Smart Apps For Kids

Grab This New Freebie From Toca Boca- Toca Kitchen is Free!!

Kids always want to play and "help" in the kitchen. Few things are more fun, creative, and skill-building like kitchen play and cooking. Children can also do it in the virtual world. With Toca Kitchen, your child is responsible for cooking for their choice of four colorful characters, including a blue horse, a cat, a boy, and a girl. What foods will the horse like the best? Will the boy eat a steak smoothie? You have to play to find out. It won't be free for long though, so you would be smart download it today.   

Featured App: LaLa Lunchbox -Fun lunch planning for parents and kids.

Have you seen all of those gorgeous lunch box pictures? Compared to the peanut butter sandwiches I squish together in the mornings, they look like five star dining. Now there is help for parents like me in the form of LaLa Lunchbox. In this colorful and easy to use app, kids get to scroll through pictures of food and add items to their lunch boxes for every day of the week. After kids make their choices, parents have a grocery list and can feel confident that lunch won't get tossed or traded.

 

Review: Eric & Bruce BBQ Party is open-ended playtime cooking for guests.

 

 

Bottom Line: Eric and his puppy, Bruce are doing some creative meal planning and cooking for their BBQ and children help with everything from choosing the food, cooking it and serving the wild concoctions to guests who may not approve of the choices. We've seen this kind of app from other developers, but Eric & Bruce Technology does a good job carving a space for itself in the genre.

Jobi's Bistro cooks up divine treats for tots

Jobi's Bistro, by Yellephant Co., has all the fun of cooking and baking without the mess. In addition to sweet little Jobi characters that you might want to carry around in your pocket, these little workers also introduce toddlers to subtraction, fractions and hone memory skills by utilizing kitchen and cashier skills. Need more than that? How about cupcakes? Jobi's Bistro has them too!

Dr. Panda's milkshake brings all the kids to the yard! Check out new Top Pick Dr. Panda's Ice Cream Truck!

 

 

Bottom Line: Just released today!! Dr. Panda has ventured into the business of making unique and over-the-top ice cream treats in his latest app, Dr. Panda's Ice Cream Truck. Full of the easy-to-use and imaginative elements that set Dr. Panda apps apart from others, Dr. Panda's Ice Cream Truck is a new top pick for preschoolers (though my 9 year old is in love with it as well).