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Despicable Me gets a Minion Mashup app for iPhone
Despicable Me is one of the animated movies creating a buzz among parents this year. Now it’s got a new iPhone app to spread the word further. It’s called Despicable Me: Minion Mashup, and is described...
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Draw and Tell by Duck Duck Moose shows off your kids’ creativity
Men over a certain age are unable to resist providing their own commentary when playing football down the park (“And Rooney takes it down the wing…”). For kids, the same thing is often true of drawing...
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Me to You: Colour and Sticker Fun gets arty with Tatty Teddy
Colouring and sticking go hand-in-hand for many children: first they scribble on the white table-top with crayons, then they cover it in glue and random tat. Or is that just ours? Me to You: Colour and...
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Make A Scene stickers app goes under the sea
The rationale behind digital-stickers apps is simple: if your child plays with one for half an hour, the results aren’t plastered over your walls / cat / face. A result, by any yardstick. We like the...
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Dr. Seuss’ Cat in the Hat gets a new colouring app for iPad
Pretty much the entire library of Dr. Seuss books is now available in app form, thanks to US publisher Oceanhouse Media. Now there’s something new: a creative colouring app from Random House based on...
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Caillou Stickers app gets creative on iPhone and iPad
It’s a good day for children who love digital stickers, what with the Dr. Seuss Color & Create app, and now Caillou Stickers. It’s based on Canadian children’s TV series Caillou, which previously...
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Monsters vs Superheroes Comic Book Maker hits iPhone and iPad
Monsters and superheroes. Fun apart, but even better together. Something kid-apps developer Duck Duck Moose clearly knows, judging by its new app Monsters vs Superheroes Comic Book Maker. The app wants...
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Scribbly Squiggles! app moves from iPad to iPhone
We were really impressed by iPad drawing app Squiggles! when we covered it in May, but now it’s being squeezed down onto iPhone and iPod touch too. As on Apple’s tablet, the app involves creating...
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Make A Scene apps get Polar and Jungly on iPad
There’s a burgeoning genre of ‘sticker’ apps for iPad, offering children a way to make scenes with characters, and offering parents a chance to NOT have to scrape sticker-goo off the...
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Lego Minifigure Ultimate Stickers (iPad app review)
We’re relatively new to Lego’s Minifigures range of characters, as they tend to be just out of eyesight when our three year-old is excitedly furtling through the toy-car shelf at Sainsbury’s for his...
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Usborne Sticker Dolly Princesses dress up on iPad
Here’s one in the eye for the idea that boys like certain toys or forms of play, and girls others. Our three year-old son will happily throw on a big princess dress, given half the chance, and lie on...
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Superman and Batman get Stickers with Sounds apps
Two problems with stickers in the real world: 1. They get slapped all over the sofa, walls, cat etc by your children. 2. They don’t make sounds, except when you’re peeling them off the angry cat. And...
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Creativium is an ‘interactive paper theater’ for kids on iPad
The latest in a healthy line of create-your-own-story children’s apps is Creativium – Paper Theater, which was released for iPad this week. The idea: “Create your own fairy tale in a magical forest....
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Get your kids creating with Easy Studio shape-animating iPad app
Kids love making collages, but what if they could make them digitally, and make them move? That’s the idea behind Easy Studio – Animate with Shapes. It’s an iPad app released by developer Les Trois...
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Lego Friends get an Ultimate Stickers iPad app
Lego Friends is Lego’s range of minifigure characters aimed more at girls. Now there’s an iPad app for them: Lego Friends Ultimate Stickers. Released over the weekend by book publisher DK, it’s a...
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar gets a new Stickerbook app
We grew up with Eric Carle’s Very Hungry Caterpillar, and our children are just as entranced by the little fella’s appetite. Now there’s a new app for him and his creepy-crawly mates. The Very Hungry...
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Your kids may be stuck to Lazoo’s Magic Stickers! app
“Is it a piece of broccoli… or a tree? A bread roll… or a bus? Snow cones…or ice bergs?” asks the App Store listing for the Magic Stickers! app. Which makes us wonder what dinnertime is like round...
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Zoinks! Scooby-Doo gets a Stickers with Sounds iPad app
There are a growing number of digital-stickering apps on iPad, which try to capture the fun of sticker-scene books in the real world, with none of the mess (or tears over stickers that have lost their...
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Dollies out, pirates in for new Usborne Sticker Dressing app
We wrote about the Usborne Sticker Dolly Princesses app in November last year: an iPad-only app from book publisher Usborne Publishing that let children dress up and create scenes with digital dolly...
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Monster High gets a brand new iPad magazine app in Europe
As parents of two boys aged four and six, we’re understandably not that familiar with the world of Monster High (key fanbase: 7-12 year-old girls). We do know it’s popular, though, making Monster High...
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