A Guide to Gaming Apps for Kids: Exploring Fun and Educational Options

When it comes to gaming apps for kids, parents want to ensure that they are both fun and educational. There are many options available, ranging from simple puzzle games to complex adventure games. In this article, we will explore some of the most popular gaming apps for kids, including My Fairy Pony Ponies, Dragon Theme App, Dino Digger, and Balloon Maker.

My Fairy Pony Ponies is a delightful app that allows children to customize and care for their own ponies. With a wide range of colors, hair styles, and accessories to choose from, kids can create their perfect pony companion. The app also features a virtual forest where ponies can roam and interact with each other. Children can feed and play with the ponies, and even find treasure chests filled with fun prizes.

One of the most exciting aspects of My Fairy Pony Ponies is its social aspect. Kids can collect multiple ponies and visit them in the virtual forest. The app also features a messaging system, allowing children to talk and interact with their friends and other players. With its colorful graphics and engaging gameplay, My Fairy Pony Ponies is an instant hit with little girls.

On the other hand, Dragon Theme App offers a similar experience for boys who love dragons. Kids can customize their own dragon, choosing from a range of colors, horns, and fire styles. The app features a virtual forest where dragons can roam and interact with each other, complete with treasure chests filled with new customization items. Children can feed and play with the dragons, and even bring them to life using interactive bones.

Another popular gaming app for kids is Dino Digger. This app allows children to dig up dinosaur bones and assemble them into their favorite prehistoric creatures. With its simple yet addictive gameplay, kids can spend hours digging and discovering new dinosaurs. The app also features a fun and educational element, teaching children about different types of dinosaurs and their characteristics.

In addition to these apps, there's also Balloon Maker. It's a simple but highly engaging game that lets kids create and pop balloons. With the longer you hold it, the bigger the balloon will be. They can also interact with other kids while playing this app as they bounce off each other. Furthermore, the game has been popular among children on the autism spectrum due to its high level of visual tracking capabilities.

Lastly, there's also My Most Popular App for Little Girls, which is another fun and interactive game that lets kids collect coins or buy them in-app if needed. This game allows players to explore a pony forest where multiple ponies wander around, can be found by scrolling around the screen or tapping on specific points to jump between them. Each pony has unique characteristics, with some having four wings while others have more fire-like features.

Another interesting feature of this app is its treasure chest system which contains various prizes like carrots, new tails for the dragons and so much more.

All these apps offer a unique gaming experience that is both fun and educational for kids. From creating and customizing ponies to digging up dinosaur bones, there's something for every child's interests and age group. Whether you're looking for an app to play with your little girl or boy, or just want to introduce them to the world of gaming, these apps are definitely worth exploring.

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coins during the game to buy new weapons upgrade existing weapons by seeking missiles buy new shields or revive kits what's the premise of the game so the the back story is actually pretty simple robots invaded annihilated most of our most of uh your race and now you are reclaiming your solar system so if i use a seeker missile on this guy it'll blow them up in one shot and those are available in limited supply yeah you can use these coins that you're collecting in the game to purchase seeker missiles i'm gonna use another one here you don't have to have perfect game they'll go right to the enemy that you are aiming that you're kind of aiming there killed that boss yeah so i'll go over here to the shop and uh i already own this ray gun but i want to upgrade it so i can upgrade it a couple of times until it's at its full power and this photon spread i don't own that yet so i'm gonna buy it for 250 i have enough coins to buy that guy so and i'm gonna upgrade it 75 points to upgrade that one i want a couple more missiles so i'll buy that one can you upgrade your arm or anything like that you can so here's a shield and the different shields have different characteristics so this one is a shield that protects you twice or it gives you twice the protection against crashing into things this shield gives you twice protection against crashing and against enemy fire and the plasma shield four times against crashing two times against enemy fire gives you maximum protection how many levels are in the game there's eight levels and each level has a different theme has different environments many of them have different different enemies and have different behaviors and every boss and every level is unique and is this a paid game or a free to play this is free to play on ios and you can you can play the whole thing for free you can collect coins or you can uh buy coins in-app if you want to do a shortcut and upgrade your weapons even faster my most popular app for little girls is this one right here called my fairy pony ponies that wander around the forest and you can tap on them and uh customize them i'm gonna make this one pink i think i'll give this one purple hair how about a matching purple tail give her some unicorn horns that one looks good different eyelashes high colors every little every pink pony needs pretty pink shoes right i have two daughters here's some little white wings tap on her and she'll she'll talk to you interact with you you can explore the pony forest and find some other ponies there's another one and another fun aspect of this game is finding treasure chests you find a treasure chest there's a carrot so if i go to this pony right here i can feed it to her and she's ever so grateful of course and there's four ponies that wander around the forest you can find them by scrolling around as you look for ponies or treasure chests or jump from pony to pony with this pony button right here not all little boys like ponies not all little girls like dragons so i figured i'd make a game that was very similar but dragon theme so say my same concept where you can customize a dragon give this dragon a yellow head let's give this dragon some some gray horns to match his wings you can change all these different aspects give him some blue spikes and a different fire red fire that looks good okay so he'll wander around the forest you can find treasure chests that have new customization items there's a new tail for the dragons it's a green tail with a spade on it so if i come over here there's the new tail i just found the light green wouldn't be the spade tap on him he'll interact with you he'll fly and talk yeah there's four dragons that wander the wander the dragon forest there we go this one there's a marshmallow in that treasure chest right there so we'll find a dragon this guy let's give him a marshmallow they prefer to eat them roasted that's the good stuff that's right here's another favorite with little kids called dino digger you mean why little kid doesn't love dinosaurs and what's more fun than digging up dinosaur modes right so i do that all the time that's right when i was in third grade i seriously wanted to be a paleontologist well now you can be mixing dinosaur bones this one assembles up into a stegosaurus and it'll tell you the name of the dinosaur and the bones are interactive you can you can tap on them and they'll do different things you can break it watch the dinosaur rebuild turn it around and then you can even bring your dinosaur to life so here's the life stegosaurus tap on his head tap on his tail and swing it around you can look around the island here you can even shake to create an earthquake then so here's balloon maker it's a very simple app works very well with very little kids because you can't go wrong no matter what you do you're either creating balloons or your popping balloons kids who play with ipads like this they're going to be happy they're not going to get frustrated with something not doing what they what they expect so the longer you hold it the bigger the balloon you can inflate it to be really big and they interact with each other they'll bounce off of each other anyway you hold it they'll always float up you can shake it to turn from day to night from night to day this has been a quite attractive a lot of traction in the autistic community i've had several special education teachers contact me to tell me that a child they work with visually tracks something for the first time while using this app so that's very rewarding that's balloon cool thanks a lot troy youhi this is paul acevedo with imore we're here at apps world in san francisco i'm troy with tech tap and i'm going to be showcasing my most downloaded game right now called solar warfare all right this is the ios version solar warfare runs on ipad ipod touch iphone all the way back to the ford no ipod shuffle support not yet i'm working on it okay we'll just start with the first level here okay so this game the fly around space shooter game with tilt controls hold down anywhere on this side to hover which is a different feature from a lot of space shooters and uh hold down anywhere on this side to rapid fire so there's some guys shooting at me put a lot of time and effort into making sure that this was a smooth running game it has a very high frame rate it's very smooth and it's really easy to get into the controls are very responsive yet uh yet intuitive it's very easy to learn to pick up and play and at the same time very immersive you can collect coins during the game to buy new weapons upgrade existing weapons by seeking missiles buy new shields or revive kits what's the premise of the game so the the back story is actually pretty simple robots invaded annihilated most of our most of uh your race and now you are reclaiming your solar system so if i use a seeker missile on this guy it'll blow them up in one shot and those are available in limited supply yeah you can use these coins that you're collecting in the game to purchase seeker missiles i'm gonna use another one here you don't have to have perfect game they'll go right to the enemy that you are aiming that you're kind of aiming there killed that boss yeah so i'll go over here to the shop and uh i already own this ray gun but i want to upgrade it so i can upgrade it a couple of times until it's at its full power and this photon spread i don't own that yet so i'm gonna buy it for 250 i have enough coins to buy that guy so and i'm gonna upgrade it 75 points to upgrade that one i want a couple more missiles so i'll buy that one can you upgrade your arm or anything like that you can so here's a shield and the different shields have different characteristics so this one is a shield that protects you twice or it gives you twice the protection against crashing into things this shield gives you twice protection against crashing and against enemy fire and the plasma shield four times against crashing two times against enemy fire gives you maximum protection how many levels are in the game there's eight levels and each level has a different theme has different environments many of them have different different enemies and have different behaviors and every boss and every level is unique and is this a paid game or a free to play this is free to play on ios and you can you can play the whole thing for free you can collect coins or you can uh buy coins in-app if you want to do a shortcut and upgrade your weapons even faster my most popular app for little girls is this one right here called my fairy pony ponies that wander around the forest and you can tap on them and uh customize them i'm gonna make this one pink i think i'll give this one purple hair how about a matching purple tail give her some unicorn horns that one looks good different eyelashes high colors every little every pink pony needs pretty pink shoes right i have two daughters here's some little white wings tap on her and she'll she'll talk to you interact with you you can explore the pony forest and find some other ponies there's another one and another fun aspect of this game is finding treasure chests you find a treasure chest there's a carrot so if i go to this pony right here i can feed it to her and she's ever so grateful of course and there's four ponies that wander around the forest you can find them by scrolling around as you look for ponies or treasure chests or jump from pony to pony with this pony button right here not all little boys like ponies not all little girls like dragons so i figured i'd make a game that was very similar but dragon theme so say my same concept where you can customize a dragon give this dragon a yellow head let's give this dragon some some gray horns to match his wings you can change all these different aspects give him some blue spikes and a different fire red fire that looks good okay so he'll wander around the forest you can find treasure chests that have new customization items there's a new tail for the dragons it's a green tail with a spade on it so if i come over here there's the new tail i just found the light green wouldn't be the spade tap on him he'll interact with you he'll fly and talk yeah there's four dragons that wander the wander the dragon forest there we go this one there's a marshmallow in that treasure chest right there so we'll find a dragon this guy let's give him a marshmallow they prefer to eat them roasted that's the good stuff that's right here's another favorite with little kids called dino digger you mean why little kid doesn't love dinosaurs and what's more fun than digging up dinosaur modes right so i do that all the time that's right when i was in third grade i seriously wanted to be a paleontologist well now you can be mixing dinosaur bones this one assembles up into a stegosaurus and it'll tell you the name of the dinosaur and the bones are interactive you can you can tap on them and they'll do different things you can break it watch the dinosaur rebuild turn it around and then you can even bring your dinosaur to life so here's the life stegosaurus tap on his head tap on his tail and swing it around you can look around the island here you can even shake to create an earthquake then so here's balloon maker it's a very simple app works very well with very little kids because you can't go wrong no matter what you do you're either creating balloons or your popping balloons kids who play with ipads like this they're going to be happy they're not going to get frustrated with something not doing what they what they expect so the longer you hold it the bigger the balloon you can inflate it to be really big and they interact with each other they'll bounce off of each other anyway you hold it they'll always float up you can shake it to turn from day to night from night to day this has been a quite attractive a lot of traction in the autistic community i've had several special education teachers contact me to tell me that a child they work with visually tracks something for the first time while using this app so that's very rewarding that's balloon cool thanks a lot troy you\n"