All Children's Educational Apps
View ALL the educational ipad apps we recommend from over 1,500 we've evaluated.
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All Children's Games Apps
View ALL the iPad GAMES apps we recommend from over 5,000 we've evaluated.
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All Children's Creativity Apps
View ALL the creativity iPad apps we recommend from over 1,500 apps we've evaluated.
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All Special Needs Apps
iPad Family has reviewed quite a few Education Apps for children, and many of them are useful in certain Special Needs environments.
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Arcade Games
The style of arcade gaming is still alive and well, and many of the all-time great Arcade Games are available on your iPad or iPad mini. These are Recommended iPad Arcade Games.
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Battle Games
Battle Games are good for building strategic and quick thinking. In moderation they're good for the brain.
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Board Games
The Board Games now available on iPad or iPad Mini are high-quality yet retain the feel of the original cardboard physical game!
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Book Apps
Reading to and reading with our children is an important area of cognitive development which can be overlooked in all the fuss of homework and schoolwork.
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Character Games
The most obvious feature of these games is characters with personalities. The game features characters from TV shows or movies...
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Craft & Construction Apps
Crafts are an important part of every day at homeschool. iPad enhances creative and visual development.
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Drawing & Art Apps
Art enhances cross brain development. The ability to visualise ideas and translate that on to paper is an invaluable skill we all have.
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Entertainment Kids Apps
Entertain yourself or be entertained? These apps can help you BE entertained or join in the fun and MAKE entertainment!
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Geography Apps
You gotta know where you are in the world. These apps are not Geography lessons, but more geography knowledge & exploration.
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Literacy & Language Apps
Growing your vocabulary and reading skills does not end once you're able to spell and write sentences...
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Matching Games
Matching Games for iPad and iPad mini are highly educational. It's always great to work on your memory, and with iPad it's REALLY FUN!
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Mathematics Apps
Children's Numeracy Apps for iPad & iPad Mini changes Math's education, for good! More engaging than a class full of classmates...
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Multiplayer Games
Multiplayer iPad Games Apps are fun! Playing together with someone makes games quite challenging, and fun!
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Music Apps
Children's Music Apps for iPad & iPad Mini are very important to a developing child. Sure, listening to music is great, but INTERACTING...
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Note Taking Apps
Thanks to iPad, Note Taking is now a delight. Paper free notes that can be searched. Notes based on time...
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Photography Apps
Having a multi function device has made many single function devices obsolete and has now taken over the role of 'camera' in our family.
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Physics Games
Instead of real-world physics it's virtual-world physics. The most popular physics-based game is Angry Birds where you fling birds...
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Platform Games
Platform Games is as 'a video game genre characterised by jumping to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles' in a variety of ways.
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Puzzle Apps
Let's face it, you've got to use your brain to put puzzles together. On iPad, puzzles are multi-dimensional workout!
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Puzzle Games
Puzzle Games on iPad take the term 'puzzle' into a completely new realm. Yes, there are traditional puzzles & true mind-workouts!
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PVP (Player Versus Player) Games
iPad vs iPad, Multiplayer (PVP) Multi-iPad Games are cool. These are games you can play with 2 iPads or iPad minis
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Reference Apps
Children's Reference Apps for iPad & iPad Mini are SO HELPFUL when teaching small children, they want to know NOW. iPad makes it possible to answer them...
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Role Playing Games (RPG)
Role-playing games are games in which players assume the identity (ROLES) of characters within the game setting.
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Science Apps
Give your child a head start! Learn physics, biology, earth science, topography, cause-and-effect, even chemistry via iPad!
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Simulation Games
Build and manage a city, farm, shop or kingdom. Learn the intricacies of organisation and delegation, find out what REALLY goes on
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Space Games
Space Games are not really a genre but more of an aspect of where the game is SET. We made this up because we can - we like space!
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Speech Pathology Apps
iPad Family has reviewed quite a few Education Apps for children, and many of them are useful for learning to Speak or for children participating in casual or structured Speech therapy.
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Sticker Book Apps
These are craft-type of iPad Apps which simulates sticking stuff onto paper - what you would probably already associate with sticker-arts and crafts.
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Strategy Games
Strategy games are good for the brain. Grampa says so, and I agree. Keeping your mind sharp and those synapses firing!
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Tower Defence Games
Stop your adversaries from crossing from one side of your screen to the other. Use the power of your towers to engage and stop the advance.
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Video and Animation Apps
Who would've thought that making a movie, video, animation, or time lapse movie would be so easy!
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