Crazy Shapes is a bit of a twist on a labyrinth game. In a labyrinth app you would tilt your iPhone to make a ball roll around the screen into a hole. When you play Crazy Shapes you use your finger to tap and drag a shape around the screen into a hole. So I [...]

Duck Duck Moose recently released an HD iPad version of their app Itsy Bitsy Spider. This was not my favorite of Duck Duck Moose’s iPhone apps but I love it on the iPad. It felt busy to me on the iPhone screen but everything works very well on the larger iPad. To move through the [...]

Preschool Memory Match is another great app from developer Darren Murtha. The app is “universal” which means it will work on an iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. I tried it out on both my iPhone 4 and iPad and the graphics looked terrific. The game is broken down into three different levels: easy, medium and [...]

The Crazy Balloons app contains four games featuring, you guessed it!, balloons. Here’s an overview of what each game has to offer. Easy Jump Pop – In this game your child will see a porcupine and a number of floating balloons on the screen. They’ll need to tap the screen to make the porcupine jump. [...]

Let’s Bead Friends is a great app for girls. Both my eight year old and my eleven year old enjoy this one. It allows you to create friendship bracelets and then email them to friends or add them to Facebook. To create a bracelet you select a bead (there are five shapes to choose from), [...]

Up With a Fish! is a game based on Dr. Seuss’ classic, The Cat in the Hat. When you play the game you’ll find that infamous cat on your iPhone screen. You must tilt your phone to move him from left to right. Why? There are objects falling from the sky and the Cat must [...]

I’ve always enjoyed Skinny Cow ice cream treats. They’re a great way to indulge without blowing a day’s worth of calories on one dessert. My problem comes when I don’t stop at just one Skinny Cow treat. I often find myself having several because hey, they don’t have that many calories so if I have [...]

DreamScape is a simple yet addicting game. I didn’t find it addicting in the maddening way of Angry Birds, but I did find myself caught up in it. The idea of the game is simple, pop as many bubbles on the screen as you can. The bubbles move around the screen and overlap each other. [...]

Monkey Math is an iPad app that is designed to help children practice their multiplication tables. The app contains two games, Chains and Times Tables. In Chains your child answers a math problem, taps on the card with the correct answer and watches it flip over to reveal another problem. They continue this process until [...]

Lola’s Alphabet Train is the follow up app to Lola’s Flag Adventure. Lola the panda bear is back and this time she’s conducting her very own train. It’s a train that makes frequent stops and at each stop Lola must complete an activity involving letters and reading. Your child’s task is to help Lola correctly [...]