Written By Guest Blogger Ashlee Goletz
The holiday season has arrived! This time of year brings memories of all things fun and festive such as decorating, opening presents, and baking cookies. It is a joyous time of year when family and friends get together to celebrate.
BridgingApps has put together a list of our favorite winter holiday apps for you and your family to enjoy. We have included educational apps to help develop math skills, creativity, and vocabulary as well as some apps just for fun! Happy Holidays!
Listed below are five of our favorites. Click the link to see the full list of Winter Holiday apps: https://search.bridgingapps.org/lists/888bf15a-3c5e-4562-9525-067cdb6a966e
Starfall Gingerbread .99
Starfall Snowman is an early learning app for creativity, early math skills and fun. Children love making a gingerbread girl or boy while they learn 2D and 3D shapes and read vocabulary. Activities include creating a tray of gingerbread cookies, then choosing a favorite cookie to run through a maze following shapes or shape patterns. Early learners enjoy running the maze again and again. This app is a great winter-themed app for children between the ages of 2 and 5.
Click on the link below for full review: https://search.bridgingapps.org/apps/029b7859-f2dc-ecce-1583-7ab6d1275e25
Dr. Seuss Camera – The Grinch Edition $.99
This is a fun app for the holidays that the whole family can enjoy together. The purpose of the app is to create e-cards using characters and items from Dr. Seuss’ the Grinch. You can customize the cards by placing choosing your own background, adding your own photos, adding decorations and then saving the image to your camera roll or emailing the e-card to friends or family members.
Click on the link below for full review:
https://search.bridgingapps.org/apps/582eb7ac-0deb-378f-4e63-5e0dafaa550b
Cookie Doodle $.99
Cookie Doodle is an app that is perfect for working on comprehension of step by step instructions. The app allows for your child to completely customize a cookie. You get to choose the type of dough, roll it out, choose a cookie cutter or make your own shape of cookie. Next, you bake the cookie in the “oven” and then pick from a wide array of icing/sprinkle choices for decoration. Finally the cookie is virtually eaten, or you can place in the cookie jar to come back to your cookie masterpiece.
Click on the link below for full review:
https://search.bridgingapps.org/apps/ded2f183-9505-8b7c-01ee-b762fd92d5ef
Toca Hair Salon – Christmas Gift FREE
Toca Hair Salon – Christmas Gift is an entertaining game app for preschoolers up to tweens. In this self-directed play activity children can choose to cut, color, comb or style Santa Claus’ beard and hair. They can also trim and decorate a Christmas tree. High quality graphics, sound effects and music add to the overall experience keeping kids engaged and entertained.
Click on the link below for full review:
https://search.bridgingapps.org/apps/5386d990-8955-87dc-27d9-5ecb5d17a1ed
123 Color: Hanukkah Coloring Book $1.99
123 Color: Hanukkah Coloring Book (Now With Numbers, Letters, and Colors Spoken in 12 Languages and Dialects) is a coloring book with four thematic coloring books for Hanukkah. Books use the color by number system, upper case and lower case letters. This is a fun themed app for typically developing early learners and students with developmental delays. With twelve different language options, this app is great for ELL students.
Click on the link below for full review:
https://search.bridgingapps.org/apps/95de49ff-a773-0411-601d-cc052b6bf124
To view our full Winter Holiday App List click here: https://search.bridgingapps.org/lists/888bf15a-3c5e-4562-9525-067cdb6a966e
BridgingApps Winter Holiday App List