The new Feed the Monster game by Huminah Huminah Animation is an app that kids of any age will have fun playing. Children (and adults) can design their own monster to play with; change your monster’s body shape, eyes, arms, legs, horns, mouth, color, and name. Once the monster is looking just right it is [...]

In July I reviewed the app Kezza bee Farm Adventures and now just about a month later the adorable bee is back with a brand new game. This time the app is called Kezza bee PeekaBoo 3D and unlike the first app this one isn’t presented as a story. This is a game and it’s [...]

I’m all for educational apps for my children but I like to keep things fun by having games available too. Each of my children like different types of games. I have a daughter who loves word games, another who is addicted to the Dash type apps (Diner Dash, Wedding Dash). My son likes games that [...]

Jumbled is a new app from Drew, a fourteen year old app developer who is behind several other iPhone apps. Drew has created a word game that’s definitely unique and unlike any other I’ve seen. To solve a Jumbled puzzle you must do two things. The first is to unscramble a string of letters, forming [...]

Highlights recently released a “junior” version of their Hidden Pictures app. The concept of the new app is the same – find hidden pictures in puzzles taken from the Highlights magazine – but the pictures have been tailored to younger players. When I say younger I mean older preschoolers, not toddlers. The puzzles are easier [...]

Mother Earth’s Preschool: Learning Birds combines poetry with bird names and sounds. The app presents twelve different birds. Your child will choose a bird and will then hear three different bird calls. They must listen to the sounds and then select the call that goes with the bird. If they are correct they will be [...]

HexaLex is a Scrabble like word game that is played out on a hexagon shaped board with hexagon tiles. You are given seven letter tiles and asked to make a word. Given the shape of the board it’s possible to end up with more than one word per play. Points are tabulated for the different [...]

A quick note about an app called CityStory. It’s described as something between Farmville and SimCity. The app is free and you can read about it in iTunes here. If anyone has tried the game please let us know your thoughts.

Match aPhoto is a memory game that is played with real photographs. The photographs are very sharp and clear and it’s nice to see real objects in a memory game. The app provides you with several different photograph albums and you choose the albums you’d like to play memory with. Choices include space, animals, cats, [...]

Match 10 is a matching game that features sharp, crisp photographs on the game cards. The cards are sorted into different categories: flowers, fruit, insects, roadwork, sports, veggies and zoo. You can also create your own matching game by adding in ten photos of your own. The app allows you to zoom and get the [...]