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Carissa's App Picks for Kids

High-quality apps you can feel good about using with your child.

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View videos of Carissa's Top Five Picks for Apps in various categories.

Featured App

Reviewed on 7/31/23

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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Reviewed on 11/12/19

A story-starter, in French or English!  With simple design, this app allows players to mix and match phrases to make sentences from the sublime to the ridiculous. If you hit the button in the top right corner, you can hear sounds associated with each of the phrases ("kisses" gets a kissing sound...

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Age group: Preschool, Grades K-2
Reviewed on 10/29/19

A charming sing-along (or read-along) app based on the song (and board book) "Skeletitos" with the catchy chorus, "tumba-laca, tumba-laca, tumba, tumba..."  It's a song about Dia de los Muertos, skeletons, and telling time and the illustrations (as well as the song) are full of beautiful Latinx...

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Age group: Baby/toddler, Preschool
Reviewed on 10/29/19

A news app specifically designed for kids.  Each day, 5 new articles are posted with topics ranging from human interest (it's right before Halloween as I'm writing this review and today's top story is about a candy maker) to world news (there's also an article about the presidential election in...

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Age group: Grades K-2, Grades 3-5
Reviewed on 10/29/19

Similar in format to Sago Mini Road Trip or Sago Mini Airplanes, in Trains players must first choose which train they want to use. Their chosen train appears on the next screen at one of six train stations that are around the track that runs through this game.  The track runs through several...

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Age group: Baby/toddler, Preschool
Reviewed on 10/29/19

A spooky, Halloween version of the Where is my Hat? app reviewed earlier on this site.  The hats are spookier, the costumes are costume-ier and there are spiders in their webs in the corners of this app, but other than that, it's pretty much the same as the original, but... it's free!  Once...

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Age group: Preschool, Grades K-2

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