Ipad apps for 12 year old
Blissland1234
Since we've been talking about ipad apps, can anyone recommend some cheap, good, challenging strategy games for my 12 year old daughter?
Thanks, erika
Thanks, erika
Sandra Dodd
-=-Since we've been talking about ipad apps-=-
I nearly didn't let the post through, because we weren't talking about apps; we were talking about parenting and unschooling. So I don't want to encourage people to come here and ask about what shoes to buy or mini-vans, or juice boxes. Unschoolers might use them, but it's not about unschooling.
These are good for twelve year olds or for teens or adults or younger children. They're clear, plain logic, and they're also all beautiful and multi-layered. (Flow Free is not so layered, but is especially beautiful.)
plants vs. zombies at $6.99 is the most expensive thing I've bought for iPad,
and it was worth much more.
Some of the games we play here lately have free versions and then some paid at
$1.99 or 99¢, and that is less than a greeting card, and Keith, Marty and I have
played them for MANY hours. Those games would be easy enough for a four year
old with spatial skills, or to play as a two-player game (take turns, and let
him have the easy plays):
Flow Free (there are add-on levels for a dollar or two)
Flip Pix Art (some are free; there are about ten of them altogether, I think)
After Joyce's husband saw this game, he took it to work and the other professors were playing it, too.
My engineer husband plays it nearly every night, and has been doing HexLogic some too, but Flip Pix is his favorite.
Julie Daniel is really good at it, as is my son Marty. Marty has played them all and said only once did he have to guess something; there's always a clue.
There are easier levels, and harder ones.
Flip Pix Jigsaw (there are several of these, none expensive)
HexLogic (there are four, and probably will be five with a few weeks if there aren't already)
They're all by Gabysoft except for Flow Free which is by Big Duck games. It
might help to put the maker in when you search.
Try googling logic games for iPad, though. Youll get images and reviews.
Sandra
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I nearly didn't let the post through, because we weren't talking about apps; we were talking about parenting and unschooling. So I don't want to encourage people to come here and ask about what shoes to buy or mini-vans, or juice boxes. Unschoolers might use them, but it's not about unschooling.
These are good for twelve year olds or for teens or adults or younger children. They're clear, plain logic, and they're also all beautiful and multi-layered. (Flow Free is not so layered, but is especially beautiful.)
plants vs. zombies at $6.99 is the most expensive thing I've bought for iPad,
and it was worth much more.
Some of the games we play here lately have free versions and then some paid at
$1.99 or 99¢, and that is less than a greeting card, and Keith, Marty and I have
played them for MANY hours. Those games would be easy enough for a four year
old with spatial skills, or to play as a two-player game (take turns, and let
him have the easy plays):
Flow Free (there are add-on levels for a dollar or two)
Flip Pix Art (some are free; there are about ten of them altogether, I think)
After Joyce's husband saw this game, he took it to work and the other professors were playing it, too.
My engineer husband plays it nearly every night, and has been doing HexLogic some too, but Flip Pix is his favorite.
Julie Daniel is really good at it, as is my son Marty. Marty has played them all and said only once did he have to guess something; there's always a clue.
There are easier levels, and harder ones.
Flip Pix Jigsaw (there are several of these, none expensive)
HexLogic (there are four, and probably will be five with a few weeks if there aren't already)
They're all by Gabysoft except for Flow Free which is by Big Duck games. It
might help to put the maker in when you search.
Try googling logic games for iPad, though. Youll get images and reviews.
Sandra
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erin_huffstutter
This year, we've been liking:
Where's The Water?
Cut The Rope
Tiny Places
Cover Orange
Greedy Spider
Granny Smith
Where's Waldo?
Where's Waldo in Hollywood?
Monster Physics
Hobby Farm
Princess Fairy Tale Maker*
[*This last one has an unfortunate name, but it's actually really cool because you can choose characters and backdrops frame-by-frame to make your own "animated" storyboards, put all the frames together into one long story, and record a voice over. Then you can save it and play it back for people.]
_________________
All of the above-mentioned games are also fun to play as a family! It's really cozy when we snuggle in my bed, one daughter on each side, and help strategize the games together.
We've explored lots of other apps, but about half we got were duds. So the above list is the best of what we've seen this year.
I am amazed by apps, and all my family learns from them. And so inexpensive, too! We live in extraordinary times.
Parents who restrict their children's access to iPads and apps are, in my opinion, really missing out on some seriously fun learning.
Erin
Where's The Water?
Cut The Rope
Tiny Places
Cover Orange
Greedy Spider
Granny Smith
Where's Waldo?
Where's Waldo in Hollywood?
Monster Physics
Hobby Farm
Princess Fairy Tale Maker*
[*This last one has an unfortunate name, but it's actually really cool because you can choose characters and backdrops frame-by-frame to make your own "animated" storyboards, put all the frames together into one long story, and record a voice over. Then you can save it and play it back for people.]
_________________
All of the above-mentioned games are also fun to play as a family! It's really cozy when we snuggle in my bed, one daughter on each side, and help strategize the games together.
We've explored lots of other apps, but about half we got were duds. So the above list is the best of what we've seen this year.
I am amazed by apps, and all my family learns from them. And so inexpensive, too! We live in extraordinary times.
Parents who restrict their children's access to iPads and apps are, in my opinion, really missing out on some seriously fun learning.
Erin
--- In [email protected], Blissland1234 <blissland1234@...> wrote:
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> Since we've been talking about ipad apps, can anyone recommend some cheap, good, challenging strategy games for my 12 year old daughter?
>
> Thanks, erika
>
Sandra Dodd
Someone wrote to recommend Lemonade Stand.
I deleted the post because she didn't have any particular, personal information about it and had appended two long posts with it.
Dear everybody:
Only quote what's necessary. Often that's nothing.
When you recommend something, please give some details, and why you're recommending it. Make it about unschooling.
Sandra
I deleted the post because she didn't have any particular, personal information about it and had appended two long posts with it.
Dear everybody:
Only quote what's necessary. Often that's nothing.
When you recommend something, please give some details, and why you're recommending it. Make it about unschooling.
Sandra