Friday Findings

Kindermusik Radio App - The Kindermusik Radio App streams five Kindermusik stations to your iDevice. Each station plays a different type of song but all together you’ll have access to more than 100 children’s songs. Songs include lyrics and suggestions for activities to accompany the music. There’s even an option to “play along” on an instrument. This lets your child play a virtual egg shaker, tambourine, guiro, castanets or tom tom by tapping on the screen. The Kindermusik stations include the following: Bounces & Rhymes, Animals, Get Up & Move!, Mostly Lullabies and Tell Me a Story. The app has a nice color scheme and is very easy to navigate. You can’t skip ahead past songs but you are allowed to stop the music and switch stations at anytime. You will need internet access to operate Kindermusik Radio App. My selection of children’s music is fairly limited so this is a nice way to put a variety of songs and styles onto my device. This app comes from Night & Day Studios and a Lite version is available if you’d like to try that first.   Price when Reviewed: $1.99 ~ See Kindermusik in iTunes

Quibble Kids - Quibble Kids is a slick matching game that will get your children thinking. It’s not like your traditional memory game where you are flipping over cards, looking for matching images. In Quibble your child will be shown four cubes. Each cube has four images on it, one on each side. Your child will need to look at the images on the cube and see if they have anything in common. If they don’t then they’ll want to rotate a cube and look at another image. They’ll continue to do this until they’ve found the four images that go together. They won’t be matching images, they will be images that relate to each other. It will give your child something to think on. After one side of the puzzle has been solved they’ll need to take a look at the images on the other sides of the cubes and match those up. Quibble Kids awards points as your child solves the puzzles. In addition to the picture matching you can preview math, animal and word match puzzles. If you like what you see you may purchase additional puzzles for $.99 each. Quibble Kids has a very nice interface and it was extremely easy to learn how to play. This would be a good beginning logic game for Preschool and Kindergartners and older children would be challenged by the additional puzzle packs. Price when Reviewed: $1.99 ~ See Quibble Kids in iTunes

The Olive Oil - Here’s an app that might be of interest to the foodies out there. If my husband is reading today, I mean you dear. The Olive Oil app takes a look at the history, types, tastes and more of olive oil. It has information to help you determine which olive oil is best for different foods and how to read the labels so you know what you’re getting. If any readers give this one a try in the kitchen come back and let us know what you learned and how dinner tasted. Price when Reviewed: $.99 ~ See The Olive OIl in iTunes

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