This is one my favorite preschool apps. Kids learn their letters, numbers, colors and shapes by coloring more than 350 pages! 123 Color is serious Top Pick territory!
And since this is the international version, one of 17 languages can be added if English isn't the native tongue or if you'd like a child speaking English to learn some basics of a foreign language.
Download it because it's only free today, July 31 U.S. time!
Thanks to Carisa at Digital Storytime for the note about this app going free!
If you would like to download (123 Color International, iPad/iPhone) please support Smart Apps for Kids by using this link button:
** Only the app's developer can control when an app is free or not. All apps that we post as Good Free Apps of the Day are verified to be free at the time of this post. We make no guarantees otherwise. **
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From iTunes:
** 100% FREE TODAY ONLY!! *** CELEBRATING BEING THE #1 EDUCATION APP IN CHINA AND 14 OTHER COUNTRIES, TOP 10 IN 50 COUNTRIES
123 Color International Edition teaches numbers, letters and colors, spoken in 17 languages and dialects:
• Arabic
• Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese)
• Dutch
• English (American, Australian, and British)
• French
• German
• Hebrew
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
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• Woman's Day Magazine names 123 Color the #1 app for kids on holiday.
• The New York Times says 123 Color is, "nice for introducing the sound of a new language."
• PadGadget.com says, with 123 Color, "Kids can let their inner Picasso shine."
• 123 Color becomes the App Store's #1 ranked education app.
• 123 Color was named #1 ranked art app for kids by Babble.com.
--
123 Color International includes engaging artwork, voice-overs, music, sound effects, and animation.
Kids learn colors, letters, numbers, and shapes, all while playing, painting, and singing.
123 Color International includes more than 350 cartoons, drawings, photos, and handwriting guides in all, to be painted by freestyle finger painting or touch-to-fill, along with voice-overs of letters, numbers, and colors in 17 languages, plus much more!
123 Color International is packed with features and teaches the following:
• Speaks numbers, letters, and colors in 17 languages, each spoken by a native speaker of that language.
• Displays spelling of numbers and colors in all 17 languages.
• Teaches basic shapes including squares, triangles, circles, ovals, parallelograms, and trapezoids
• Teaches compound shapes including cubes, pyramids, cones, wedges, concentric circles, and more
• Teaches artistic expression, drawing and painting skills
Additional features include:
• Freestyle finger painting with Perfect Paint™, a patent-pending technology that makes it impossible for kids to paint outside the lines.
• Select a 10 or 30 color palette (10 for young children)
• American, Australian, and British English voice-overs included
• Displays Chinese Pinyin and Romanized, phonetic spelling of numbers and colors in Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Hebrew
• Select up to two languages to be spoken and displayed when your child touches numbers and colors
• Proper spelling of numbers and color names displayed in selected languages (for example, when 1 is touched, "One / Ichi " is displayed when English and Japanese are selected)
• 25 fun children songs
• 23 sound effects
• Save, email, and print (AirPrint) artwork to share with friends and family
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123 Color is also a powerful tool for introducing children to native and foreign languages.
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Every day we pick what we affectionately call the Good Free App of the Day, an app that we have downloaded, tested and certified: It can't have a ton of ads or just a little content with a ton of in-app purchases.
It also has to be good.
We then present them to you to read, download, and share and, based on which ones got the most hits, here are your Top 100 Favorite Free Apps!
We've done our best to only include apps that are permanently free, but sometimes developers do change their minds so please leave a comment if you find an app that's no longer free.
Enjoy!
(** indicates that the app contains in-app purchases or is very closely tied to a purchase)
1) Educreations Interactive Whiteboard (students/teachers can make whiteboard videos)
2) LEGO App 4+ (build a vehicle and then use it in activities)
3) ** Toddler/Preschool Flash Cards (warning! now has ads!)
5) Open Wide Snap (we rated five stars, pictured)
6) National Geographic Explorer
8) The Lorax
10) ** Storylines for Schools
11) Play 123
12) Hide Run Growl (we rated five stars)
13) Disney's Where's My Water - free (pictured)
14) Little Stars - Toddler Games (letters, numbers, shapes, colors, words)
15) Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Road Rally Appisode
16) ** Playful Minds: Math (5-8 years old)
17) ** Build a Word Express
18) Rover (flash-enabled web browser for kids)
19) Lego Star Wars - Battle Orders
20) ABC Alphabet Phonics
21) NASA App HD (pictured)
22) Disney's Jake's Never Land Pirate School
23) Scholastic's Sushi Monster
24) Khan Academy (educations videos for adults and older children)
25) ** Draw Something (Pictionary online! Older kids/adults only)
26) I Can Write 2 (make sentences about images)
27) Super Duper's Using I and Me
28) Little Writer - Tracing Letters, Numbers, Words and Shapes (awesome app)
29) Miss Spider apps (Bedtime Story and Tea Party)
30) PBS Kids Video (all their favorites, U.S. only)
31) ** Thomas & Friends - Engine Activities
32) ** Brain Quest (from the people that make those card thingees)
33) ** Goodnight Safari (baby animals!)
34) Toca Kitchen Monsters (all kids need Toca Boca)
35) ShowMe (virtual whiteboard app, shared education videos)
36) Learning Games for Preschool to Kindergarten
37) ** Scribble Press (make an book!)
38) Rocket Speller
39) ** Toontastic (we rated five stars)
40) Color Uncovered (please don't let your dog drive)
41) ** Puzzingo
42) Little Finder
43) Lego Duplo Jams
44) ** Spy Mouse
45) Touch the Sound
47) Bluster! (McGraw-Hill)
48) ABC Mouse Zoo Sets 1, 2 and 3
49) ** Let's Color (drawings come to life)
50) ** Math Vs. Zombies
51) ** BrainPop Featured Movie (No. 1 on our Editor's Choice list)
53) ** Articulation Station (lite version, only one letter free)
55) ** MeeGenius (six ebooks for free!)
56) ** Alphabet Tracing
57) Kids Learning - Photo Touch Learning Concepts
58) ** Sock Puppets
59) ABA Flash Cards & Games - Emotions
60) ** Monkey Drum
61) 6-in-1 Children's Games (lite version)
62) ** Clockwork Brain (mind-training puzzles for older kids/adults)
64) DialSafe Pro (we gave five stars, kids learn to dial emergency numbers)
67) Sprout's Good Night Star (nighttime routine, brusha! brusha! brusha!)
68) iTunes U (go to college on your iOS device/older kids & adults)
70) Chipper's Rainy Day Adventure
71) Lego Duplo Zoo
72) Rocket Math Free
73) Feel Electric (The Electric Company is back!)
74) Screen Chomp (virtual whiteboard)
76) ** BrainPop Jr. Movie of the Week
77) Kids Learning - My First Numbers Counting Game
78) Tim and Tom
79) Google Earth
80) Super Duper's Let's Name Things
81) Stewie The Duck Learns To Swim
82) ** Booksy (one of our Top Picks)
85) Squiggles (bring scribbles to life)
88) ** Motion Math - Hungry Fish
89) Astrid & Siri (ebook, Vikings who love fashion design?)
90) The Lorax Truffula Shuffle (U.S. only for some reason)
91) How Stuff Works (parents/older kids that have had "the talk" only)
92) ** Jingle All the Way (Hallmark Christmas app)
93) Fisher-Price's Laugh & Learn Animal Sounds
94) Pocket Law Firm (learn the amendments)
95) The Land of Me - Story Time
96) ** JibJab Jr. Books (put the child's face in a book!)
97) IQ Test - Free Edition (older kids and parents only, not a real IQ test)
98) ** Domino's Pizza Hero (U.S. only)
99) Little Stars - Word Wizard
100) Little Bird's Internet Security Adventure (internet safety!)
We've done our best to only include apps that are permanently free, but sometimes developers do change their minds, so please leave a comment if you find an app that's no longer free.
(** indicates that the app contains in-app purchases or is very closely tied to a purchase)
And since this is the international version, the language can be switched to one of 17 languages if English isn't the native tongue or if you'd like a child speaking English to learn some basics of a foreign language.
Download it because it's only free today, July 31 U.S. time!
Thanks to Carisa at Digital Storytime for the note about this app going free!
If you would like to download (123 Color International, iPad/iPhone) please support Smart Apps for Kids by using this link button:
** Only the app's developer can control when an app is free or not. All apps that we post as Good Free Apps of the Day are verified to be free at the time of this post. We make no guarantees otherwise. **
****
From iTunes:
** 100% FREE TODAY ONLY!! *** CELEBRATING BEING THE #1 EDUCATION APP IN CHINA AND 14 OTHER COUNTRIES, TOP 10 IN 50 COUNTRIES
123 Color International Edition teaches numbers, letters and colors, spoken in 17 languages and dialects:
• Arabic
• Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese)
• Dutch
• English (American, Australian, and British)
• French
• German
• Hebrew
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
--
• Woman's Day Magazine names 123 Color the #1 app for kids on holiday.
• The New York Times says 123 Color is, "nice for introducing the sound of a new language."
• PadGadget.com says, with 123 Color, "Kids can let their inner Picasso shine."
• 123 Color becomes the App Store's #1 ranked education app.
• 123 Color was named #1 ranked art app for kids by Babble.com.
--
123 Color International includes engaging artwork, voice-overs, music, sound effects, and animation.
Kids learn colors, letters, numbers, and shapes, all while playing, painting, and singing.
123 Color International includes more than 350 cartoons, drawings, photos, and handwriting guides in all, to be painted by freestyle finger painting or touch-to-fill, along with voice-overs of letters, numbers, and colors in 17 languages, plus much more!
123 Color International is packed with features and teaches the following:
• Speaks numbers, letters, and colors in 17 languages, each spoken by a native speaker of that language.
• Displays spelling of numbers and colors in all 17 languages.
• Teaches basic shapes including squares, triangles, circles, ovals, parallelograms, and trapezoids
• Teaches compound shapes including cubes, pyramids, cones, wedges, concentric circles, and more
• Teaches artistic expression, drawing and painting skills
Additional features include:
• Freestyle finger painting with Perfect Paint™, a patent-pending technology that makes it impossible for kids to paint outside the lines.
• Select a 10 or 30 color palette (10 for young children)
• American, Australian, and British English voice-overs included
• Displays Chinese Pinyin and Romanized, phonetic spelling of numbers and colors in Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Hebrew
• Select up to two languages to be spoken and displayed when your child touches numbers and colors
• Proper spelling of numbers and color names displayed in selected languages (for example, when 1 is touched, "One / Ichi " is displayed when English and Japanese are selected)
• 25 fun children songs
• 23 sound effects
• Save, email, and print (AirPrint) artwork to share with friends and family
--
123 Color is also a powerful tool for introducing children to native and foreign languages.
****
Every day we pick what we affectionately call the Good Free App of the Day, an app that we have downloaded, tested and certified: It can't have a ton of ads or just a little content with a ton of in-app purchases.
It also has to be good.
We then present them to you to read, download, and share and, based on which ones got the most hits, here are your Top 100 Favorite Free Apps!
We've done our best to only include apps that are permanently free, but sometimes developers do change their minds so please leave a comment if you find an app that's no longer free.
Enjoy!
(** indicates that the app contains in-app purchases or is very closely tied to a purchase)
1) Educreations Interactive Whiteboard (students/teachers can make whiteboard videos)
2) LEGO App 4+ (build a vehicle and then use it in activities)
3) ** Toddler/Preschool Flash Cards (warning! now has ads!)
5) Open Wide Snap (we rated five stars, pictured)
6) National Geographic Explorer
8) The Lorax
10) ** Storylines for Schools
11) Play 123
12) Hide Run Growl (we rated five stars)
13) Disney's Where's My Water - free (pictured)
14) Little Stars - Toddler Games (letters, numbers, shapes, colors, words)
15) Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Road Rally Appisode
16) ** Playful Minds: Math (5-8 years old)
17) ** Build a Word Express
18) Rover (flash-enabled web browser for kids)
19) Lego Star Wars - Battle Orders
20) ABC Alphabet Phonics
21) NASA App HD (pictured)
22) Disney's Jake's Never Land Pirate School
23) Scholastic's Sushi Monster
24) Khan Academy (educations videos for adults and older children)
25) ** Draw Something (Pictionary online! Older kids/adults only)
26) I Can Write 2 (make sentences about images)
27) Super Duper's Using I and Me
28) Little Writer - Tracing Letters, Numbers, Words and Shapes (awesome app)
29) Miss Spider apps (Bedtime Story and Tea Party)
30) PBS Kids Video (all their favorites, U.S. only)
31) ** Thomas & Friends - Engine Activities
32) ** Brain Quest (from the people that make those card thingees)
33) ** Goodnight Safari (baby animals!)
34) Toca Kitchen Monsters (all kids need Toca Boca)
35) ShowMe (virtual whiteboard app, shared education videos)
36) Learning Games for Preschool to Kindergarten
37) ** Scribble Press (make an book!)
38) Rocket Speller
39) ** Toontastic (we rated five stars)
40) Color Uncovered (please don't let your dog drive)
41) ** Puzzingo
42) Little Finder
43) Lego Duplo Jams
44) ** Spy Mouse
45) Touch the Sound
47) Bluster! (McGraw-Hill)
48) ABC Mouse Zoo Sets 1, 2 and 3
49) ** Let's Color (drawings come to life)
50) ** Math Vs. Zombies
51) ** BrainPop Featured Movie (No. 1 on our Editor's Choice list)
53) ** Articulation Station (lite version, only one letter free)
55) ** MeeGenius (six ebooks for free!)
56) ** Alphabet Tracing
57) Kids Learning - Photo Touch Learning Concepts
58) ** Sock Puppets
59) ABA Flash Cards & Games - Emotions
60) ** Monkey Drum
61) 6-in-1 Children's Games (lite version)
62) ** Clockwork Brain (mind-training puzzles for older kids/adults)
64) DialSafe Pro (we gave five stars, kids learn to dial emergency numbers)
67) Sprout's Good Night Star (nighttime routine, brusha! brusha! brusha!)
68) iTunes U (go to college on your iOS device/older kids & adults)
70) Chipper's Rainy Day Adventure
71) Lego Duplo Zoo
72) Rocket Math Free
73) Feel Electric (The Electric Company is back!)
74) Screen Chomp (virtual whiteboard)
76) ** BrainPop Jr. Movie of the Week
77) Kids Learning - My First Numbers Counting Game
78) Tim and Tom
79) Google Earth
80) Super Duper's Let's Name Things
81) Stewie The Duck Learns To Swim
82) ** Booksy (one of our Top Picks)
85) Squiggles (bring scribbles to life)
88) ** Motion Math - Hungry Fish
89) Astrid & Siri (ebook, Vikings who love fashion design?)
90) The Lorax Truffula Shuffle (U.S. only for some reason)
91) How Stuff Works (parents/older kids that have had "the talk" only)
92) ** Jingle All the Way (Hallmark Christmas app)
93) Fisher-Price's Laugh & Learn Animal Sounds
94) Pocket Law Firm (learn the amendments)
95) The Land of Me - Story Time
96) ** JibJab Jr. Books (put the child's face in a book!)
97) IQ Test - Free Edition (older kids and parents only, not a real IQ test)
98) ** Domino's Pizza Hero (U.S. only)
99) Little Stars - Word Wizard
100) Little Bird's Internet Security Adventure (internet safety!)
We've done our best to only include apps that are permanently free, but sometimes developers do change their minds, so please leave a comment if you find an app that's no longer free.
(** indicates that the app contains in-app purchases or is very closely tied to a purchase)
I live in Hawaii and it is 5:25 pm on 7/31/12 but this app is no longer free. Why?????
Posted by: Cheryl | 07/31/2012 at 10:26 PM