IPad are one of the favourite electronic devices for most children including toddlers. Because they are intuitive with captivating animation that gives them an effortless-swipe gaming experience and keep the wiggling worms placid even for longer periods of time. According to American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP), unlimited exposure to screen time isn’t beneficial at all and must not exceed 1-2 hours/day. In addition every child must be able to spend sufficient amount of time in outdoor activities and unstructured play. So it is very important to filter and select the best ipad apps for toddlers.
Eight Best iPad Apps for Toddlers
Using the best iPad apps for toddlers discussed in the following, it can enable your kid to learn keenly with a vivid imagination. From solving puzzles to learning ABCs, listed below are the top available apps on the iTunes made just for the apple of your eye.
1. Toddler Counting
Price: $0.99
Overview: It’s a simple counting app where you can count the cows using the finger. The program counts along, followed by an applause when you are finished counting.Strawberries are next waiting to be counted. The applause serves as positive reinforcement and makes the toddler feeling confident and happy each time.
Features:
- Supported by iPad, iPhone and iPod
- Captivating real life objects stills
- Entirely alterable game settings
- Available in multi-languages: Italian, Chinese Mandarin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch, Korean, Russian, Danish, Swedish, German, Japanese, Spanish, French and English
- A coherent voice-guide from native speakers
- Multi-categories for counting: outdoor objects, ocean creatures, food, insects, toys, musical instruments, household objects, shapes, transport and animals
- Greater than 130 objects available for counting
- Toddler-friendly interface with easily accessible menus
2. Bridge Constructor Free
Price: Free (the free version covers 8 levels of full version)
Overview: The bridge constructor free version is not so intricate and suitable for toddlers along with dad’s help. In such a game, toddlers can choose among the materials including steel, cables, wood, or concrete pillars that are needed for bridge construction. So many choices of materials lead to lots of bridge constructions. With the limited budget, you just need to choose the materials and make the right collocation. It would be a good time for family bonding and toddler daily education.
Features:
- 40 levels available
- Help system and free building mode
- 5 locations: hills, mountains, beach, canyon and city
- Enhanced grid system
- Map having unlocked levels/ worlds
- 4 building materials, indicated by different color code: concrete pillars, cables, steel and wood
- 3 different loading vehicles: tank truck, truck and car
- Each level with its own display of high score
- Connect with Facebook
3. Drawing Together
Price: $1.99
Overview: This app allows the parents and the toddlers to have a mutual interaction via Bluetooth or internet employing art as the common background. This interaction enables parents and kids at both ends to view similar page at the same time with added feature of chat. This app includes games like Noughts and Crosses and Hangman and has a collection of crayons and pens along with loads of colouring-in templates.
Features:
- Mutual viewing of similar drawing by both users at similar moment
- Free audio call
- Easy PIN connection
- More than 30 coloring pages
- Paper games
- Option for sharing and saving to the device
- Equipped with multiple brushes
- Cute stickers
4. Chalk Pad
Price: Free
Overview: This app enables the child to chalk things up using a range of different colours, variant chalk sizes and gives him an opportunity to use on-screen keyboard for writing on the chalk pad.
Features:
- Spray paint modes
- Tool for typing text
- Undo option
- Air print, share, save
- 3 backgrounds even the Dry Erase Board
- Easily changeable line thickness
- A color wheel for a wide range of chalk colors
- 3 fingers use for simulating nails on the chalkboard sound FX
- Use 3 Fingers to Simulate Nails on Chalkboard Sound FX
5. Baby’s Musical Hands
Price: $0.99
Overview: This beautiful app enables the toddlers to produce musical sounds and intensely hued starbursts upon touching the screen. The iPad version of this app contains 15 squares which exhibit different musical sounds of percussion, guitar and piano. But the iPhone and iPod version contains 10 instruments with only guitar and piano.
Features: This app is quite easy to play and can help your toddler have a pre-understanding of music along with the fun of making sounds.
6. Squiggle
Price: Free
Overview: Even when this app targets the pre-schoolers and toddlers, it still holds a significant popularity level among older kids as well. This app sets the ‘squiggles’ drawn by the child, to motion. Cherry on top, it is a free app!
Features:
- Shake the screen for playing tremolo
- Cut mode: it enables the removal of line through cutting
- Play mode: it enables music play through the lines
- Draw mode: it enables drawing of straight lines
7. Spot Goes to School
Price: $2.99
Overview: This app is really adored by toddlers. Rather than lifting of flaps, the app shows a hidden image below by simply touching the screen. Toddlers may sharpen their skills to tidy up at the Nature’s Table by shaking the screen first in order to make it all messy.
8. Talking Gina the Giraffe
Price: $2.99
Overview: This is a fun app that allows the toddlers to talk to their digital pet, Gina the giraffe. Gina repeats what she hears and toddlers love to hear Gina repeat their own words to them. Frequent interaction with Gina will make your toddler happier. For instance, if she’s 70% happy, she mimics the words in a funny tone and grants the toddler a balloon. When 90% happy, Gina blows kisses.
Several free drinks and snacks are available to feed Gina, however other snacks need be bought as well. The best part is the toddler may improve his hand-eye co-ordination by playing a patty-cake hand clapping game with his much adored pet giraffe. The app contains 32 levels, each level at 3 speeds.
More interesting games and illustrations are shared in the following video: