If you or your older children like word games, grab this one while it's free.
Developer Mindshapes made 3 apps free last week that are great for toddlers and preschoolers. The Opposites is for older kids (and their parents!) and went free today. Simple to play - a boy and a girl shout words out and they accumulate on screen. You have to match each word to its antonym before the screen fills up. Correctly matching a gold-colored word to its opposite earns the kids onscreen a fruit snack, and you more time. Completion of one level unlocks the next and if you're stuck on any particular words there's a dictionary for each level showing both word definitions and the correct word pairings.
Addictive - I had to stop myself playing in order to post as today's GFAOTD!
Please note: There is a link to the developer's other apps in iTunes as well as a one-time pop up about the developer's story library, MagicTown.
** 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:
An exciting word game which challenges children (ages 7+) to match up pairs of opposing words in increasingly difficult levels. ‘Opposites’ starts with easy word pairs, like 'up-down', but as players level up they are challenged with more complex and abstract pairings, until they are dealing with rare descriptive and technical words, from biology, economics, politics, medicine, poetry and classical Greek prefixes!
The game also helps children understand the importance of word-context and is a great opportunity for them to think about how the words that they use oppose other words. This deeply 'encodes' new words as vocabulary, which will support them in their reading, writing and oral literacy skills.
‘Opposites’ includes a customized dictionary of word meanings and synonyms in a child-friendly format far easier to use than traditional paper dictionaries. This dictionary was designed and written especially for the game. Players can either learn the words before they play a new level, or, if they favor trial-and-error-based learning, they can jump right into the game and see how they do.
Each word is voiced by a male or female character to promote oral use of each word and to build confidence.
Can you make it to Level 10? Do you know what 'efficacious' means? Just what exactly is the opposite of 'bear'?
**CHECK OUT OUR OTHER FUN EDUCATIONAL APPS** ‘Meteor Math’, ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’ and ‘Jack and the Beanstalk by Mindshapes’.
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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! Enjoy!
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.
Please also see our Top 10 Preschool Apps (staff picks), Top 10 Free Apps for Learning Letters, Deanne's Top 10 Free Apps for ASD Kids, Top 12 Apps for Mom, Editor's Top 10, Reader's Choice Top 10, and Top 10 Addition Apps.
(** 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) Open Wide Snap (we rated five stars)
4) ** Toddler/Preschool Flash Cards (warning! now has ads!)
5) Disneyland Explorer
6) National Geographic Explorer
7) Toy Story Read Along
8) The Lorax
9) Hide Run Growl (we rated five stars)
10) Peggy Storybook 1
11) Play 123
12) ** Storylines for Schools
13) Little Stars - Toddler Games (letters, numbers, shapes, colors, words)
14) Disney's Where's My Water - free
15) Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Road Rally Appisode
16) ** Playful Minds: Math (5-8 years old)
17) ** Build a Word Express
18) ABC Alphabet Phonics
19) Rover (flash-enabled web browser for kids)
20) Lego Star Wars - Battle Orders
21) Little Writer - Tracing Letters, Numbers, Words and Shapes (awesome app)
22) Disney's Jake's Never Land Pirate School
23) Learning Games for Preschool to Kindergarten
24) Scholastic's Sushi Monster (addition and multiplication)
25) NASA App HD
26) I Can Write 2 (make sentences about images)
27) Khan Academy (educations videos for adults and older children)
28) PBS Kids Video (all their favorites, U.S. only)
29) ** Draw Something (Pictionary online! Older kids/adults only)
30) ** Brain Quest (from the people that make those card thingees)
31) Miss Spider apps (Bedtime Story and Tea Party)
32) Super Duper's Using I and Me
33) ** Thomas & Friends - Engine Activities
34) ShowMe (virtual whiteboard app, shared education videos)
35) ** Goodnight Safari (baby animals!)
36) Toca Kitchen Monsters (all kids need Toca Boca)
37) Rocket Speller
38) ** Scribble Press (make an book!)
39) ** Toontastic (we rated five stars)
40) ** Puzzingo
41) Little Finder
42) Lego Duplo Jams
43) Touch the Sound
44) Color Uncovered (please don't let your dog drive)
45) The Elephant's Bath
46) ** Spy Mouse
47) Bluster! (McGraw-Hill)
48) Songs for Kids 1 and 2
49) ** Math Vs. Zombies
50) ** Let's Color (drawings come to life)
51) Chugginton - Be Safe
52) ** Alphabet Tracing
53) ABC Mouse Zoo Sets 1, 2 and 3
54) ** BrainPop Featured Movie (No. 1 on our Editor's Choice list) 2133
55) Easy Bake Cupcakes
56) ** Articulation Station (lite version, only one letter free)
57) Kids Learning - Photo Touch Learning Concepts
58) ** Clockwork Brain (mind-training puzzles for older kids/adults, has ads)
59) Rocket Math Free (free version of one of our Top Picks)
60) ABA Flash Cards & Games - Emotions
61) 6-in-1 Children's Games (lite version)
62) ** Sock Puppets
63) Green ABCs (previously cost $30)
64) ** Monkey Drum
65) iTunes U (go to college on your iOS device/older kids & adults)
66) Sprout's Doodle Dots
67) ** MeeGenius (six ebooks for free!)
68) DialSafe Pro (we gave five stars, kids learn to dial emergency numbers)
69) Whole Foods' Awesome Eats
70) Creatures of Light (bioluminescence!)
71) Feel Electric (The Electric Company is back!)
72) Tim and Tom
73) Lego Duplo Zoo
74) Hookitty-Tookitty-Tah
75) Cool To Be Clever
76) Sprout's Good Night Star (nighttime routine, brusha! brusha! brusha!)
77) ** Booksy (one of our Top Picks)
78) Language Lab: Core Words
79) Hannah Habeebee McHats
80) Jeff the Mis-Fish
81) Kids Learning - My First Numbers Counting Game
82) SpellingCity
83) Screen Chomp (virtual whiteboard)
84) Chipper's Rainy Day Adventure
85) Jack and the Beanstalk (modern version of the classic tale)
86) ABC Mouse Grand Canyon
87) Lego Star Wars Funzone
88) Super Duper's Let's Name Things
89) ** BrainPop Jr. Movie of the Week
90) Stewie The Duck Learns To Swim
91) Google Earth
92) Fisher Price's Laugh & Learn Animal Sounds
93) Disney's Where's My Perry Free
94) Real Fireworks Artwork
95) ** Motion Math - Hungry Fish
96) Squiggles (bring scribbles to life, one of our Top Picks)
97) Little Stars - Word Wizard
98) Adventures of the 7Wonderlicious Girls (girls doing their best, helping others, being brave, learning and feeling good about themselves)
99) The Lorax Truffula Shuffle (U.S. only for some reason)
100) Scooby-Doo Whos Are You? by Hallmark (Zoinks!)
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)
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