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MASH

Remember playing MASH (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House) as a kid to find out your future spouse, home and job? Now you can play it on your iPhone, iPod Touch or your brand-spanking new iPad. MASH ($1) is a digital version of the pen and paper fortune telling game. It has been featured by [More]

ABC Zoo

Do your kids love your iPhone as much as you do? Now you can put something on it just for them. ABC Zoo ($5) is an educational iPhone and iPod touch application for kids. This useful and funny app will keep your child busy on a trip – or wherever you are – while teaching the [More]

Elmo’s Monster Maker

Design a whole parade of new friends for Elmo with Elmo’s Monster Maker ($4) for the iPhone. Just select a featureless monster body, and tap its hat, eyes, and nose as many times as you want to change its features. Once you’re happy with your monster, you can make him dance, [More]

iPhone LEGO App

You’ve built cities, heavy machinery, and futuristic battlecraft from those busy little blocks, and now LEGOs will build you. For free! The iPhone LEGO App (free!) lets you snap a pic of yourself or your kids and then LEGO-izes it, turning your face into a rainbow of tiny blocks. [More]

Toy Kit iPhone App

A bunch of circles, squares, and lines don’t look like much on their own, but when kids put them together in the Toy Kit iPhone App ($1), a firetruck, helicopter, or police car magically takes shape from the chaos. Once assembled, the vehicle animates and sounds its siren. When [More]

Animal Sounds for iPhone

Going on the idea that little kids can’t possibly be upset while elephants are trumpeting, chickens squawking, or dogs barking, Animal Sounds for iPhone ($2) gives you animals from the zoo, farm, and house pets, all in one app. Full screen, high res images of each animal engage your [More]

iMoo

Now your iPhone can moo, can you? That little cow-in-a-can that we couldn’t stop turning over and over as kids has been given a new life in iMoo ($1), a simple app that does an amazing job recreating the charm and fascination of the classic toy. Flip the iPhone upside down and then [More]

Fairy Trails

With Fairy Trails ($1) your iPhone reveals a magical world inhabited by shimmering fairies that flit past too swiftly for the human eye to see. Give your iPhone a shake and it becomes a special fairy detector, allowing kids to capture these elusive creatures as they appear superimposed [More]

Pickin’ Time

Watch kids get excited about vegetables with Pickin’ Time ($2), available on iTunes. A fast-paced game with a deceptively simple premise, it’s easy enough for little kids to get the idea, but as the levels progress, so does the challenge, keeping even adults coming back for another [More]

Hallowcarver

Master the art of pumkin carving without getting stringy guts all over your hands with Hallowcarver ($1) for the iPhone. Pick a spooky setting and a pumpkin shape, then go to work cutting your way to the jack-o’-lantern of your dreams. When you’re done, show off your carving through [More]

Zoo Sounds

Every parent knows that little kids can go from zero to tantrum faster than you can say, “no cookie”. Zoo Sounds ($1) is part of the Tantrum Apps collection for the iPhone. With the goal of heading off a meltdown before it starts, Zoo Sounds is the perfect distraction any time [More]

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