Happy App Friday!
Let your little ones travel through the prehistoric skies with Dinosaur Airport, then gear up for real travel with app picks from Common Sense Media. Plus, the heartwarming story of a woman who creates special dolls for kids in the hospital.
Garry Froehlich
Jellybean Tunes
Dinosaur Airport
by Yateland
Dinosaur Airport is an app for young children that features fanciful airplanes in a world inhabited by dinosaurs. Each plane comes with its own set of activities including loading luggage, refuelling, screening passengers and travelling to its destination. The activities are colourful and simple enough for young hands. Three planes are free, with many more available for a one-time in-app purchase.
Animate Me 3D
by Appy Monkeys
New! Create stop-motion animations using 12 different 3D cartoon characters. Each character can be moved and posed in multiple ways from limbs, to body position to eye-lines. Kids can then add voiceovers, and select lighting and camera angles. Free this Friday.
Apps for Family Travel
It’s the time of year where some families are contemplating what to do for Spring Break. If travel is on the agenda, don’t miss these tips from Common Sense Media about apps to help kids play and learn along the way.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/must-have-apps-for-family-travel
Dolls With Differences are Giving Kids a Boost
‘While young patients at the hospital were often facing amputations, had severe skin burns or had lost their hair to chemotherapy treatments, the dolls she handed to the children always had all their limbs, plus flawless skin and shiny, thick hair. “What about the girl with limb or hand differences or the boy with a large birthmark on his face?” Jandrisevits asked. “It was always in the back of my mind that they deserved to have a doll that looked like them.”’
Great story.
