CREATIVE CHOICE OF THE BEST APPS FOR KIDS
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Art My Kid Made app logo
ART MY KID MADE iPhone – Free. If you've run out of room on your fridge for your children's drawings and paintings, this app helps you capture and store photos of the real-world artworks, while sharing them with family and friends on social networks.
Color & Draw for Kids app logo
COLOR & DRAW FOR KIDS iPhone/Android – £0.69. This is part-drawing app and part-digital colouring book, as the name implies. It's based around themed packs of pictures, with some preloaded, and others – dinosaurs, animals, fairies, etc – available for purchase in-app.
Disney Pixel'd app logo
DISNEY PIXEL'D iPhone/iPad – Free. This will appeal to creative parents as much as to children, as it involves taking some of Disney's most famous characters and creating your own pixel-art drawings and animations, which can then be shared online.
Doodlecast for Kids app logo
DOODLECAST FOR KIDS iPhone/iPad – £1.49. A drawing app with a twist for children – they can also record their voice as they draw. The results can then be turned into a video of up to three minutes in length, to be sent to friends and family.
Dr Seuss's The Cat in the Hat Color & Create! app logo
DR SEUSS'S THE CAT IN THE HAT COLOR & CREATE!iPad – £1.49. Although based on a US TV show, this app is plenty of fun for British children too. It gets them colouring in scenes and characters from the iconic Dr Seuss books, with digital stickers and a virtual glitter cannon thrown in.
Little Fox Music Box app logo
LITTLE FOX MUSIC BOX iPhone/iPad – £1.99. Described as a "sing-along songbook", this gets your children tapping and, yes, singing along to songs including London Bridge and Old MacDonald, with animations, interactivity and a bucketful of charm.
Maily app logo
MAILY iPad – Free. Maily wants to be "your kids' first email" – a way for them to create digital drawings and messages, then send them to the inboxes of parents, other family and friends. Good parental tools ensure it's a safe introduction to messaging.
Morton Subotnick's Pitch Painter app logo
MORTON SUBOTNICK'S PITCH PAINTER iPad – £1.99. Imagine if making music was like finger-painting. That's the idea behind this fun app for three- to five-year-olds, which uses instrument samples from around the world to paint tunes onto a digital canvas.
PlayART by Tapook app logo
PLAYART BY TAPOOK iPad – £2.49. Parents with a leaning towards art will love this iPad app, which encourages children to create and share their own pictures using elements from famous paintings by Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Rousseau and Klee.
Miko and Cola app logo
MIKO AND COLA iPad – £1.99. This starts as a storybook app following the "silly fun adventures" of a pair of cats called Miko and Cola. The real joy comes in its music mode, where your child can tap on characters and items to make music.
Magic Piano app logo
MAGIC PIANO iPhone/iPad/Android – Free. Magic Piano isn't just for kids, but children do gravitate towards it. The app is a virtual piano that warps into magical shapes. As kids get older, it will teach them to play an array of songs too, from pop hits to classics.
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