Top Halloween Apps for Kids

28 Oct 2011 | Apps | Ali Gorelova on Google+

A lot of children love Halloween. This holiday gives them a chance to dress as goblins and witches, carve beautiful jack-o-lanterns and trick-or-treat. There are so many things to do on Halloween, and your iPad can really help you and your kids to prepare for the spooky fun.

The App Store offers cool apps for Halloween that give useful advice, share costume design ideas, tell horror stories, and develop your child’s logic, skills and creativity.

We have selected a list of top Halloween iPad apps for kids so that you don’t have to scroll through tons of applications in order to find the best ones.

1. Carve-a-Pumpkin from Parents Magazine is a free app that lets your little ones carve pumpkins in the safest way. Children can make cute jack-o-lanterns without a knife. It can be a great family hobby for Halloween.

There are 5 various styles of pumpkins available. Select the one that you like the most and ‘carve’ it the way you like. It can be your own or pre-made design from a library full of crazy mouths, eyes, and noses.

Carve-a-Pumpkin from Parents Magazine is a quick way to create Halloween postcards and email them to your friends.

2. The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin is a children’s book for $0.99. Apple has chosen it to be a “Halloween Pick for Kids”. Besides, it has reached the Top10 in paid iPad books sold on iTunes.

This is an interactive storybook about a strange little pumpkin whose name is Spookley the Pumpkin. It was ‘born’ different. While all other pumpkins are round, he is… square. But his unique shape helps him to save the day.

While reading the book, listening to music and looking at the beautiful drawings, children receive a message of tolerance and self-acceptance. It allows dads and moms to raise their little ones in a loving environment as well as celebrate the spooky Halloween.

3. Wood Puzzle Halloween HD is a $1.99 game for iPad popular in 30 countries around the world. iTunes has featured it as “New and noteworthy”.

Wood Puzzle Halloween offers 15 puzzles for toddlers. The game was designed by a mother of two who knows how important it is for preschoolers to develop good motor skills and logic. Children enjoy being entertained. They like to learn and get a reward when they complete each task.

Help your kids to solve puzzles by moving the pieces and sliding them into place. You can choose them to rotate or not, and use Baby Mode for the youngest ones.

4. Subrats Halloween free game has beautiful graphics that look awesome on an iPad screen.

It is designed for gamers of all ages. You need to save the rats, which is fun, fast and addictive event. Are you able to guide these creatures across many dangers? Trains, poison, and puddles now become your enemies, and things dropped by garbage trains now become your only hope for life.

This app is never-ending fun.

5. ScrapPad – Halloween Costume Memory Book is free. It allows you and your kids making great layouts in a quick and fun way. Use your Halloween photographs and make a scrapbook look awesome and cute.

It’s so easy to drag pictures with a finger. Pull and pinch them the way you like it. It only takes a couple of minutes to design a good-looking page and share it with other people.

The only lacks of a free version are watermark and advertisements.