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Tasks for children 5 years old on a tablet. Children's applications for Android

Today, young parents have an additional responsibility - it is not enough to teach a child to read and write, as well as to monitor his health. You also need to make sure that he does not see something inappropriate on the Web, choose safe applications and services, define rules for accessing online from family devices, etc.

Among the tens of thousands of applications that solve such problems, it is difficult to find really useful ones. We've rounded up 12 of the best apps for kids to make life easier for parents.

Safety

ESET NOD32 Parental Control

The safety of our children in the virtual world is just as important as in the real world. Let's start with her.

We all know that children should not be allowed on adult sites. But what about, for example, YouTube? The main video service, along with cartoons, strives to recommend videos that are completely unsuitable for children's eyes.

The ESET NOD32 application automatically blocks harmful sites by category, and in the extended version you can independently open and close access to any services (for example, leaving only a couple of sites with cartoons on a children's tablet).

Also, the application controls the time that the child spends playing games, and, if necessary, limits it. The function of determining the location of the child is extremely useful.

The self-protection system blocks attempts by children to hack the application and remove restrictions. The best part is the starter version of Parental Control.

To whom: parents
Platform:


Life360

The Life 360 ​​family tracker will save you a lot of time and nerves - you will always know where your relatives are. The application allows you to receive information about the location of family members in real time based on GPS module data, or by check-ins in social networks. In this way, parents can receive notifications about when the child comes to school and returns home.

To whom: parents
Platform: iOS | Android
Baby Monitor Annie

The application turns several mobile gadgets into a baby monitor that allows you to monitor the baby from the parent device, talk to him and turn on lullabies while in another room (or on a business trip). Thus, you can look after four children at once; the number of parent devices is unlimited.

To whom: parents
Platform: iOS | Android
kid mode


Curious toddlers, who are too young to have their own smartphone or tablet, love to grab their parents' gadgets. In addition, sometimes a child just needs something to do (for example, on the road). At the same time, our mobile devices often contain important information about work, which a child can easily delete during the game. The Kid mode application solves the problem by restricting access to a certain set of programs.

To whom: parents
Platform: Android

Education


 Duolingo

It is worth learning foreign languages ​​already from the primary grades, but everyone knows how difficult it is to seat kids at textbooks. The Duolingo game application can be a way out - in it, each lesson turns into an exciting quest that brings experience points.

The application trains pronunciation, reading and writing text, starting from the very basics. For training, you can choose English, German and French (the interface itself is completely Russified).

By the way, parents can also improve their English - the application is suitable for any level of language proficiency.

To whom: children from 7 years old and parents
Platform: iOS | Android
living alphabet


In the Living Alphabet app, kids have fun learning the alphabet because there is a mini-game behind each letter. Here you can try on a fashionable mustache for a gentleman, burst soap bubbles, decorate a giraffe or score a goal.

In addition, the application allows you to print the alphabet in high resolution, turning it into a beautiful and useful poster.

To whom: children 5-6 years old
Platform: iOS


Math and numbers

The Math & Numbers app will help your child learn numbers and easily learn to count to 10. Toddler memorizes numbers and learns to use gestures.

Learning takes place in a playful way: the child counts the animals and independently displays the numbers on the screen of the device.

To whom: children 3-5 years old
Platform: Android
Lola's Math Train

"The Train" was created for older children. The application helps the kid to master elementary skills of addition, subtraction and solving puzzles. Bright graphics and cute animation of the characters in the game will not let the child lose interest in learning.

To whom: children 5-7 years old
Platform: iOS | Android
Forest families

"Forest Families" is a collection of educational games that teach a child to count, solve simple logic puzzles, develop memory and reinforce good habits (for example, wash hands before eating).

The main screen of the game shows a map of the forest where families of animals live: raccoons, nightingales, frogs and others. The child helps each of them by completing several fun tasks that follow one after another.

To whom: children 4-6 years old
Platform: iOS | Android


Entertain eniya
cartoons

In this application, you will find old Soviet cartoons that we all grew up with: "Well, wait a minute!", "The Bremen Town Musicians", "Prostokvashino" and many others. The function of connecting any YouTube channel, except for the preset set, has been implemented.

Unfortunately, the application does not have the ability to view cartoons offline, however, a 3G connection is enough for comfortable use of the program.

To whom: children from 4 years old
Platform: iOS
Who stole the moon

This app is one of the top 10 kids apps by Forbes. The interactive book will tell your kid the story of the English writer Helen Stratton-Wood about a boy who loved to look at the moon. Once Bertie did not see the moon in the sky and went to look for it.

The book is voiced by the theater and film actor Vladimir Vdovichenko, and is also beautifully illustrated.

To whom: children from 4 years old
Platform: iOS
Fairy tales of the magic forest

The basic version of the application includes the fairy tale "The Three Little Pigs", the rest ("The Wolf and the Seven Kids", "The Snowstorm", "Cinderella", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Three Bears", "Turnip" and "Teremok") are purchased separately. Before buying, evaluate the excellent quality of graphics and the work of voice actors.

In Fairy Forest Tales, children will find interactive scenes from fairy tales (like in panorama books) and entertaining mini-games. For completing tasks, points are earned that can be spent on purchasing new fairy tales.

To whom: children under 7 years old
Platform:

Today on the shelves of stores you can find a lot of books for preschool children. But some of them are not as interesting as we would like, while others are very expensive. We want to introduce you to the Little Stories app, which can not only be a great alternative to printed books, but also offer a new look at fairy tales so beloved by children.

We have already talked more than once or twice about applications for small users. For example, aboutKid's Mathor " Bedtime stories for kids". But today the review will be a little unusual, because we will deal with three applications from the same line.

Handwritten versions of alphabets, books for the development of counting and other similar materials are gradually becoming a thing of the past. We are increasingly relying on information technology and technology. Therefore, we no longer buy educational materials for children, but download them to smartphones and tablets. We will talk about one of these simple but effective applications today. It's called Kid's Math.

Learn the alphabet app - a fun alphabet for kids on Android

Every mother sees a little genius in her child, and the main task of parents is to help the baby acquire the necessary knowledge. And modern gadgets, in turn, make the learning process faster and more interesting. Today we will tell you about one application for Android that will allow your kid to learn the alphabet in the shortest possible time.

Child control - control the use of your smartphone by children

Quite often, parents (and not only) are faced with the fact that their little miracle (or maybe a younger brother or sister) asks them to give them a phone or tablet to play with. There is no crime in this, of course. But, in addition to the fact that a long pastime with the device can negatively affect the eyes and posture of a young and growing organism, a situation may also occur when a child, having become excited, does not really want to return your gadget to you. Taking away a child's favorite toy is an extremely inhumane decision. This is where an application that will take care of the health and psyche of the child can come to the rescue. Child Control app for Android allows you to set a timer, after which the application will “self-speak” to the child that the time is over and the phone “needs to rest”. Now, in the eyes of a child, you will not look like a sort of tyrant who takes away all the most precious things.

Tales app - interactive 3D fairy tales for Android

Surely each of us in childhood, my mother read various books. For modern mothers, in the age of high technology, there is only one question: “How to instill in your child a love of reading?”. The answer is quite simple and will not keep you waiting long. If your child does not like simple books, then show him interactive books with bright pictures, beautiful animation and built-in educational games that will not only entertain your child, but also educate him.

Alexandra Savina

Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives, and children's including. Many people already know how to perform the simplest actions on the phone even before they learn to speak. It is definitely not worth being afraid, but it is worth using it wisely. Here are nine apps for preschoolers that are not only entertaining, but also useful - for example, turning everyday tasks into a game and helping children get ready for school.

Lullaby for baby

As the name suggests, this app that plays lullabies will come in handy for parents of the youngest children. In it, you can adjust the noise level, above which the melody will play (for example, if the baby woke up and started crying), and turn on the night-light screensaver. The creators of the application advise to pre-activate airplane mode on the phone so that an accidental call does not wake the child, and also recommend not putting the smartphone in a crib.

Melodies fall into several categories: classical music, English lullabies, white noise and French nursery rhymes. Some of them are available for free, but in order to unlock the rest and disable ads, you will have to pay extra (from 75 to 229 rubles). In addition, every day one of the melodies can be received as a gift - for this you need to leave a review. You can also add your own lullabies to the application: record your voice or import melodies from your smartphone library. The only negative: the tunes are not played one after another as a playlist - you can only play the same song four times in a row.

LEGO DUPLO Food

In LEGO DUPLO Food, a child can play “adult” and manage a stand selling ice cream, muffins or sandwiches. To do this, you will need to open a kiosk, lay out products, collect several orders from the right ingredients, and then clean up the kitchen. The application has built-in protection against accidental downloads by children. There are other mini-games in the LEGO DUPLO series featuring animals, the circus and train control.

Goodnight

A beautiful paid application that will help parents put their child to bed. This is not a game, but rather an interactive bedtime story: the child needs to turn off the lights and put the animals to bed one by one - and then go to the side bed himself. The application is available in twelve languages, including Russian. The game has a sequel - " Good night, circus", And its developers own another popular application - Little Fox Music Box with children's songs in English, which the child can sing along to.

Sago Mini Workshop

"Sago Mini Workshop" will appeal to children from 2 to 4 years old. In the game, the child must help the animals complete various tasks: sew puppets for the puppet theater, make a robot costume, repair the swing, and much more. To do this, using the touchpad, you will need to saw, work with a wrench, cut paper with scissors, drill, sew and perform other actions. The developers of the game have several more applications - you can see them all on the Sago Sago website.

Kids Doodle

Kids Doodle is a handy drawing application. What distinguishes it from analogues is that you need to draw here on a colored background and paints with different effects - including neon. For creativity, different brushes, stamps are offered, and the color is chosen randomly every time you click on the screen (which, however, you may not like). Bonus Kids Doodle - you can create on images from the phone's library and on your photos, and the application offers to record how the drawing was created on video.

DubDom

"DubDom" is an educational application with beautiful illustrations from which children will learn about the animals that live in the forest. In the application, the child can learn how they live, what sounds they make and what the animals that the oak serves as a home eat. There are also several games here where you have to feed the animals; and the child can try on filters with animal masks. There are other applications on the account of the developers of "DubDom": an interactive collection "Tales inside" and an application based on children's poems by Daniil Kharms - both with eye-pleasing illustrations.

preschool education

Both the App Store and Google Play have a lot of great free educational games for kids. We advise you to pay attention to the application "Preschool": it is intended for children of four years and older and should help them prepare for school. In total, the application has 15 tasks and games, which are divided into several categories: in the first, the child learns letters and learns to write, in the second - to count, solve examples and print numbers with his finger, in the third he studies shapes and colors, in the fourth he collects puzzles and solves logical problems . For successful completion of tasks, the child receives medals. The game has a free demo, by which you can understand if you want to spend money on it.

ChoreMonster

A useful application that turns a child's household chores into a game. Through the app or website, parents create a list of chores that the child can do (for example, wash the dishes, walk the dog or set the table), decide how often the child should perform this or that task, and assign a reward for each of them - a certain number of points. When a child completes a task, he receives points for it - they can be accumulated to receive one of the prizes assigned by parents (for example, the right to hang out with friends longer or eat ice cream). The makers of ChoreMonster have also launched a standalone app, Mothershp, from which parents can assign tasks to their children, and Landra, a ChoreMonster counterpart for teenagers.

A serious minus of the application is that it is not translated into Russian, but parents can start their own assignments (for example, by typing them in Russian) and give notes to them. In addition, ChoreMonster is designed for children aged 6-8 - so it can be used for learning English as well.

Forestry

The Forestry game is designed for children from 2 to 5 years old. In it, the child gets acquainted with several animals living in the forest: a hare, an elk, a beaver, a wild boar, a bear, a hedgehog, a squirrel. The child must help each of the animals complete tasks - for example, pick berries, catch fish, build a dam. You can play only with a bear for free, and to unlock the rest of the animals, you will have to pay 149 rubles. At the same time, Forestry has protection against accidental purchases by children: in order to gain access to the store, you need to solve an example. In addition, the game has an autoplay mode - the child can simply watch it as a cartoon.

Today, almost every child from the first minutes of his life is faced with mobile gadgets running Android or Windows. Even "baby monitors" that respond to various troubles that a baby has are built on the basis of modern smartphones or tablets. Therefore, it is not surprising that a child, already at the age of one, shows an increased interest in various gadgets, sometimes preferring them to ordinary rattles or silicone baby dolls. That is why, for a more harmonious intellectual and proper development of the child, it is necessary, along with entertainment content, to choose the best educational applications for children that will be useful in learning new and interesting things.

Most developers of software platforms have virtual stores in their structures that sell software content. These are the App Store for iOS, Google Play for Android, and the Microsoft (Windows) Store for Windows. Moreover, each of them allocates a separate segment for placing the best applications designed for entertainment, education and proper development of children of different age categories. At the same time, the Google Play Internet service has a more flexible age gradation, where software products are grouped into categories up to 2,3,4,5,6 years and above.

Software types

All available children's educational applications can be divided into several categories. Moreover, this classification is rather conditional and some programs have been created and directed to solve several problems simultaneously. Basically, parents download for their baby on a tablet:

  • purely entertainment programs that allow you to divert the attention of a capricious child - games and media content;
  • developing game applications that contribute to the emergence and consolidation of certain skills in the baby;
  • educational programs that can be used independently or be a virtual addition to classical schooling;
  • training programs that properly develop the baby's reaction and ingenuity.

However, the most widespread among parents who bring up not a genius, but a comprehensively developed person, have received developing programs. Today, in the Google Play catalogs, you can find a lot of software content, including free educational, training and gaming applications that intensify the proper development of the child.

Parents themselves can choose and download children's programs for young children. A teenager will not need such help, since he knows better than his father and mother what he needs. Below is an overview of the top apps most downloaded from the Android Virtual Store. Whether they are useful or ineffective, good or senseless parents will be able to determine for themselves by watching the development of their child. And of course, the decision on how to learn English or the alphabet - using a paper textbook supplemented with phonograms or using modern teaching technologies, remains with the parents.

An overview of the different categories of learning apps for kids

If earlier the first alphabet was presented in the form of cubes, on the edges of which letters for children were applied, and the first easel was paper coloring, today these material educational accessories have been successfully replaced by software products. Below are the most useful children's apps, the popularity of which was estimated by user reviews and the number of downloads from the Google Play Internet resource.

The GoodSoftTech coloring book is designed for children over the age of three and serves not only to instill artistic skills in the baby, but can also be used to teach the baby the alphabet and counting. In addition to a variety of art pictures and images of objects, the student can decorate 9 numbers of various sizes and 24 letters of the alphabet. The functional advantages of this application include:

  • the presence of three artistic tools - a pen, a marker and a pencil, allowing you to draw lines of various thicknesses;
  • a virtual eraser will allow you not only to erase the contours of an object, but also to remove the fill color;
  • the ability to fill a closed contour, both drawn by the student himself, and taken from the library of standard objects;
  • a large number of stylized animal figures in the library develops abstract thinking and teaches the child geography and zoology;
  • saving the drawing at any stage of creation and coloring
  • grouping standard images in the library into categories: animals, school, numbers, holidays, household items.

Working with a coloring book downloaded from the Internet and installed on a tablet is not difficult, and the ease of use of the tools allows even the smallest artist to use them for drawing.

Math and Numbers for Toddlers

Math and Numbers for Toddlers Android application developed by the Russian company Whisper Arts has no age restrictions and can be used for preschool children. This math app is available on Google Play in trial (free) and full versions.The trial version includes three parts:

  • We learn numbers - where the child, looking at the number, must indicate the number of objects corresponding to it;
  • Circle the number - in which the baby should circle the number brought by the parents on the display;
  • We play - the category is designed to consolidate the acquired knowledge during simple games.

By paying 30 rubles, parents can download additional content that contains:

  • multilingual sound support;
  • the possibility of sound accompaniment - voice pronunciation of the depicted figure;
  • additional educational game applications "Find a Pair", "Count the Animals" and "Fingers".

The benefits of this training program include:

  • ease of switching Russian-English support;
  • the possibility of studying not only mathematics, but also zoology from images of animals;
  • implementation in the full version of the soundtrack.
  • the possibility of independent (without parents) consolidating the acquired knowledge during simple games.

ABC alphabet

"Alphabet ABC" is another educational program from the Russian developer Whisper Arts, specializing in the development of software for Android tablets, aimed at teaching and developing children. Of course, in order to fully learn the alphabet without the usual school primer. However, the virtual alphabet will be a great addition to the school curriculum, and will also allow a child who has reached the age of two to fully learn to read and master the basics of literacy at home.

The benefits of this learning app include:

  • adaptation of the program to work on a tablet with any display size, from a budget model with a six-inch screen to the coolest models with a diagonal of more than 10 inches;
  • wide age range of use - from the earliest age to 7 years;
  • separation of audio content not only by the phonetic feature of the pronunciation of sounds, but also by the grammatical name of the letters - for example, the letter "N" can be voiced in its direct pronunciation "N", or you can imagine its name - "EN";
  • accompanying the studied alphabetic material with entertaining graphic content, for example, a stylized letter “A” is displayed on the screen together with an image of a juicy, sliced ​​watermelon;

Learning shapes and shapes

The program "Learn Shapes and Shapes", created by Whisper Arts programmers, develops associative thinking in children. In the game content displayed on the tablet screen, the child is looking for analogies, similarities and differences. Despite the fact that the application is designed for children after three years, it is quite possible to use it when teaching a baby at an earlier age.

Just like Math and Numbers, the free app Learn Shapes and Shapes has a paid add-on that allows you to:

  • correctly adjust the pronunciation of the names of the forms displayed on the screen;
  • use several additional educational games;
  • study the English names of the figures displayed on the screen.

The Russian company Lingualeo LLC develops the best software products for learning a foreign language and developing speech in it. Especially for children, the English with LinguaLeo application is offered. The program is designed for a wide age range and its basic package can be downloaded for free. Depending on the level of preparation, parents can download trial versions of LinguaLeo for any age category for their child. The program will test the knowledge of the baby and offer the best training program.

Conclusion

Being engaged in interactive education of children using the best educational applications and technical means on the Android platform, parents should remember that all virtual learning should be considered as an addition to the school course, in no case replacing it.

A year ago, I complained to my friend that there were too few good kids apps on the iPad. Now there are so many of these applications that parents have to choose the best ones for a long time. We decided to compile a convenient catalog of children's programs, reviews of which are already on our website in the iPad for children section.

For the convenience of parents, we have tried to group games and educational programs by age. If some application is not in its group - please write about it in the comments and we will fix it. :)

Catalog updated 01/03/2014

Apps on the iPad for children under 3 years old:

Children from 10-12 years old can already be advised puzzle games, arcades, puzzles. There are so many good games that it's impossible to list them all here. Take a look at our catalog of the best games on the iPad, for sure, you will pick up something there. Also, soon I plan to release a catalog of games for girls from 10-12 years old.

Children's applications for creativity

With children of any age, you can engage on the iPad, creating performances in the puppet theater or books in a special application. Here we have collected the most interesting of these applications:

Foldify - patterns for gluing paper figures.

Puppet Pals HD - puppet theater in your iPad. You can add your characters and make a performance with them. The scene can be recorded on video.

My Story – Book Maker for Kids is an application for creating books. You can draw or add photos to pages, voice each of them and import them into the reader.

KidsCraft - Children's Art Workshop - a bright colorful application with detailed workshops for children's creativity. Crafts are very interesting and quite simple (just right for little kids).

Interactive books (relevant for kids from 1 year old and older):

  • Smart Tales is one of the best fairy tale apps for iPad. Very instructive tales and colorful design. Recommended for children of any age.
  • Russian Fairy Tales Selected - good Russian fairy tales without violence and cruelty.
  • Tsar Saltan is a beautifully illustrated fairy tale by Pushkin.
  • Thumbelina - very unusual illustrations and musical arrangement. This book will appeal to both children and parents.