The Jellybean Tunes App Report Volume 24

From dinosaurs to dental care, constellations to computer programming, the 24th app report is packed with news and product announcements from the members of the Moms With Apps network. As always, we break the apps down by topic and app store category to help you find apps that may interest you.

Apps for Little Ones: Learn letters, numbers and more with Preschool and Kindergarten Learning Games. Learn about animals and their diets with Feed the Animals.

Books: Join in on an Easter Island adventure.

Dinosaurs: Join the search for dinosaurs in Find them all: dinosaurs world.

Programming: The turtle is back for the iPhone generation, teaching the basics of computer programming in the Logo language (New and Noteworthy in Education).

Games: Help the Brave Hedgehogs gather fruit in a multiplayer boardgame. QI IQ sharpens your grasp of two letter words to improve your scores in certain letter-tile games.

Math: Math Guardians – battle with the power of math!

Health: Learn all about oral hygiene with Kids’ Dental Health.

Creative Play: Paint-On-3D Easter Eggs offers an easy way to decorate virtual eggs. Play around with musical animated constellations in Stella and the Startones. Mix and match to create cartoon faces with FaceIt.

Parents, please take a moment to read the iTunes app descriptions, and to screen the apps you download, to fully understand the features and elements in the app. If you find an app you like, remember to write a review.

– Garry Froehlich | Jellybean Tunes

Books

Motlies Easter Island Adventure by JustKidsApps – Katrin Draemann Barothy: In this cute and colourful story, Albert’s curiosity about the Easter Bunny leads him to discover that there is a place called Easter Island where (in the app but sadly not in real life) huge statutes can fall over, grow and even turn into rabbits! Using the Motley’s magic, the boy and a hedgehog travel to the South American island and meet a secret group of rabbits who create all the eggs for Easter and deliver them to the world’s children. iPad

Education

	Find them all: dinosaurs world by Knbmedia: Lots of activities to learn about 24 dinosaurs. Search for dinosaurs in their habitat and win animated cards. Take photos and listen to information about your favourite animals. Find all the dinosaurs before nightfall…or use a torch to find them in the dark. Make jigsaws from your photos (4, 6, 12, 24, 42 pieces). Play a photo quiz and try to win new snaps for your album. (Watch Video) iPhone and iPad
	Move the Turtle. Programming for kids by Next is Great: Move The Turtle is an educational application for iPhone and iPad that teaches children the basics of creating computer programs, using intuitive graphic commands. Do you remember the Logo programming language? A friendly Turtle will introduce your child step by step to the basic concepts of programming in a colourful graphic environment. Who knows, maybe your child will be the next outstanding programmer! iPhone and iPad
	Preschool and Kindergarten Learning Games by Kevin Bradford: Educational games that will keep your preschool and kindergarten age kids entertained while they are learning! Helpful voice narrating, colorful graphics, and great sound effects will help your kids learn letters, spelling, math, and more! Includes 2 free games, unlock all 9 games through a simple in-app purchase. iPhone and iPad, Google Play, Amazon, Nook
	QI IQ – learn two letter words for word games with friends by Thinkamingo: QI IQ is your ultimate two-letter word quizzer for popular word games. In just a few minutes daily, you can improve your compound scoring ability by increasing your two-letter word vocabulary. What is compound scoring? Compound scoring is when you form more than one new word in a turn, thereby earning points for two or more words. Win your next game using this hidden jackpot and key to scoring big! iPhone and iPad
	Math Guardians by Jiayi Chong: BATTLE WITH THE POWER OF MATH! Real-time fighting and arithmetic merge to present Math Guardians, an arcade-style math fighting game! Set in a world where the native creatures defend their planet from an invading mechanical alien force, the game features 2D fighting in glorious HD with simple directional taps and uses in-game arithmetic to charge up attacks. (Watch Video) iPad
	Paint-On-3D Easter Eggs by Operatio: Paint-On-3D Easter Eggs is a fun & creative app for the whole family to paint, color and dress up 3D eggs with high quality paint effects that will really boost your creativity! Tailor made for the nomad brush painting on the eggs feels amazingly real and natural (also with finger painting). When you have created a hand painted egg masterpiece, you can share it in an automatically generated Easter Card to your friends and family. iPad
	Kids’ Dental Health by Alexandr Stacanov: This educational interactive book helps parents teach their children in a fun and entertaining way all about the essentials of oral hygiene. Children will happily get to know more about dental care whilst having fun playing in thematic mini-games. The story is short enough to read right before oral hygiene activities and long enough to play games during the day to generate motivation to have a shining healthy smile. (Watch Video) iPad

Entertainment

Games

	Brave Hedgehogs by FounDreams: A cheerful board game for children aged 4 or older and their parents. Brave hedgehogs are ready to depart on a perilous trip. They are about to cross a bog haunted by ghosts. Sinking islands and other terrible dangers await! Your task is to help your hedgehog reach the opposite shore, gather all the fruit and safely return. (Watch Video) iPhone and iPad
	Stella and the Startones by Bohem Interactive: Bring the joy of discovery and creative play back into your day with the musical star friends of STELLA. Inspired by early-learning activities of non-competitive, open-ended play, STELLA AND THE STARTONES is a collection of 21 characters drawn from the stars of the northern hemisphere. These whimsically animated constellations groove to the original music scores and respond to the actions of the player. You can toot your horn with the big band, bang your steel drum to island music, or strum the steel guitar to the blues. iPad
	Feed The Animals – Kids Educational App by Curious Fingers: Wouldn’t it be fun to feed a banana to a monkey or an acorn to a squirrel? Did you know that a hippopotamus is a herbivore animal? Think carefully to select an animal’s favorite food and feed it to the animal and make them happy!! They will merrily chomp away the food making a clatter of funny sounds and cute faces! You will even be awarded stickers for correctly feeding them. iPhone and iPad
	FaceIt by Sleepy Cactus: Kids love making up faces, and FaceIt makes it fast and fun! Great for ages 3 – 7! (But older siblings will have fun, too!) Mix and match face parts with an intuitive tap and slide interface. Make any face you can imagine! Add glasses, hats, beards and bodies for a complete character. Over *100 billion* combinations means lots of replay value; kids will never run out of new faces. iPhone

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