Favorite FREE Educational iPad Apps for Toddlers & Preschoolers | The Mom Psychologist

0:00 so finding engaging and educational apps for your toddler or preschooler can be challenging especially when you're on the hunt for free ones well look no further because in today's video i'm gonna be sharing my favorite free apps as a mom of two as well as a child and family psychologist so let's dive in hi hello and welcome back to my channel if you are new here i am dr jasmine around here we talk about all things

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0:54 mompsychologist.com forward slash workshop to watch it after this video all right let's dive in all right before we dive into my favorite apps i just want to share uh years later which my child still has the same case um same with screen protector these are great quality and i just don't have to worry about her accidentally breaking her ipad when she flings it across the room so i'll definitely leave all the links to this case as well as screen protector as

1:21 well as her headphones these are super cute and made just for her ears and they come in a bunch of different colors and prints so i'll be sure to leave all the links down in the description below so the first app i have for you guys is called elmo loves one two threes and it is the light version so it's 100 free you can upgrade so it starts by picking the number and then you can trace the number

1:45 [Music] and then it goes into various different activities around the number one so there's a game so you gotta find the penguin and drag the penguin over and then they tap on the picture again it's with the letter one and then they can use the crayons to color it so a lot of fun there with the free version you only get one two and three but it's a nice

2:16 introduction especially for the young toddlers on math and counting and then also if you click on this there's other games that they can play around counting so drag one karate robe to each monster so this one is perfect for the little ones as well so there's so many different um areas for them to choose from like hidden animals choose your vehicle so they get to choose their vehicle

2:47 and then they ride around and find the animals oh there's somebody it's a horse puppy stickers i love camping so they can kind of pick different stickers out and put them places where is puppy's nose hi there let's play where's puppy's nose so this one's about body parts find puppy's ears ears like i said there's a lot more

3:19 different options for them to choose from 100 free the next one is called joy doodle and this one is super fun it's very open-ended it's just literally a drawing pad but the fun part about this is that every time you pick up your your finger it changes colors as you can see so that's fun for the little ones my girls absolutely love this app it's super simple that's all it is it's just doodling um but they love it so the next app is pbs

3:45 kids um i think we all know about this but just in case you didn't know pbs uh kids has free games and so for this app they can just choose from array of games there's so many different choices let's uh play with the cat in the hat so there's one called sort magogo sorta magogo so they've got to collect all the objects that are clothing so they've got to go around and look for all of the clothing oops that was this

4:16 shoe so again a bunch of different uh games based on the different tv shows so this app is a lot of fun highly recommend and this one is pbs kids games the next app i want to show you guys is called star fall abcs so these over here these are all the letters and if your little one clicks on these it'll go through each letter in the sounds and then on this side they have additional games and things

4:43 so for example this one is called geometry and measurements choose a pathway so each triangle to get through the maze so they have to find those triangles to get through the maze yay he made it fabulous fabulous and then if they click the vowels at the bottom for example e

5:15 e and the elephant likes red eggs now i want to hear you sing along with me it encourages participation which is a major plus red eggs so that was down here at the bottom it goes through all the different vowels a e i o u so again that one was called starfall abc the next one i want to share with you guys is the hungry caterpillar play school it's super super cute i couldn't not share this app with

5:46 you unfortunately it's there's the games and things are limited because they are pushing you to to join their subscription right off the bat it's going to prompt you to log in or make an account but you can click the explore the app version or the tab explore the app and it'll let you just explore without actually having to sign up but this one is super cute i love the graphics on it and i love this one

6:12 called puzzles and so basically it it prompts them to basically build the puzzle from the pieces which is super fun my girls are into puzzles and so this is a fun way to bring puzzles to the screen so this is the gardening one so they can water their plants and make a garden for the hungry caterpillar so you basically go around and water the different plants and then eventually it'll sprout into a fruit which is super fun and super cute

6:40 oh there's something then there's the the strawberry now the hungry caterpillar can eat it okay let's go to the math one one this is the number one color the number any way you like all right next one i have for you guys is con kids we absolutely love this app animals are living creatures that can breathe and move

7:13 drag all the animals to the cat dog drag all the animals to the cat these are vehicles that are used to transport educating them on different things and also sorting the animals now they've gotta sort them and then there's so many different things for them to do we'll click on the dominoes this jar has the least number of marbles and this one has the greatest number of

7:45 marbles least to greatest tap the jars in order from least to greatest number of marbles put the letters in the letterbox and put the words in the word so again another sorting one but this one of course is with letters and words this one i love it's about emotions which ice cream scoop is on the top which ice cream scoop is on the top which ice cream scoop is on the bottom

8:16 great job so it's mixing in a video with also some questions about comprehension so many different kinds to try does she look happy so it's a great way to keep the kids engaged make sure they're listening paying attention and actually comprehending what they are exposed to so as you can see there is so much to do in this app it's 100 free and it is so educational and engaging so i 100

8:49 recommend khan academy now khan academy also makes other apps that i wanted to share with you that are also a hundred percent free the first one i want to share is called fish fish school i think it's called fish school to fish school yeah fish school kind of super cute it's about math counting letters colors and shapes colors touching fish and watch what have blue

9:21 differences find the fish that looks different i like this one so this one is called differences so they have to find the fish that looks different oh this one excellent matching and there's matching which is super fun so they have to go around and find the matching oh i found it yay so again that one was fish school the other free one by khan academy is called moose math this one is super cute my girls love this one

9:51 so they have to make moose juice okay so they have to make lemonade different recipes based on this right here so it says five drink or whatever that is so they have to add it into their blender so there's five and then they need five lemons and then when they're done they click that button and makes it it's delicious and then they get to pick their cup let's pretend they didn't get the right

10:21 proportions right they didn't make it right let's say they put one see and it has them count all the way up to really high numbers like 15 and then let's say they didn't add the right proportion [Music] it turns out i don't want to drink that let's try again so then it prompts them to try again so really good fun way to practice their counting okay so they have to count one two three four five six seven eight nine ten one

10:50 two three four five six seven eight nine ten did i do that right now match the number and the color okay so now they've got to match the number in the color so that one was moose math we love that one another one is called park math again another free app from khan academy [Music]

11:21 it's a really good way to expose them to word of the problems so if one duck climbs up how many will be at the top of the slide so four plus one is five and here's a pattern the blue orange blue orange blue now they've gotta sort the dogs from smallest to largest [Music]

11:56 really good app really good just very easy simple but powerful concepts that they're learning the next one i've got for you is called lego duplo train this one is very fun because they have to go around with their train and do different things and then they move the train around [Music] one right here the activities then they can kind of choose

12:27 which one they want to do so they've got to figure out where the the birdie went i think he's under that one yep the next one i have for you guys is called dentist this one is super cute especially if your little ones are about to have a dentist visit or this is something that they're scared of this app is great so you basically pick a character so it gets them used to the different tools that the dentist uses as

12:59 well as the different sounds that these tools make which can be a little daunting so first you've got to go around and so it tells you what tool you need to use now we've got to brush [Music] so they have to go around and pick the different tool that they need and then go around to each tooth and do it and clean it now you need to pick the right tooth you got to put the tooths in and they're

13:25 different shapes it's like a puzzle see what i'm saying about the sounds [Applause] there he goes he's done in the dennis seat that was quite the dennis visit [Music] and then you can go through and pick another character and go through the same thing but with different drills and different tools and stuff so the next one i want to share is called go noodle

13:56 so this one is a super fun app it's all about dancing and getting your child involved in different like movements get up and dance with us however you'd like you can march or just groove a little in your chair just move to the music however you want just playing out the different emotions today well i wanted to play video games before school and my dad said no sounds like you might be feeling kind of angry that's it i'm angry

14:27 in spanish when we are angry we say es so what do you do and through the nose and out through your mouth so really good education on emotions particularly anger normalizing the feeling but what can come out of it uh not making good choices if we don't learn healthy ways to cope and then it walks them through a different coping skill and it also intermingles some

14:59 spanish which i love this is an ad so unfortunately because it is free it does come with some ads think of a place where you know that there is a little piece a little calm your body may not always be able to go to that place but your mind can go there exactly some guided imagine that meditation there's another one called if you're stressed are an amazing way to calm down

15:30 [Music] so fun songs but also mixes in a bunch of education on whatever it is they're talking about so yeah i love this app this one is again called go noodle so let me know down in the comments what your kids favorite app is at the moment bonus points if it's free and also don't forget about my free discipline workshop how to get your child to listen to you without yelling for tips on better connection and better

16:03 cooperation just go to thempsychologist.com forward slash workshop to watch the on-demand training that's it for this video i'll see you in the next one bye