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With all of the hype about the recent Barbie movie, why not try out a Barbie coloring app? In the free version of this app, users can color a limited number of Barbie illustrations (including a Barbie with an artificial leg and vitiligo). There's a wide variety of colors, tints and shades as...
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A word game for anyone old enough to spell (including adults!). In this app, letters "march" across the screen and you must tap the last letter in the line that finishes a word. For instance, if the letters "C-A-T-N" march across the screen, you can tap on the T to capture the word "CAT" or...
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A book app about a boy who finds "a little piece of line" and picks it up. The story follows the adventures of the boy and the line throughout his life and offers the readers opportunities to draw pictures with the line (or erase lines) at points in the story that move the story along. The...
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The original Hideout app was one of my first reviews for this site. Amazingly, that app is still around and has had elements added to the original "treehouse" to make it even bigger. Now, there's also another Hideout app...
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A pleasing simple music creation app by the band, Lullatone. This app features a grid of 30 grey raindrop images. When you tap a raindrop, it makes a sound and turns a color (that drop only ever makes that particular sound and turns that particular color). Over the next six seconds, the color...
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A simple but surreal matching game with a draw-your-own option. In this game, first choose your language (English, French, Spanish or German), then match the colored shape (based on a pear shape, but with extra bits added) to an outline that will make it into an animal (or just enjoy the funny...
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