Little Writer is the perfect iPad app for toddlers to learn the basics of writing while practicing number, letter, and shape recognition. The beautifully designed, uncomplicated, and FREE app appeals to both young children and their parents.

Kids will love the backgrounds, sounds, and objects (tractors, crabs, whales, giraffes) that move with their fingers as they trace. Parents will appreciate the strong educational aspect and have fun adding new items for their children to practice writing. This feature can be very useful: add family members, pets, and other familiar people and places to the app’s database!

To visit Little Writer on iTunes, click here.

When we came across this free app for children ages 2-6, we fell in love with it immediately.

Art Maker reminds us of the sticker books we had as children.  We both loved decorating scenes with sparkly, fuzzy, and scratch-n-sniff stickers!  This app provides the same feel but with lots of modern updates.

To begin your creation with Art Maker, choose from 7 backgrounds or use a picture of your own.  Each background has lots of themed “stickers” to drag and drop into the scenes.

Grown-ups will appreciate the multi-dimensional, creative options.  The “stickers” are eye-catching, textured, and whimsical.  Items include animals made of cloth, buttons, objects made of tin foil, toilet paper rolls, and more!

Also, several items from each collection are puzzles to add a challenge for older kids.

Children can resize, rotate, and move the “stickers” until they’re positioned wherever they want them.  Once the picture is complete, save a copy to your photo roll to share with others.  You can also create stories with your images, add audio, and animate the objects to make short movies with your pictures!

Bottom line:  This app is lots of fun, easy to use, and creates high quality images that you and your children will love.  Best of all, it’s free for a limited time!

To visit Art Maker on iTunes, click here.

Here are some pictures we made with Art Maker (click to expand):