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I love the Thinkrolls apps to develop logical thinking skills. It's aimed at non-readers, but my 9 year old son still loves playing this. The games are fun and kids learn coding concepts in a playful way. Codespark Academy regularly updates the app with new content. You can have up to 3 children registered on the account.

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You get a 7 day free trial and then it's a subscription based app for $7.99 per month. My son loves this app and it works really well even on the smallest Amazon Fire tablet screen.Ĭodespark Academy is a brilliant app for learning coding concepts, but it's not free. You can change the colours of the blocks, but your only tool to create is a block. It's open-ended and you can create different worlds. It's fantastic for 3D spatial awareness and planning which character to use to build a world. You need to manuouver a ball to move around in the 3D space. There are 6 diffrent characters and they all build in a different way. Toca Boca Builders allows you to build a block-based world in 3D. The Toca Boca apps are paid apps, but they are worth the money for younger kids as they will not be interrupted by unwanted ads and in-app purchased. This is one of my son's favourite apps on his Amazon Fire tablet. There are 3 characters to play in the game and each have their own super powers. Toca Boca Blocks is a 2D platform style game which you can build and then play. ScratchJr is an open-ended digital playground for children to explore coding and digital art. I also like that you can use the camera tool on the device to add your face to your project. One of my son's favourite features is recoding his own voice. There's a lot of scope to create your own games, interactive stories and animations. ScratchJr is specifically designed for non-readers.

It was inspired by Scratch, which many children now use in school. This is one of our favourite free apps for teaching coding skills to young children. Here's our list of top apps for young children with an Amazon Fire tablet: (Codespark Academy provides a free trial for 7 days.) All the apps in our list contains no ads or in-app purchases. You can always find free apps, but for younger kids, I prefer to pay for an app which I know will be safe and specifically designed for them.

So we've done some searching and found some great apps for young children using Amazon Fire tablets which will help teach coding and computational thinking skills.Īt Tech Age Kids we don't think all screen time is equal and make a distinction between passive and creative screen time.Īpps that help teach kids skills like coding, logical, computational and creative thinking fall into creative screen time and as modern parents, we should encourage our children to choose these apps during screen time. Many companies also opt to create educational apps for iOS first and often these apps never make it to the Amazon Appstore.

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One thing to note is that you will not have the range of apps available on iPads or Android tablets. They are small, affordable and the kids' edition provide additional features specifically with little kids in mind. Amazon Fire tablets are great for young children (3-8 years).

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