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Ultimate list of FREE Educational Apps for Kids - Lost And Loving It
Ultimate list of FREE
 Educational Apps for Kids
 The essential resource for parents
Free Apps for Children aged 5-8

Busy Things                             Shutterbugs Wiggle and                 Kaleidoscope Drawing
(www.busythings.co.uk)                  Stomp                                  Pad (itunes.apple.com/au/app/k
                                        (https://ssec.si.edu/shutterbugs-      aleidoscope-drawing-pad)
                                        wiggle-and-stomp)                      The Kaleidoscope Drawing Pad is
Busy Things is a world of fun for
                                        Shutterbug is a free educational       a gorgeous kaleidoscope with a
children aged 3 - 11 years. With
                                        app suitable for children aged 4 to    cute little drawing pad. You and
over 150 activities to discover,
                                        7. It teaches students how to          your kids can create an incredibly
take your pick between quick-fire
                                        describe movement and motion           beautiful kaleidoscope painting. All
quizzes about time, how the solar
                                        while visiting rare animals at the     you need is a few extra strokes!
system works and even fractions!
                                        Smithsonian National Zoological
                                        Park.                                  Mandala

Out and About                           Literacy Planet
(qed.qld.gov.au/about-us/det-                                                  Coloring (itunes.apple.com/au/
                                        (app.literacyplanet.com)               app/mandala-coloring-pages-
apps/out-and-about)                     Whether for early reading
Out and About is a "sight words"                                               games)
                                        skills or advanced grammar,            Mandala Coloring Pages is a
learning app that can help your         LiteracyPlanet will provide your
kids learn how works look like.                                                gorgeous colouring book style app
                                        child with a learning                  for all ages. Kids and adults alike
Learning words can be simpler           adventure. Literacy Planet is
and more colourful with this App!                                              would enjoy this colourful art. It’s
                                        there to help them develop             got a ton of designs to colour!
                                        excellent English literacy skills
                                        with fun activities!

                                        Go Noodle (gonoodle.com)               Teach your Monster to Read
Telling Time Trial Version
                                        GoNoodle gets over 12 million          (teachyourmonstertoread.com)
(itunes.apple.com/au/app/interac
                                        kids moving to be their strongest,     Teach Your Monster to Read is a
tive-telling-time/)
                                        bravest, silliest, smartest, bestest   fun and interactive game that
Interactive Telling Time is great for
                                        selves. They teach not only stuff      plays more like your traditional
kids from ages 3 to 12. You can
                                        like vocab and maths, they also        gaming apps than your average
set the time, teach the concept of
                                        help teach mindfulness and             free educational apps. Best of all,
hours and minutes and even day
                                        purposeful movement.                   the computer version is free!
and night time!

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Scratch Jr                                                      10 Monkeys
(scratchjr.org)                                                 (10monkeys.com/au/)
Coding is the new literacy! With ScratchJr,                     10Monkeys is there to teach children aged
young children (ages 5-7) are taught to                         4-10 years traditional maths with furry
create interactive stories and games, even                      friends as their guide. There's a different 3D
code with objects! Learn to solve problems,                     monkey for every job, so there's a lot to
design projects, and express themselves                         learn as well!
creatively on the computer.

Free Educational Apps for Kids Aged 8-11

ABC Education
(education.abc.net.au/home)             Quick Maths                            Word Chum -Trial
ABC ME's Education broadcasts           (getshinythings.com/quickmath)         (peoplefun.com/word-chums/)
educational TV programs                 Free learning apps can't be easier     Word chum helps kids expand
weekdays from 10.00am –                 than this. Quick Maths helps           their vocabulary by letting them
12.00pm during the school term          children with their arithmetic sense   discover different letter
too! Missed it live, watch it on        with a quiz type maths app. No         combinations. Tap any word to
catch up TV from this handy App!        need to choose between a choice        see its definitions. It's an easy,
                                        of numbers! All you need to do is      smart educational app.
                                        doodle the number.

                                                                               Smithsonian BumperDucks
Smithsonian Showbiz Safari              Scratch (scratch.mit.edu/parents/)     (ssec.si.edu/bumperducks)
(ssec.si.edu/showbiz-safari)            Scratch is an interactive              BumperDucks is an educational
Showbiz Safari is an educational        programming educational app            physical science game that
life science app that teaches kids      where 7 and up kids learn to write     teaches what happens when two
about various animals, their            in a programming language by           things collide! Its interactive
habitats and various plants in a        creating stories, games and            physics engine is awesome.
cheesy manner. In the game, you         animations. It offers fuller           Physics is hard to teach even to
help a walrus director find the right   interactivity for the older kids, so   older children, but seeing it
actors by identifying the who's who     they're not getting exactly the        happen with your own eyes?
amongst the animals.                    same scenarios.                        That's easy.

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Disaster Detector                    Rainforest Coding                     Drawing Desk – Trial
(ssec.si.edu/disaster-detector)      (www.rainforestcoding.co.uk/rt        (itunes.apple.com/au/app/dra
We love ingenious educational        cr/)                                  wing-desk-draw-paint-art/)
apps. Disaster Detector is exactly   Scratch is a building block to        Drawing Desk is a drawing app
what we love. This Smithsonian       learning more advanced code.          that acts as a canvas for various
app teaches players how to           Rainforest Coding also helps          styles of drawing. If you want rich
analyse and interpret data on        teach more advanced coding            watercolor style palettes, cutesy
natural hazards. It's                techniques such as define blocks,     crayon-style colouring for little kids
instrumentation, correlation and     conditional statements and            or even photo-art, it's there for
data gathering all packed in one     variables.                            you.
cool free app.

Morphy                               SkyView Lite
(ssec.si.edu/morphy)                 (itunes.apple.com/au/app/skyvie       Grid Club
Morphy lets you roleplay as an       w-lite)                               (gridclub.com)
alien stuck on Earth. You survive    Skyview Lite is an easy to use        The Grid Club website has 500+
by trying to understand how the      constellation app that helps kids     curriculum games and activities
animals around you live and          learn and find constellations.        ideal for school and home. The
survive. Meet creatures and          Skyview shows an overview of          sheer amount of short games is
understand why their body is like    popular constellations, heavenly      enormous, and the art style is
that!                                bodies and even get notifications     reminiscent of classic
                                     of stargazing events.                 Nickelodeon.

Aquation                                                                   YouTube Kids
(ssec.si.edu/aquation)               Voyage to Van Diemens Land
                                     (voyage.anmm.gov.au/)                 (youtube.com/yt/kids/)
Aquation is a simple economics
                                     If you like free learning apps in     Youtube Kids is a fully family-
app that teaches kids the value of
                                     history, the Voyage is what you       friendly, child-friendly video
resources to a country's survival
                                     want. It's an interactive point and   sharing space for kids. Your kids
and how they can make a
                                     click adventure game that             can surf all they want without you
difference. Control where the
                                     simulates the first voyages to        having to worry which side of
water flows and strategise how to
                                     Tasmania and how they worked          Youtube they veer to.
go about leaders problems
                                     their way towards the new lands!

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 Educational Apps for Kids
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Free Online Resources for Children 11-13 years and older

                                        Garage Band
Google Earth                                                                    Duolingo
                                        (itunes.apple.com/au/app/gar
(google.com/earth)                                                              (duolingo.com)
                                        ageband)
Earth is one of the best projects       We recommend getting Garage             Duolingo is an interactive
that Google has ever done,              Band with your Apple device. It         language learning app where you
mapping out as much of the              turns your ordinary Apple device        can self-teach yourself any
known world. Combine it with            into a full-fledged recording studio,   language you want. Learn Italian,
Google Maps and Google Street           with digital instruments to boot!       French, Japanese or even brush
View and see different cultures as                                              up on your English!
if you were there!

Mango                                                         Khan Academy
(mangolanguages.com)                                          (khanacademy.org)
Mango approaches the entire learning course                   Khan Academy is the ultimate academic resource in
different from Duolingo. While Duolingo focuses on            the world and nothing comes close. They simplify
ease of learning and interactivity so that the reader         complex ideas into easy to understand info that you
never gets bored, Mango focuses on real-world                 can consume at your own pace.
uses and nuance.

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Free Online Courses for Kids 13 Years and Over

Udemy                                    Alison                                    Open2Study
(udemy.com)                              (alison.com)                              (open2study.com)
Udemy lets you find thousands of         If Udemy is for life skills, Alison is
different tutorials for different life   for academic skills. Alison is one        Open2Study lets you learn at your
skills that they can use in the real     of the biggest free online                own pace. Once you've learned
world. Every life skill that you think   education sites in the world,             enough and want your own
you might need, you can learn            backed by big wigs like MIT,              degree, you can move forward
from Udemy.                              Stanford and Microsoft.                   with different Aussie open
                                                                                   universities to choose from!

Coursera                                                         Studiosity
(coursera.org)                                                   (studiosity.com/pricing)
Coursera is much like Open2Study, but it focuses                 Studiosity is a great place to help your young adults
more on the online degree learning. Wherever you                 get proper feedback from course experts in different
are in the world, Coursera can get you degrees from              subjects, even in writing! A life hack we like to offer
most major universities in the USA.                              is their free practice tests and quizzes

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