You may have snagged cheap airplane tickets and discount hotel rooms, but that does not guarantee that your vacation will go smoothly. Often the biggest challenge for parents is how to keep their children occupied while they are in transit to their final destination.
There are several quality childrens applications for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, all of which use iPhone compatible apps. The best apps not only do a great job entertaining, but they also often teach kids something:
Splish Splash Inn for 99 cents is an aquatic themed app where children visit an underwater hotel with each room containing different sea creatures. This app teaches counting in a fun, colorful way, and kids are able to touch and move fish on the screen and listen to the musical sounds that they make.
Peekaboo Forest for $1.99 is easy for very young travelers to use. Kids just have to touch forest scenes to see animals come out of their hiding places. This is a great way to teach toddlers the names of different animals and the sounds that they make.
Park Math for $1.99 is aimed at kids ready to work on their basic counting, addition and subtraction skills as well as things like pattern recognition. Activities include counting out food to feed a hungry hippo and sorting out groups of cute dogs from smallest to largest. There are two different levels for different ages and development stages.
Montessorium Intro to Letters for $4.99 teaches children letter sounds, phonograms, and names by having them trace letters with their fingers and record and listen to their own voices making their sounds.
Martha Speaks: Dog Party for $2.99 is an app were Martha leads kids through three different activities/games designed to help improve their vocabulary while making them laugh.
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