Children'sEssentials Summer 2014 | Page 30

technology Happipets Monkey Preschool Lunchbox PrestoBingo Shapes (Ages 4-8) This fun app is to get your child's creative juices flowing by using shapes and letters to create their own creature or pet. There are three different levels, the animals can either look real or very abstract. Your child will have lots of fun playing and naming their personalized Happipet. (Ages 4-8) Get you child adapt to reading easy words and matching them up with an object by helping the cute little monkey fill his lunch box. The monkey will provide a color or word and the child must choose the right object on the screen. Adults may have to help the kids by reading some words but it is a great learning tool for preschoolers and kindergartners who are just learning how to read. (Ages 5 and up) This app provides a large scale of difficulty levels that challenges all ages. The app has many different pictures that have hidden shapes and objects to find. The easier levels can be used as a great learning technique for your children that are in the process of learning shapes and objects. Doodle Jump Planes - Byron Barton The Numberlys (Ages 3 and up) This is a relaxing app for all ages but gets very addicting the more you play. It is called doodle because the characters look as a though a child doodled them. While the doodled characters jump vertically, the player has to tilt the phone from side to side to land on the platforms so they don't fall. The game is easy to play but very difficult to master. The fun, innocent game will get the whole family playing against each other. (Ages 5-8) Your children will love reading the moving stories on the Planes app. The words are pretty basic; however, if they get stumped on a word(s), they can tap on the word(s) and the app will say the word(s) out loud. This is a great technique to get your children to start reading. The moving pictures will definitely captivate the child's imagination and keep them entertained for hours. (Ages 7 and up) This app is more than your usual app because it contains a movie, a book, and an alphabet game. The Numberlys starts out as a story and as it progresses, it turns into a game of learning and creating objects and numbers. The whole family will get into the game and want to know how the story ends. It will definitely force your children to think creativity by remaking The Numberlys world by tapping, flicking, and bending number into letters. Let your child's imagination run free! *Learn more and download these apps by visiting 30 | children’sessentials www.newchildrensessentials.com google play store and/or iTunes app store.