With the onset of summer months, parents to wish to stimulate kids’ mind with interesting learning materials to minimize the time they waste on watching TV and playdate. If you are seeking ideas to arrange motivating learning activities for your kids for these summer months, then your Smartphone will provide the best platform to launch learning sessions for your kids. Following Smartphone apps will ignite their inquisitive mind to motivate them learn more with entertainment.
ABC Play
ABC Play is another addition to the set of educational tools such as ABC Music, ABC Wildlife, and ABC Go of ABC series. The ABC Play consists of words and letters and each of those start a game.  The app is made entertaining to intrigue kids’ mind with YouTube videos and photos that teach kids identifying words and letter. At that, fun fascinating facts illustrated in this ABC Play app will stimulate kids to learn even more. Get this app downloaded on your iPad and iPhone from iTunes App Store for $1.99
Musical Me! – by Duck Duck Moose
When your children will be bored of playing with the words, give this Musical Me! – by Duck Duck Moose app to explore the world of music. This iPad and iPhone app will open up a world of music to help them delve into basic concepts of music such as pitch, rhythm, notes. They can also learn popular children’s songs such as Pop Goes the Weasel, Mary Had a Little Lamb with the musical patterns of those songs. Moreover, your kids will get preliminary education on playing musical instruments such as cymbals, drum, egg-shaker, triangle, duck and many more. This app can be downloaded from App Store for $1.99.
Al Yankovic: When I Grow Up
Illustrations and games always intrigue children’s mind and when those presented with rich graphics on retina display of iPad and iPhone, the impact is much more than usual. That’s why, this Al Yankovic: When I Grow Up iPad and iPhone application will grab your kids’ attention for longer. The app tickle children’s mind with various challenging games, reader interactions, galore surprises such as training a snail, shaving a tarantula etc. The app throws light upon such bizarre professions that you never thought of, however your children may aspire to be such as a sumo wrestler. Download this app for only $3.99.
World of Safari 123
The World of Safari 123 iPhone app is perfect for kindergarten and pre-school kids to grasp fundamental lessons. Your kids will learn how to count also, addition and subtraction, learn the names of animals too. Kids get rewarded as they surpass a level, achieve number game and the complexity of questions further increases to hone kids’ skills. This app uses motion sensors to respond to shake and tilting – tell your kids to tilt and shake to alter the color of the sky, get the animals moving. Despite little price of this app (at $.99), this app is full of fun, surprises and educational benefits for your kids.
You can also download other fun-filled learning apps that are equally exciting for kids to switch off their TV and learn such as Montessori Crosswords, Visual Math Level 1, iWriteWords, Math Bingo, Rocket Math, Britannica Kids: Dinosaurs and many more.
I would also recommend parents to pay attention to such an educational iPhone app for their kids as Kinder Hangman – http://sharkfuel.com/kinderhangman.html it is an interesting iPhone game that is helpful for child development and allows kids to learn new words quickly and effectively. Learning process is organized as an interesting game with graphical themes and animations. This game is recommended for kids of 5-10 years. Great app!