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Five different games to support understanding skills, such as building kites, helping an umbrella get home etc. There is an open ended element for children to c... Read More >
A simple app which reinforces the sounds of single letters. As children draw and design their letter, the phonemic sound is repeated over and over again. Once c... Read More >
You can buy a connected wooden alphabet that can play with the app (only for iPad, expensive at £49.99). Apps come free with the purchase of the wooden alphabet... Read More >
In this wordless book app, children can release animals from captivity, moving them back to their original habitat. The app is simple and very similar to the bo... Read More >
This sequel to The Monster at the End of This Book continues the spirit of its precursor with a delightful story and similar features that will keep children en... Read More >
Children are given four different characters and a range of situations/objects to choose from. They have to feed or give the animal different objects and judge ... Read More >
This is a beautifully fun app, illustrated by the same illustrator as the Gruffalo. This app allows children to play around with mixing different animal words t... Read More >
This is a beautifully fun app, illustrated by the same illustrator as the Gruffalo. This app allows children to play around with mixing different animal words t... Read More >
This is a fun version of the Flip Flap book, enabling the reader to read poems about pets that exist, like cats or rabbits, or creatively combine them, making u... Read More >
This is a beautifully fun app, illustrated by the same illustrator as the Gruffalo. This app allows children to play around with mixing different animal words t... Read More >
An app with many different story options for children to choose from. Children can decide which character they want the story to focus on, what they want the st... Read More >
An interactive storybook which allows you to input your child's/parent's photo on to the main characters. The child can then choose what they wear, as well as w... Read More >
This is a highly interactive story app where children can follow Bizzy Bear to make a house. Every interaction is written out on the screen, with words highligh... Read More >
An alphabet game with a musical twist, every alphabet letter is part of a song. The more letters children touch the longer the song. Letters are sung out above ... Read More >
A children's drawing app with a twist. Each choice of tool or colour, swipe of the screen and different drawing produces wonderfully produced musical sounds, a... Read More >
CBeebies Playtime Island contains a vast variety of fun, educational games featuring familiar and popular CBeebies characters, helping children understand the w... Read More >
A wide range of free story books based on CBeebies characters. Available for parents to download, with new updates made regularly available. Read to me/read to ... Read More >
This app is a traditional Cinderella story with the options to "read and play" along with the app, "read by myself", in which you can also interact, but the nar... Read More >
This app allows you to see other people's drawings from all over the world and give them a 'heart' if you like them. This supports children to begin to understa... Read More >
Coral Reef, produced by Tinybop, introduces children to the wonders of a coral reef. Children can choose an underwater creature from a menu and then can drag th... Read More >
A beautifully illustrated app with many different layers for children to explore with adults and friends. There are so many prompts to support developing childr... Read More >
Although mostly aimed at primary school children and older, DiaryZapp is an opportunity to create with young children records of their everyday life and promote... Read More >
A great opportunity to build vocabulary and add words in relation to space. There are lots of different games for children to try out, as well as other themes, ... Read More >
In this app children can draw, type, record audio messages, insert photographs either on a blank background or on a template. This is great for making marks and... Read More >
This app allows children to create toys from recycling materials, which they can choose to decorate and create. This is a great opportunity to link virtual and ... Read More >
This app is a great and effective way of teaching a wide variety of words by exploring different professions and daily routines through imaginative play. This i... Read More >
This interactive story app gives you three different options; read to me, read by myself and read and play. The story helps children to build an awareness of di... Read More >
This app definitely will work best when sharing with others and adults, with good opportunities available for children to work together to create their own desi... Read More >
In this app children get to explore all different aspects of farm life, from collecting eggs, to milking cows and cleaning and feeding pigs. There is a great op... Read More >
This is a fun version of the Flip Flap book, enabling the reader to read poems about dogs that exist like Bulldog or Dalmatian, or creatively combine them, maki... Read More >
