Children's passion for smartphones and tablets has become the subject of heated debate among parents. Most people think that rather than sitting in front of a gadget screen, it is better to do something useful. The truth, as usual, is in the middle - you can play on your tablet and benefit from development by installing educational and educational games into it.
Developers of mobile games and applications have created a lot of high-quality content that helps develop useful skills such as logic, attention, motor skills, spatial thinking, imagination, as well as introduce letters and numbers, teach counting and combine concepts. Moreover, games can be roughly classified according to age categories - from the youngest gamers to high school students, and some applications will be of interest even to their parents.
- Games for little ones
- Games for preschoolers
- Games for younger students
- Universal games
Educational games for little ones
Applications for kids are aimed at developing basic skills - recognizing colors and shapes of objects, fine motor skills and attention. The developers take into account the curiosity of two-year-olds and their desire to understand the world, so all graphic elements are made in bright rich colors, and the controls are understandable to every child.
Drawing
- Developer – Bini Bambini Academy
- Size - 33 MB
Educational animated drawing game for children from two years of age. Most of all, kids like it when the image they drew comes to life on the screen - jumps, flies, laughs.
The program includes 30 characters that a child can draw, as well as 100+ animation and sound demonstrations for memorizing the voices of the animal world, contour and finger drawing, coloring, and the ability to save drawings.
Animal sounds
- Developer – Family Kids Studio
- Size - 37 MB
One of the notable advantages of the educational application is that it can work even without an Internet connection. The catalog includes voices of over 30 species of animals, birds and insects. The baby can hear them by clicking on the corresponding image. While playing, children remember the names and voices of representatives of the animal world. Voice acting is performed in Russian.
Learning shapes and colors
- Developer – Elka games
- Size - about 75 MB
The toy is designed to teach and develop memory, logic, spatial thinking, as well as fine motor skills of children aged 2-4 years.
The game set contains logical tasks, development games, cards, sorting, which teach memorization of colors, geometric shapes, and comparison of identical elements.
Education for children 4-5 years old
This age is perfect for carefully starting to teach your child letters and numbers. Now the baby is already able to analyze the properties of objects, purposefully influence them, he is calmer, more diligent and better organized. If a child can enthusiastically play educational games for 10-15 minutes, go ahead! The age of 4-5 years is ideal for enrolling your child in some kind of club or sports section. By this time, the physical development of the child’s musculoskeletal system allows him to successfully master the basics of swimming, choreography, martial arts, and so on.
If you notice a child's inclination towards linguistics, learning a foreign language or attending a theater club will be an excellent solution for developing these abilities. Modeling, fine arts, and vocals are perfect for creative children. However, if a child does not yet know how to focus attention, consciously carry out developmental tasks, is impatient and reacts violently to his own failures, he should hold off a little from reading and attending clubs.
Making crafts together will help your child learn to concentrate. You should start with simple details so that the result is quick, gradually complicating the task. During the work, it is important to show the child that any failure can be corrected. Learning the alphabet, numbers and animals can easily be integrated into this process. With a little imagination, you can kill several birds with one stone. To develop fine motor skills, it is advisable to use exercises such as walking a pen through a maze, tracing and coloring pictures, weaving, modeling and much more.
Smartphone games for preschoolers
The preschool education program provides for preparation for school, development of logical thinking and mastering counting skills. The gameplay is focused on familiarization with letters, numbers, and basic concepts of the surrounding world.
Letters: learning to read is fun!
- Developer: Vostraw
- Size - 57 MB
One of the best apps for teaching children to read. The developers used a combination of the most effective techniques today: Zaitsev’s technique, the sound-letter method and others. Words are divided into “warehouses” (analogous to syllables), the child sees both the whole word and the “warehouses” of which it consists.
All audio is voiced by a professional announcer. Of course, learning takes place in a playful way so that the child does not get bored. There are modes designed for a child to use independently: he just needs to click on a word, and it will open for listening in its entirety and “by word.”
Fixies
- Developer — DEVGAME KIDS
- Size - 70 MB
The heroes of the favorite animated series, Simka and Nolik, will introduce the preschooler to the outside world from the inside - they will talk about the operation of home appliances, teach them to recognize musical instruments by sound, teach them how to properly care for pets, and also introduce them to technical tools.
Consolidation of knowledge occurs in educational quests, guessing games, and fixatives. There are a huge number of applications with these heroes.
Semka
- Developer — Syomka Games
- Size - 4.2 MB
A universal game collection that includes activities for both the youngest (from 1 year old) and older children. All sections are grouped by age categories and types (riddles, group games, single games).
The application can not only occupy the child’s attention on the tablet, but will also become an assistant for educators, as it includes detailed descriptions of outdoor activities, creative sections such as origami, creating crafts, and conducting educational experiments.
Can work even without an Internet connection.
ABC for children
- Developer — Bini Bambini
- Size - 43 MB
The game product teaches children 3-5 years old the Russian and English alphabet, the concept of syllables, the basics of reading, and also develops fine manual motor skills.
The menu includes live letters, more than a hundred words, puzzles, constructors, and also has two modes of reading by letter or by syllable.
Math for kids
- Developer — RV AppStudios
- Size - 32 MB
What could be more interesting for a preschooler than playing while learning or learning while playing? The educational program includes simple counting, basic comparisons of numbers, puzzles and quizzes on addition, subtraction, and matching missing numbers.
The child will have to count not boring examples, but bright fruits, funny animals, toys, geometric figures.
Plan a budget with the whole family
CoinKeeper
Application for family financial planning. It is easy to use, so you can also involve children in the process. In the program, you can keep track of expenses and income, limit your monthly budget, and analyze how money is spent.
Advantages:
- creating budget charts and graphs;
- access from different devices to a single family budget;
- displaying all accounts, expenses and balances on one screen;
- you can save and save money for specific purposes;
- designed for different currencies;
- will remind you when you need to pay your loans.
Price: Free, with paid versions: from 150 to 2999 rubles per product on Google Play and from 149 to 1490 rubles in the App Store.
Supported platforms : Android and iOS.
User review on Google Play:
— The most convenient service I have ever used! Minimum labor costs for entering expenses/income, intuitive interface. From the very first days of use, accounting became a habit, thanks to the simplicity of the service. Many thanks to the developers! A special plus for technical support. They respond very quickly.
Video review:
This application has a clear and well-thought-out interface; money in the form of coins can be easily dragged from account to account. Updated regularly. For beginners, there is a tutorial in the app that will help your child master it.
Link to the application website: https://coinkeeper.me/
SberKids
A special version of the Sberbank mobile application for children. The application is available to children from 6 to 13 years old who have a bank card, and their parents.
Pros:
- contains life hacks on the topic of financial literacy;
- parents can set a limit on purchases made by the child;
- allows you to see what your child is saving for and plan gifts for him.
Minuses:
- You cannot make purchases in online stores located on foreign sites, for example;
- There is no way to transfer funds to other accounts, even to parents, or withdraw cash.
Price: Free.
Supported platforms : Android, iOS.
Link to the application website: https://www.sberbank.ru/
Smart Receipts
Instead of hoarding paper receipts, you can scan and organize them through this app. All you need to do is take a photo of your receipts, and the program itself will categorize expenses and generate reports. The application will be useful for parents to easily calculate expenses associated with their child’s education in clubs and sections, visits to doctors, etc.
Pros:
- recognizes information in a receipt based on 20 types of data (date, price, tax, payment methods, etc.);
- supports PDF, CSV and ZIP formats, so you can use reports not only for yourself, but also for running your business;
- can calculate the distance you travel - you can transfer this information to your employer to reimburse travel expenses from home to office.
Minuses:
- presence of advertising.
Price: Free. There is paid content: from 75 to 699 rubles in Google Play, from 60 to 600 rubles in the Apple Store.
Supported platforms: Android, iOS.
Link to application website : https://www.smartreceipts.co/
What should a junior high school student play?
Primary school age is characterized by curiosity, as well as a thirst for new things, so a child of 7-9 years old will be interested in getting to know the world around us, as well as taking part in the adventures of the heroes of their favorite cartoons.
Safety on the road
- Developer – BabyBus Kids Games
- Size - 54 MB
A useful tutorial for children 6-8 years old will explain the basics of safe behavior on the road, teach how to behave in various situations on the street, role-playing possible scenes in tasks.
The knowledge invested in the game will become especially relevant during the summer holidays, when children have more free time.
Space Atlas
- Developer – Vito Technology
- Size - 87 MB
Give your child a virtual telescope on your smartphone with the game Space Atlas! Using the application, you can watch a star projection on real parts of the sky, see the sky of the past or future with a time machine, use augmented reality technology, get acquainted with planets, stars, satellites, and other space objects.
Masha and the Bear
- Developer — AppQuiz
- Size - 33 MB
The application contains educational and entertaining content that will be of interest to children of different ages. It includes language learning, drawing, puzzles, and musical games.
Additionally, there are sections for younger children, in which the child learns counting, basic calculations, and mastering geometric shapes together with the characters of the animated series.
Preparatory group. Senior preschool age. Children 6-7 years old
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Universal tablet games for everyone
Despite the fact that electronic toys are generally considered the prerogative of younger children, there are applications that will be of interest not only to children and teenagers, but even to their parents. The rating of games for family time includes three universal products for Android and iOS.
Toca Kitchen 2
- Developer: Toca Boca
- Size - 56 MB
A creative game whose main principle is unlimited freedom of expression in cooking. There is food in the refrigerator, equipment in the kitchen, including an oven, juicer, deep fryer, and at the table there are guests who try the prepared treats. Fried watermelon? Let's see if the cheerful gourmets will like the dish!
Papers
- Developer — Interactive Moolt DTv
- Size - 90 MB
The application is based on a popular cartoon - all locations and characters fully correspond to the plot. The game kit includes coloring books, a creative studio, a photo editor, printed drawings, and interactive modeling. Any action of the player leads to a new development of the plot - it is simply impossible to lose. Experiment and admire the fruits of your imagination!
Animation Desk
- Developer – Kdan Mobile Software LTD
- Size - 13 MB
A graphic game that will be interesting to all children of all ages, as well as their parents. The player has access to several graphic tools, adjusting diameter and transparency, changing backgrounds, working with frames, animation, as well as several color palettes. A distinctive plus is a convenient, intuitive control interface.
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