The Jellybean Tunes App Report: Volume 6

As I look through all of the new family-friendly apps for this sixth installment of the App Report, I’m once again impressed by the diversity of releases.

The preschool set can read about Mother Goose or Peek-A-Zoo.  They can play with animated words, steer a butterfly or learn about vehicles.  Slightly older kids can go on a coastal quest, explore space with the Cat in the Hat, practice math skills, or create picture books.

Even older kids can delve back to 560 BC and explore the intricacies of the Magic Square. Families can keep in touch with caregivers with HeartStrings Mobile, or interact directly with each other over a Photo Table.

Finally, your very own Jellybean Tunes is excited to bring you a little musical magic with Christmas Piano, just in time for the holiday season.

Click on the links to find out more about each app.  If you find an app you like, remember to write a review on iTunes.

– Garry Froehlich | Jellybean Tunes

Books

	Mother Goose on the Loose by G S Phinest: “Mother Goose on the Loose” is an interactive rhyming story and activity book for children. Read it yourself or let the narrator read to you. Play exciting and educational games based on the story: spelling, missing letters, memory matching, and more. iPad
	Peek-a-Zoo by Duck Duck Moose: Play Peek-a-Zoo where animals are dancing, eating, wagging their tails, wearing sunglasses, sleeping, and much much more! Designed for toddlers, Peek-a-Zoo encourages children to learn the names of animals and identify different details, such as actions, emotions, positions, and attire. iPhone
	Coastal Quest by Hamson Design Group Pty Ltd: A trip to the beach becomes an important adventure. Can you find the clues to help a sea creature in trouble? Explore the different locations at the beach, such as the pier, the caves, the rockpools and the coral reef, and choose the direction the story takes (like the “Choose Your Own Adventure” format), as YOU try to help a sea creature in distress… iPhone and iPad

Education

	Math Plus Minus by pkclSoft: Math Plus Minus allows your kids to practice basic addition and subtraction by asking simple questions, and providing multiple choice answers. You have complete control over how many questions make up a game, and how large the numbers are that comprise the questions. iPhone and iPad
	Noodle Words by NoodleWorks: Dance! Noodle Bugs Dance! The first in a series of animated Word Toys, Noodle Words encourages kids to discover word meanings like they never have before. Through interactive play, our words come to life as the Noodle Bugs demonstrate word meanings with their highly animated antics. iPad
	There’s No Place Like Space! by Oceanhouse Media: There’s No Place Like Space! kicks off an exciting new series of animated omBooks from The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library. Children can follow along as the Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick on a trip though the solar system, visiting each planet and learning fun facts along the way. iPhone and iPad
	Bugs and Buttons by Little Bit Studio, LLC.: It’s fun. It’s unique. Its educational. It has bugs! The kind of bugs that look real and scurry around. Where else can you pick up a tarantula or steer a butterfly? The app goes beyond simply great graphics and beautiful music by engaging children through intriguing game play that progressively adapts to their skill level. iPhone and iPad
	HeartStrings Mobile by Appitudez, Inc.: HeartStrings Mobile streamlines the daily activities of early educators and care providers, while also enhancing the important parent-provider relationship. It consists of two apps (one for the Facility and one for the Parents). Facility Version (iPhone) Parent Version (iPhone)
	Picturebook: School Edition by Maplekey Company, LLC: Picturebook features cute illustrations and intuitive controls for authors of all ages. Authors have an open canvas for their imagination and parents can create and then read stories to their children. Picturebook users can also collaborate on their stories by passing them back and forth. Over 200 included illustration to use in your stories! iPhone and iPad

Games

Squared Away! by Binary Bake Sale LLC: In 560 BC, Chinese mathematicians discovered the Magic Square, a matrix of numbers that produces identical sums in every direction. Since that time, Magic Squares of all varieties have been discovered all over the world. In “Squared Away!” there are over 900 Magic Square solutions for you to discover. Simply rearrange the tiles numbered 1 through 16 so that the rows, columns and diagonals all add up to 34. Sound easy? We’ll let you be the judge of that-there are over 20 trillion possible combinations! iPhone

My First App Vehicles by appp media: Three great games are featuring lots of vehicles (police car, truck, horse carriage, loader… ) in awesome pictures. No language skills are required. Navigate the app by selecting symbols – even preschool children can play without help. This app features three games: a puzzle, a turning game and a handheld pinball. iPhone

Music

Christmas Kid’s Piano by Jellybean Tunes: Play popular Christmas carols in three different themes using nine different instruments, listen to the beautiful background tracks, find the hidden sounds, then put it all together to create your own magical holiday music. Our themed piano incorporates songs, background music choices, instruments, sounds and images designed to work together to make it easy for kids to create their own music that evokes the holiday season. iPhone and iPad

Photo and Video

Photo Table by Paul Solt: Play with your photos on a virtual tabletop. Tap, zoom, flick, rotate, and drag images around the table and share your experiences with family and friends. Photo Table is a multi-touch interactive slideshow that uses all ten fingers. iPhone and iPad

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