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Top 14 Apps For Children: 2 to 12

The medium of games has changed in the past decade. Board games, card games, puzzles and toys are no longer as exciting and captivating as they used to be. The world of games is now stored in a small device known as the tablet. There are thousands of games out there for children of all ages. Take a look at our top 15 apps for children of varying ages, chosen based on their entertainment and educational value. Moreover, to protect their little eyes and give them an experience they won’t forget, a 10 inch tablet with a great screen resolution is recommended for viewing and playing.

Balloon Pops

Babies love tablets, phones, and other devices with animation, which is exactly why there are a number of apps developed just for babies. The Balloon Pops app enables hand-eye coordination through its wonderful animation and sounds. All the baby has to do is touch the balloon to see it pop and make an exciting noise.

Toddler Shapes

Similar to the famous shape-sorting cube, this app helps children learn their shapes, a fundamental step necessary for future learning, including for learning the alphabet and numbers. The game is stimulating and is a great way to spark their love of learning.

Endless Alphabet

As toddlers graduate from their Toddler Shapes Apps, the Endless Alphabet app offers a great transition. The app presents a number of mini games that introduce children to letters and words. The app is full of exciting spelling puzzles, which explain the meaning of the word with an entertaining animation.

Dr. Seuss Collection

This is a tablet app that’s wonderful for a range of ages. This classic children’s literature has been transformed into an incredible digital illustration. Now you can share this timeless treasure with your children, while reliving your cherished childhood memories.

Toca Nature

Children can venture into a world filled with amassing natural scenes from forests to mountains, and rivers. Children can create their own virtual, wild world, learn how to plant trees, plants and flowers, and how to take care of animals.

Super Family Hero

A tablet app for kids and the entire family. If your kids are tired of board games, this tablet app may reignite the love of family games. Create your own avatar and enter a world of adventures and battles.

Lego Nexo Knights: Merlock 2.0

An app for children with greater tablet skills, this action-packed app is sure to spark their imagination and love of Legos. Children traverse into the world of lava monsters and unlock various location and weapons to find and destroy the lava monsters. It’s the current must-have app for children.

PicsArt Kids

For children that are interested in art, photography and design, PicsArt Kids tablet app is a wonderful gift or addition. It’s a fantastic drawing and doodling app packed with activities for parents and kids to spend some time together and express their creativity. It includes a blank canvas, mazes and puzzles, colouring and doodling mode.

Dino Walk

Dino Walk is a great app for the little palaeontologist in your life. It will take your child back to the Jurassic period and teach the evolution of the world through stunning visuals and animations. It’s entertaining and full of educational facts.

Minecraft Pocket Edition

Minecraft is the ultimate digital building app for older children. It encourages creativity, use of logic and reasoning. Your child will be taken into a domain where they can create and shape their own world by building houses and other structures.

DreamWorks Dragons Adventure World Explorer

The perfect game to entertain children while on road trips or on the road. The game uses the Nokia’s Here Maps to transform the world around them into an exciting quest, which is based on the film “How To Train Your Dragon”.

Math Bingo

An educational tablet app, Math Bingo helps children learn how to solve math problems. It contains addition and subtraction as well as multiplication games, and is the perfect test prep tool for kids who shy away from math.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy is a treasure trove of apps from math, science, history and more. It can work as an additional learning tool for your child to follow along with their courses, or a great way to get ahead of their peers and dive deeper into subjects that they have a particular interest in.

TED

The TED app is a great source of videos by the intellectuals of the day. Your child will be exposed to fascinating facts and ideas with an option of hundreds of topics. It’s an app that may just inspire critical thinking and show what an individual is capable of if only they try.

There you have it, the top 14 apps that include games and educational tools for children. They will be learning and developing critical skills before they know it, masked under awesome games and animations.

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