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In our modern culture, oftentimes iPhones, tablets, and computers are a major part of parents' and even children's lives. Screen time can get a bad rap pretty easily, but the good news is that you don't always have to worry about screen time once your kids reach an age where they can interact and learn. Learning apps for preschoolers are a great way to utilize screen time and make sure that there's an educational aspect to it, too. Choosing the right apps, however, is an important part of educational screen time.
Learning with apps and using logic, creativeness, and educational prompts to further learning in areas like spelling, math, counting, shapes, cognitive abilities, and more, is becoming fairly common. It can be overwhelming, however, to know where to start. Finding the right apps or making sure the apps you're downloading are offering educational aspects are important to a lot of parents. Especially when it comes to offering their kids a tablet or computer to use, parents want to make sure the apps they're playing on are truly helpful.
Luckily, if you're wanting to find some educational yet fun apps, or even if you're looking for some new ones to try out, you can check out the list below and get to downloading.
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The Everything Machine
The Everything Machine is a great app for kids to start learning about programming through a sandbox space that lets them play around with different tools. By placing tools and components together, they can begin to see effects and learn how building can create something new. Kids preschool age and up can have a great time learning with this app.
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ABC Letter Tracing
The ABC Letter Tracing app offers free writing practice for preschoolers' learning letter recognition and writing. Kids are able to trace uppercase and lowercase letters with their finger and get the hang of spelling and using letters.
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ABCmouse.com - Early Learning Academy
Cited as one of the top apps for kids ages 2 through 8 on iTunes, ABCmouse.com helps kids with early literacy and math skills.
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LEGO® Juniors Create & Cruise
The LEGO Juniors Create & Cruise allows kids to focus on building, creativity, and using their imagination. The app creates a platform for kids to build using LEGOs, and it helps them come up with fun ways to explore new creations.
5
First Words Sampler
Offering a fun way for kids to piece words and letters together, First Words Sampler is perfect for preschool-aged kids. There are fun animals and objects, like ducks, trains, and planes, that help kids work on spelling and association.
6
Preschool Arcade
ABC Invasion, Pinball 123, Whack-a-Mole, and Claw-Crane Matching are all fun games included within the Preschool Arcade app. It's an app that allows your children to truly feel like they're playing a game while working on cognitive development, counting, letters, and more.
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Green Eggs And Ham Read & Learn
Dr. Seuss was one of my favorites growing up and is always a favorite of my children, which is why Green Eggs and Ham Read & Learn is a great app, especially for parents who know and love the book.
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Daniel Tiger's Day & Night
Daniel Tiger offers a lot of positive messages for kids to learn and implement into daily life. Daniel Tiger's Day & Night is an award-winning app that helps kids understand and work through morning and evening routines, perfect for school preparation.
9
Shape Builder
For the puzzle solving children out there, Shape Builder assists preschool-aged kids in learning shapes, piecing together objects correctly, and improving fine motor skills.
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TeachMe: Kindergarten
TeachMe: Kindergarten is an award-winning app that's great to help your preschoolers get a little ahead of the game. The educational subjects covered include addition, subtraction, spelling, Dolch sight words, and letter and number writing.
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CodeSpark Academy With The Foos
CodeSpark Academy with the Foos is a wonderful learn to code app that teaches preschool-aged kids the basics of programming with fun characters to play along with. The app offers different activities based on progress, and comes out with new monthly content for kids as well.
