Recommended Apps

The Play School Art Maker app is a fun way for kids to freely create pictures, animated movies and story slideshows using their favourite Play School toys and craft items. Free.

Play School Play Time app encourages imagination and creativity through open-ended-play, exploratory tasks and engagement with the Play School character's world. Free.

Draw and Tell is an award-winning creative tool for children of all ages that encourages imagination, story telling and open-ended play. Use the tool to draw, color, decorate with stickers, create animations and record stories. Ages: 3-9 years. Free.

I Imagine app blends children's photos and voice into a beautifully illustrated story full of fun and games. I imagine tells the relatable story of a child (your child!) at home and wanting to play with their parent who has work to do. Ages: 3 to 8 years. Free.

Imagistory is a creative storytelling app that encourages anyone to be the storyteller, no matter what your age or language. Free.

Drawing Box is the most suitable app to learn and practice drawing and painting. With responsive smooth pencil and brush strokes students can use it to make a quick sketch or a detailed study. Free.

The Chatterpix Kids app can make anything talk - pets, friends, doodles, and more. Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then save to the camera roll. Ages: 5-12. Free.

Futaba app. Each player takes a seat around the iPad and taps in to start. The game begins as images zoom into the playing area. The first player to match the word to the image scores a point. Ages: 4-8. Free.

ScratchJr, coding app teaches children to learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games. Ages 5-7. Free.

Available on Apple, Google play, Amazon & Chrome Web store.

Number Find lite app challenge you to find hidden numbers on a grid, sounds simple but … Maths is about patterns, this game has you working out the pattern of the grid and in doing so learning how numbers work. Free.

Sketches school is a special edition of Sketches targeted for a younger audience, with a specifically designed interface making it very accessible to kids. Sketches is the most realistic, versatile and user-friendly sketching app designed for iPad. Recommended for Years 3-6. Free.

Clips is a free app for making fun and creative videos..With a few taps you can create a video or tell a quick story with artistic filters, animated text, music, emoji, and fun stickers. Recommended for Years 5-6. Free.

The Bee-Bot app is based on Bee-Bot® floor robot.

The App makes use of Bee-Bot’s key functionality and enables children to improve their skills in directional language, programming sequences of forwards, backwards, left and right 90 degree turns. Free.
Ages 4 - 7.

Swift Playgrounds is makes it fun to learn and experiment with code. You solve interactive puzzles in the guided “Learn to Code” lessons to master the basics of coding. It requires no coding knowledge, so is perfect for students just starting out.
Free.
For older students.
For iPad and MacOS.

Write About This - NZ

Write About This New Zealand is a visual writing prompt & creation platform. Versatile and easy to use for kids of many ages. The pictures are engaging and show diversity; the prompts get kids thinking critically and creatively. Ages 5+

Costs $5.99