Help your kids set a healthy balance between work and play by using these apps, websites and gadgets during their free time. We’ve rounded up a selection of fun yet educational options to keep little ones hooked and away from pointless games.
Dr Panda’s Hoopa City
This paid app has fun and interactive educational values, letting kids role play and use their imaginations. It’s a character game for primary school children, featuring Hoopa the Hippo. Kids must combine elements to help construct cities by building roads, houses and more. It also features pioneering new mechanics so players can merge elements to discover secret combinations to unlock different buildings.
weatherwizkids.com
Developed by meteorologist Crystal Wicker, it is made for children to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather. It is also a great educational website for teachers and parents, with the right tools to explain the different types of weather to little ones, from rain to famines and hurricanes. Natural disasters such as volcanoes and tsunamis are also covered in detail.
V-Tech Kidizoom
Encourage your child’s creativity by giving them this device that’s designed for children who may not be old enough to handle a more sophisticated and expensive device such as a smartphone. One of the nice things about it is that it can take pictures as well as video, making it a more versatile option. It even comes with some interesting effects such as a voice changer plus photo stamps and border tools – the perfect gadget to hone their latent talent.
wonderopolis.com
This site feeds and nurtures curiosity and imagination, which lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages. Wonderopolis makes kids forget learning was ever an ordeal by providing daily information through videos and easy-to-read stories. These wonders are real questions asked by real children around the world, and they include interesting thoughts such as: “What brings a tear to your eye?” and “How do mirrors work?”
kiddle.co
The website is a promising a child-friendly search engine for kids browsing the Internet, powered by Google. It uses a Google Custom Search bar embedded within the site in a bid to filter out adult material. It uses a colourful interface and large thumbnails to appeal to kids of all ages.
