet and numbers, to letter sounds and farm animals. Within the settings menu, they even give you the option of which flash card topics to include. Also, they allow you to customize the success sounds and game effects to suit the child. There is even a two player mode that allows two children to play at once.

Sticker Reward
Mission Report

There is an audible voice that tells the child what it should look for. Every few questions that is answered correctly, the child is rewarded with a sticker that they can choose and stick to their solar system background.  The stickers seem to have a broad option so that the child doesn't get the same one over and over. My daughter loves the sticker part as well as the success sounds telling her she has done a good job. Once they have completed the mission, they get a mission report telling them, and the parent, the success rate and what was included in that particular mission. This is a great app that I would recommend to anyone with a toddler.

There are so many!

There are nearly FIVE THOUSAND apps for toddlers on Apple's App store!


Okay, so technically 4,691 apps.
When is the last time you did a search on the iTunes app store for an app for a toddler? If you never have, you really should. There are so many apps on there, it is difficult to figure out which ones are worth your time and which ones are perpetual ads that will just frustrate you and your toddler. You think that you can narrow it down by being specific? Ha! It doesn't help at all. That is where my blog comes in. Hopefully some of the app reviews that I will post will help you in your search for educational and entertaining apps for your toddler. 

Along the way I will also post some gadget reviews and some fun and simple kid crafts (because they need to go analog sometimes, too).