Another Halloween is upon us and with it comes lots of candy, lots of ghouls, and many new apps for our iDevices! AppTudes has put together the latest and greatest in a special holiday collection of the best apps for children to celebrate Halloween with. Check out the great selection below: there are singing monsters, learning sight words, animated puzzles, and much more for the little ones to enjoy this fun time of year.
Singing Monster Nutcracker Featuring Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman & Zombie
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By Rino Enterprises LLC
iPad Only – $1.99
Children will not be able to stop laughing at this entertainment app. Watch Frankenstein, Wolfman, Dracula and Zombie sing – nutcracker style! Children can switch between the characters and watch them laugh as the monsters respond to their yes or no questions. Monsters can also be poked or knocked out. Tons of silly fun to be had with this one.
Trick Or Treat: Picture Me
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By Oceanhouse Media
Universal – $0.99
Oceanhouse Media has created a personalized omBook for children. Recommended for children between two and five, this book allows readers to add their faces to a multitude of costumes like a scarecrow and puppy dog. Photos can be added by either taking new pictures or adding them from the photo library. As with many omBooks, the story offers interactive objects, fun sounds, and highlighted words during narration to provide the reader a fun and learning experience.
Halloween Fun For Kids
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By TPK Studio
Universal – $0.99
Packed with tons of learning and fun, this universal app from TPK Studio is like having six games for the price of one. Games include: Tic-Tac-Toe, Hang Spider, Word Book, Spelling Fun, Count Pumpkin, and Dress Up. This app provides skills to help build number, letter, and word recognition while enjoying the Halloween themes and sounds.
Peekaboo Trick Or Treat With Ed Emberley
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By Night & Day Studios, Inc.
Universal – $1.99
In this fun and spooky game, kids will visit the Peek A Boo funhouse. Children will hear a knock, tap on the door and will be surpised with an Ed Emberley silly Halloween character. Parents can choose to have the game narrated by a toddler voice or they can choose to have it narrated by Ed Emberley. As the Halloween character is show, the word is show and narrated. Although this app is not so much a learn to read book, it will help reinforce word associations.
Animated Boo! Halloween Magic Shape Puzzles For Kids And SuperKids
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By Tatiana Churanova
iPad Only – $0.99
Another puzzle game for children? Not this one! Halloween theme animated puzzles where children can actually add to the puzzle. Once the puzzle is complete, the scene is animated. Children can add pumpkins, ghosts, and bats before the puzzle is finished to make the scene even more active. This app offers 18 puzzles, but it is not a simple drag and drop shape puzzle. Pieces of the puzzle may need to be rotated and sized in order to fit!
Guess Who I Am! – Halloween Monsters Edition
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By Vision Apps
Universal – Free
Fun for the whole family, this guessing game comes with five game modes and five levels of difficulty. Players can ask questions within the app to narrow down the selection. Additional monster characters are unlocked after each correct selection. This is a great game to play with children to help them develop their reasoning skills.
First Words Halloween
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By Learning Touch
Universal – $0.99
Fun graphics and semi-spooky sounds enhance this educational game for young learners. Children need to match the letter tiles with the faded word on the screen. Options allow parents to customize the difficulty of this game for older children, but younger children will also be able to play this by matching the scattered letters with the letters in the word.
Halloween Puzzle – A jigsaw puzzle from Transylvania by Play Toddlers
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By Play Toddlers
iPhone Only – $1.99
A Halloween jigsaw puzzle children will love, nothing too scary here! Over 20 puzzles to choose from, this game offers more than just placing pieces in the correct spot. Young children will enjoy playing with spiders, ghosts and other ghoulish objects while doing their puzzle. When the puzzle is complete, the child will be rewarded with a fun surprise.
Hotel Transylvania Dash
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By PlayFirst, Inc.
Universal – Free
Not only is Halloween approaching, but the release of the Hotel Transylvania move is too! If kids are looking forward to the movie, have them try out this game. The goal of the game is to help Dracula run the hotel by booking rooms, handling room service and luggage all while trying to make the guests happy. Hotel Transylvania is a monsters only hotel, so players will get to meet many of the movie characters.
Halloween Monster Mashup for Android lets you be the mad scientist and spin new monster faces with the swipe of your finger!