I love it when I find an app that’s both educational and appealing to my older children. They often seem like a neglected demographic in the App Store so it was nice to find Comixer – Comic Mixer. Comixer takes a variety of funny comic panels and lets users rearrange them to create their own [...]

Story Maker is a free app that allows you to create your own avatars and then use them to make a story. You can choose from a variety of faces, hair styles, clothing, accessories and shoes. Characters can then be named and saved for use in your stories. When you go to create a story [...]

Sketchaphone is part Pictionary, part Telephone and part storytelling. When you put all the parts together you end up with a fun multi-player game. Here’s how you play. Decide on the number of turns you will be playing for, you can play as few as three or as many as twelve. Choose to play with [...]

A little while ago I did a review of Toontastic. My children absolutely love that app and our iPad’s memory has been overtaken by their cartoons. This week I have a similar app to tell you about – PhotoPuppet HD. PhotoPuppet HD will allow you to make your own puppets and create detailed, animated films. [...]

I’m probably one of the least musical people you’ll ever meet but mScribble had me feeling like a semi-accomplished composer. This is an app that lets you improvise your own musical composition, just by using your finger on the touch screen. You begin by selecting background accompaniment. Where you tap, or scribble, determines what your [...]

Toontastic is one of the best iPad apps I’ve seen for unlocking your child’s creativity and setting their imagination free. This is one very cool app and one of the most exciting things I’ve seen in awhile.

One of the places that I have always wanted to visit is the Crayola crayon factory. I think it’d be fascinating to visit and watch how they mix their colors and create those beautiful crayons. There’s something about the look and smell of a brand new box of crayons that always makes me smile. They [...]

Faces iMake is not a typical drawing app. This one lets you make faces by taking objects and turning them into a collage. The app has 20 face shapes that you can use as a starting point. Then you can choose a category of objects and start adding things to your face. Some of the [...]