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20 Educational Apps to Download to Your Tablet for Kids

Education

While our kids are stuck at home, we’ve allowed them to use a little more screens than they are used to.

While I don’t believe in taking them away completely, I want them to do a few educational activities while they’re at home too.

Downloading a few educational apps to your kid’s tablet can help encourage them to learn while having fun, and they won’t even know they’re learning!

These apps are educational and fun, but they don’t feel like work to your kids! These also work great for homeschooling!

If this sudden jump into homeschooling is throwing you for a loop, these great tips for keeping your sanity while homeschooling is for you!.

Here are 20 educational apps to download to your tablet for kids.

20 Educational Apps to Download to Your Tablet for Kids

Educational Apps to Download to Your Tablet for Kids

These great educational apps will keep your kids learning while playing on their tablet.

‎Barefoot World Atlas

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Fly around the interactive 3D globe and discover the rich wonders of our planet. Barefoot World Atlas show-stopping interactive app allows children to explore an enticing, spinning world packed with animated icons, an ever-changing soundscape and interactive quizzes.

‎Stack the States® 2

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Watch the states come to life as you learn US geography!

Stack the States® is back and better than ever with new question types, new bonus games, voice mode, 3D graphics and a detailed interactive map!

‎Crazy Gears

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Explore a captivating digital playground in this tantalizing puzzle game! Children manipulate gears, chains, rods, and pulleys, to pull themselves through each level, which teaches them how different mechanisms affect one another when constructing a machine

‎Phonics Ninja

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Phonics Ninja is an exciting educational game that helps kids rapidly learn letter sounds, blends, and digraphs by sight, sound, and touch.

DragonBox Algebra 5+ 

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DragonBox Algebra 5+ Is perfect for giving young children a head start in mathematics and algebra. Children as young as five can easily begin to grasp the basic processes involved in solving linear equations without even realising that they are learning. The game is intuitive, engaging and fun, allowing anyone to learn the basics of algebra at his or her own pace.

‎ABCmouse.com

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ABCmouse is the award-winning learning program that covers reading, math, art, music, and more for kids ages 2 to 8. Created by teachers and education experts, it has 10,000+ exciting Learning Activities for children at all academic levels.

Fish School by Duck Duck Moose

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A playful underwater experience filled with 8 educational activities, this award-winning app teaches children letters, numbers, shapes and colors with colorful fish and friendly sea life characters.

‎Marble Math Junior

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Solve math problems by collecting numbers as you move your marble through a series of fun mazes (with audio questions for emerging readers).

‎Toca Kitchen Monsters

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In this Monster edition of the super-hit Toca Kitchen you can cook and play with food for two hungry monsters. Pick any ingredient and prepare it in your own way! Slice, boil, fry, cook, microwave or mix?

PBS KIDS Games 

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Looking for fun, educational games for kids to play? The PBS KIDS Games app has over 100 free learning games with your favorite PBS KIDS characters. Kids can play and explore learning anytime, anywhere!

Teach Your Monster to Read: Phonics & Reading Game

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Children create a monster and take it on a magical journey over three extensive games - meeting a host of colorful characters along the way and improving their reading skills as they progress.

Rox's Secret Code

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Rox’s Secret Code is entertainment and education in one. Play the game to learn the basics of coding. Rox’s Secret Code inspires kids aged 5-8 to become makers of technology and shape their own future.

‎Merriam-Webster Dictionary

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Get America’s most useful and respected dictionary. And now we’ve added new word games! It’s never been more fun to learn new words and test your vocabulary for everyone from English learners to total word nerds. Hundreds of words to test your skills.

Duolingo: Learn Languages Free

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Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Hebrew, Welsh and English. 

Epic!: Kids' Books, Audio Books, Videos & eBooks 

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Epic! is the #1 children’s digital library for kids 12 and under, offering access to over 40,000 high-quality books for kids, learning videos, reading quizzes and more. It's an unlimited reading library your child can take anywhere! 

NSF Science Zone

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Whether you’re a teacher, student, or just fascinated by science, the NSF Science Zone app will ignite your imagination. Featuring hundreds of exciting videos and high-resolution photos from a dozen disciplines, you can spend hours absorbed in discoveries that take you from the depths of space, to the wonders of the unimaginably small, to the far corners of our own planet.

GoNoodle

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Make screen time active with 300+ videos that feature kids songs, dance, yoga, mindfulness, stretching, and more!

‎Osmo Words

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Explore the land of Words, a magical place where characters challenge you to guess and spell the on-screen images. Play collaboratively or competitively with your real-life friends or our loveable characters! 

Words have power in this adventure! Will you become the Word Champion?

‎NASA Visualization Explorer

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This is the NASA Visualization Explorer, the coolest way to get stories about advanced space-based research delivered right to your iOS device. A direct connection to NASA’s extraordinary fleet of research spacecraft, this app presents cutting edge research stories in an engaging and exciting format. See the Earth as you’ve never seen it before; travel to places otherwise unavailable to even the most intrepid explorers!

‎Hungry Caterpillar Play School

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In Hungry Caterpillar Play School children encounter develop­mentally appropriate instruction through exploration and meaningful play.

What are your kids’ favorite educational apps? I’d love to add even more to this list!

March 31, 2020 · Leave a Comment

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Amanda is an adventurous mom of six based in southern Virginia. She’s teaching her crew to live life to the fullest whether they are home on the farm or trekking through a new concrete jungle. She's passionate about intentional mothering through life’s joys and challenges, and learning to embrace the gift of each new day together.

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