Happy App Friday!
This week, kids can explore and encourage their creativity with Look, I’m making it up! from The Melody Book, then try their hand at coding in augmented reality with Little Red Coding Club.
Look, I’m making it up!
by The Melody Book
“Look, I’m making it up!” is a book and activity app about creativity and thinking outside the box. Camilo expresses his creativity through music, baking, getting dressed, and more. The app supports the story with a digital piano, cookie decorating activity, and paper doll activity where kids using the app are encouraged to express their own creativity. There is a part where Camilo jumps down a set of stairs strewn with toys that I feel doesn’t set a good example. Other than that, the graphics, animation and narration are all of very high quality and stands with the best among kids apps on the app store.
Little Red Coding Club
by Twinkl Limited
Little Red Coding Club presents a basic coding activity with a twist. Kids perform the now classic activity of moving a character along a path with different commands, but in augmented reality and with up to two people playing together on two different devices. Viewing the map in AR is fun, and coordinating with another player presents a new spin on simple coding, although it can get unwieldy on larger devices, and the number of coding commands is limited. Kids can also create their own maps (in AR) to play, which extends the life of the app considerably.
