Carissa's App Picks for Kids

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Rebel Girls App

Rebel Girls, Inc.

Reviewed on 8/12/22

Freemium on iOS

By the same folks that brought us the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls books, now you can listen to the stories through an app! Stories of women and girls from long ago or from right now, from artists and activists, to scientists and athletes, and from all over the world.... there's a wide...

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Age group: Grades K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Topics: Book App, Diversity, Family Play, Growing Up, NBC15, Stories

cooked Shrimp on top of diagonal stripe background

Family Style: Co-op Kitchen

Chef Party, LLC

Reviewed on 2/6/21

Freemium on iOS | Google Play

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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Age group: Grades K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Topics: Family Play, Games, Google Play, Multiplayer, NBC15

blue frog with a cutaway body revealing inner anatomy

How do Animals Work?

Learny Land

Reviewed on 2/6/21

Paid on iOS

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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Age group: Preschool, Grades K-2, Grades 3-5

Topics: Animals, Concepts, Growing Up, Nature, NBC15, Science, Spanish, STEM, Vocabulary

Top 5 Android Apps for Kids

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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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Age group: Baby/toddler, Preschool, Grades K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Topics: Amazon, Google Play

Raccoon chef bites into giant donut with rainbow sprinkles

Pango Bakery

Studio Pango

Reviewed on 1/15/21

Freemium on iOS | Google Play | Amazon

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

Topics: Amazon, Engineering, Games, Google Play, STEM

pink rabbit, blue bird and yellow chick on a black background

The Other Way Round

Minibombo / TIWI s.r.l.

Reviewed on 1/9/21

Paid on iOS | Google Play

Minibombo's newest app is all about opposites. In this app, appropriate for even the youngest players, you first choose which animal you'd like to play with. Each animal then has a series of opposite options. Players can choose whether the animal might be tall or short, for example, or far or...

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Age group: Baby/toddler, Preschool, Grades K-2

Topics: Animals, Book App, Concepts, Early Literacy, Favorites, Google Play, NBC15, Spanish, Vocabulary