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Best Educational Games and Apps for Children
Educational App Store is the home of fun and educational games and apps for all ages to play and learn at the same time. The best way to get your child to embrace learning is to make it fun. Now you can do just that by encouraging them to play games and apps in their iPads and android devices. We have selected a variety of educational apps and games for kids including word, puzzle, math, geography, arcade, sports, and typing games. Some are educational games (i.e math, geography, etc.) and some are just for fun (i.e. arcade, sports).
Check out our extensive collection of game apps for kids that includes interactive science games, brain games, science quizzes, puzzles and activities that will allow parents to make a sensible choice and keep their kids entertained!
Zebrainy: kids learning games is an easy to use, educational app featuring games, stories, cartoons, letters, numeracy, sizes, colours, shapes and much more. This app is suitable for ages 2 to 6 and helps develop emotional intelligence, logic and reasoning. The app is based on the adventures of a Zebra who travels to a number of wonderful places where they encounter problem-solving activities and interactive storytelling. This app is free from adverts and is a subscription-based package. A limited free trial is available to new subscribers to the application. The application runs many subscriptions-based services ranging from an initial monthly intro to 3 monthly subscriptions ($34.99) to a yearly subscription fee ($99.99). The application is supported by an extensive developers’ website and parents will be pleased to know that it is child-safe including a time limit within the application to avoid too much screen time.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad
This is a game based app that encourages users to compete against themselves to get as high a score as is possible. Technically there is not limit to high a score that a user could get meaning that someone using the app could continually use it and keep improving on their best score. In fact, the write up on the website jokes that this app could potentially destroy your sleep patterns as you try to get the highest score possible! Although at it's route this app is a game there are also a number of other benefits for users within it. The aim of the app is to create as many words, within the time limit given, that all must start with the letter given. Therefore scores can certainly depend on the first letters that are randomly selected by the app. In playing this game myself for a number of hours I certainly found that with some letters I was getting lower scores just because there seemed fewer words that I could think of that began with these letters. In this way the app clever aims to help it's users expand their vocabulary and thinking skills to get the highest possible score they can achieve.
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Zayn and Zayna’s Little Farm is about a family that lives in an English village. The aim of the application is to provide simple activities to reinforce the principal that family life is the foundation of human society and is the seed bed for passing on some key virtues. The application has a great variety of activities ranging from videos to colouring in sheets that can be printed out.
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GoNoodle’s short videos are safe content that provide a change of pace when kids sometimes need them the most. Since most GoNoodle content is only a few minutes in length, it’s easy to watch one or two and then move on to another activity without the dreaded battle that often comes with tearing your child away from something mid-episode. Helpful features make GoNoodle easy for parents to use at home without the guilt that’s often associated with screen time.
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Dr. Panda Town: Collection developed by Dr. Panda is a series of cartoon scenarios around an imaginary town, where you can interact with various different objects and let your imagination and curiosity wander. With the ability to create your own avatar with numerous different attributes, the game is only limited by the imagination of the user.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad
The software application ‘Time Duration’ is an easy to use, child-friendly platform that teaches children the topic of elapsed time. The app includes progressive multiple levels, excellent graphics and in-app support. This application is free from in-app adverts and free from in-app purchases. The application is available on the iOS/Windows platforms and suitable for ages 6 to 9.
Devices: iPhone iPad , Windows
Kiddopia is a collection of games and activities designed to entertain and educate kids. This app is available for iOS and Android devices and is free to download. Kiddopia app helps to develop cognitive development and is suitable for children over the age of one. Kiddopia is a fun app that teaches a variety of skills to young children. It covers everything from shapes, colors, alphabet, spelling, logic and patterns to creativity and self-expression. The games are designed by parents focused on making the learning process fun and intuitive. Kiddopia is free to download for iOS (iPad and iPhone) and Android devices.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad
SumW0rdZ is an interactive educational app for children age 9 and above and improves your general knowledge, word and maths skills all in a single game format. This fun, interactive game has three supporting levels; easy, medium and hard and combines wordplay, mathematical skills such as addition, subtraction, division, multiplication and powers. The basic application is free but additional Word Themes and Dice Combinations can be obtained via in-app purchases. There are also in-app adverts which promote these in-app purchases.
Devices: iPhone iPad
Join the star of the Baby Joy Joy YouTube channel on an arcade-style adventure to learn about numbers and letters. With forgiving gameplay designed for young children, it is good fun and introduces the names of letters and numbers to young learners.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad
Preschool & Kindergarten Games is an interactive educational app for preschool and kindergarten children (ages 4+). The application provides 24 educational games that support all areas of the curriculum including shapes, colours, counting, puzzles, spelling, vowels and consonants and so much more. The application is free from in-app adverts and is available on the iOS platform and Android platforms. The application supports in-app purchases for further content and games. This application is a US format and supports the Common Core State Standards but is also suitable for a UK based curriculum.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad
Splash Math app is a programme used by many schools and parents across the world. Its aim to help children achieve mastery in more than 350 math skills chimes with parents and teachers who want their children to excel in this important subject. Splash Math can also be accessed using its online math practice site.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad
The software ‘Baby Games: Knowledge park’ is an exciting educational learning app suitable for boys and girls aged 1 year and above. The app features four exciting themed zones that focus on Numbers, Colouring, Letters and shapes. Each zone provides a variety of educational, fun and engaging games that are child-friendly and beautifully presented. The application is free from in-app adverts and offers in-app purchases for further levels.
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Coco - Educational Games is one of the best educational games for kids and an easy to use educational games program, featuring multiple brain trainer activities such as children’s puzzle, children’s math games featuring mental math and memory games for children. Suitable for children from 5 to 10 years the application is subscription based on several levels from institutional subscriptions to individual subscriptions over various lengths of time. The application has in-app purchases relating to the content but is free from in-app adverts. The application is available in two languages English and French. The application works without a constant wi-fi connection.
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PBS Kids Games is a collection of over 100 free learning games with popular PBS Kids characters. This mini-game collection will entertain and educate preschoolers for hours on end with some of their favorite animated TV personalities. These free games for kids encourages child to engage in skills related to math, creativity, science and more in gameplay.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad
Pepi Wonder World is an educational app that encourages kids to use their imagination and creativity through its free-play design. Pepi Wonder World puts a toybox of colourful characters, worlds, and objects in your mobile device. Together they form the keys to a world of discovery and imagination for your young child.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad
Pictoword is an exciting game with an addictive premise, where two related picture clues must be connected together to find the right word. For every right puzzle, you can win coins, so in-app purchases can be avoided. The puzzles can be shared on Facebook, so you can seek help from friends if needed. While Pictoword is much more of an entertainment app, it does offer players a chance to test their logic and problem solving skills with each puzzle. There is also a spelling component that provides good practice for players as they must spell each word correctly in order to complete the puzzle.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad
Pocket Family is a whole lot of fun with its engaging and non-violent game play. If you want your children to have a fun diversion that engages their brain and not just their reflexes, this might be just the game you want.
Devices: Android
ABCya has educational games for kids that organizes games by grade level (pre-K through 6+) and subject categories, including letters, numbers, holiday games, and more. ABCya.com is visited by millions of kids, parents, and teachers each month, playing over 1 billion games last year. Versatile is one word to describe the ABCya learning games included in this app. They work across every mainstream device, they cover multiple educational topics, and deliver a broad range of game styles to test and develop children's learning. Excellent would be another word.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad
The application ‘KidloLand Kids Toddler Games’ is an award-winning learning programme for kids (1-7 yrs) and contains 2000+ educational songs, games, stories, nursery rhymes, and activities about Early Learning, Math, Reading, Writing, Coding and more! The application is a subscription-based app comprising of two options; a monthly subscription option or the option to pay for a single year. The application is free from adverts and is certified for children by the KidSAFE program.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad
Kids Cast is like a one-stop shop for a mix of education and entertainment activities that are completely safe and appropriate for children. Videos, games, books, songs and paper-based activities will give your child a great resource to learn from and use to avoid boredom.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad
The application 'Brain Kids' is an entertaining brain training app for children aged 7 and above. The application offers a number of brain training games that can be played by both children and parents. The application has three books where the first chapter of each can be played for free. Further chapters can be purchased within the app. The application is free from in-app adverts and supports three languages English, Chinese and Thai.
Devices: iPhone iPad
The ability to solve problems and think in new ways is as important as the knowledge of how to read or do maths. The developers of MentalUP have devised a series of brain games that expose learners to new types of problems and the different ways of thinking required to solve them.
Devices: Android iPhone iPad