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Carissa's App Picks for Kids

High-quality apps you can feel good about using with your child.

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Featured App

Reviewed on 7/31/23

With all of the hype about the recent Barbie movie, why not try out a Barbie coloring app?  In the free version of this app, users can color a limited number of Barbie illustrations (including a Barbie with an artificial leg and vitiligo). There's a wide variety of colors, tints and shades as...

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Reviewed on 2/6/21

It's a good time of year to go out and try ice skating, but... maybe today is too cold.  Or maybe you can't get skates? Try out this Nice Skating app instead.  First, choose one of 4 skaters.  Then, help them refine their skating costume.  Last, draw their path on the ice.  Then, as they skate...

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Age group: Grades K-2
Reviewed on 2/6/21

A cooperative cooking game to play together with a group of people, each with their own screen! Combine ingredients on a plate as indicated on the "recipe" cards at the top of the screen. Once you've combined all of the ingredients, swipe the full order to the top of your screen to serve it. In...

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Reviewed on 2/6/21

In this app, explore 7 different animals (anaconda, macaw, spider monkey, jaguar, blue poison dart frog, electric eel and the pink Amazon River dolphin), both inside and out. For each animal, you can identify major body parts, then look at different layers (muscles, skeleton, digestive system (...

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Reviewed on 1/25/21

1. Minibombo apps by TIWI s.r.l. (Google Play & iOS, best for toddlers & preschoolers)

2. Pettson's Inventions by...

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Topics: Amazon, Google Play
Reviewed on 1/15/21

Welcome to the most complicated bakery ever!  Choose a pastry to make, then it goes into the "oven" where  players must move the pastry along a super long conveyor belt with ... complications. You might have  to press a button that bounces the pastry from one spot to the next or spin a wheel...

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Age group: Preschool, Grades K-2

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