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25 Fun Learning Apps and YouTube Videos for Little Learners

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Learning apps and YouTube videos have exploded since I started homeschooling my kids 25 years ago. Now that I’m helping to homeschool Munch King in preschool I’m keeping a list of my favorite learning apps and YouTube videos to use with him.

Moreover, a lot of the learning apps and YouTube videos which I rounded up here can be used for kids up to third grade, but there are some you can use for older kids too.

25 Fun Learning Apps and YouTube Videos for Little Learners

Because Munch King has limits on screen time, I want apps and YouTube videos at my fingertips when we need him to keep learning. Whether you need grandma to entertain the kids when you’re away or you’re taking care of a little or the bigs, you’ll want to save this list.

Additionally, not all apps are educational so I’ll update the list as I find more learning apps and YouTube videos that are worth saving.

Educational Apps For Young Learners

You may want all the DragonBox apps. You’ll love grabbing these even for your older learners. “DragonBox is an award-winning series of educational math apps that are designed to engage and excite children about learning.” Yep, math can be exciting.

Tinybop is another one where you’ll want all the apps.

Plants Tinybop

Reading Eggs. Prepare your child for learning the fun way with a great range of fun interactive mathematics and reading apps specially designed for early learners.

Reading Eggs

Award-winning learn-to-code platform for kids, ages 5-9

codeSpark Academy is the most used home coding program for kids 5-9! 

SnailBob2 The puzzle everyone loves.

SnailBob

Your kids will love this series of apps MarcoPolo Learning, Weather, and World School

MarcoPolo Ocean
MarcoPolo Arctic
 

Khan Academy Kids.

Children can learn reading, language, writing, math, social-emotional development, problem-solving skills, and motor development.

Khan Academy Kids
Mammals Tinybop
Space Tinybop

Phonics With Phonograms by Logic of English. A phonogram app that drills all the sounds for each phonogram.

Logic of English

Duck Duck Moose is another one where you want just about all the apps. Fish school, Word Wagon, Park Math, Moose Math, Draw and Tell and More!

Fish School – 123 ABC for Kids

Skybrary is a carefully curated, ever expanding interactive library of digital books and video explorations designed to engage young readers and foster a love of learning.

Skybrary by Levar Burton

Educational YouTube Videos for Kids

The Dr. Bincos Show. From volcanoes to carnivorous plants your kids will be sure to find something educational.

The Brave Wilderness. “The Brave Wilderness Channel is your one stop connection to a wild world of adventure and amazing up close animal encounters!“

Homeschool Pop. “Our goal is to make fun, exciting learning videos for elementary students. We are called Homeschool Pop because our lead narrator and writer is a homeschool dad. (Pop is a fun way to say “dad”).”

We Love Puzzles. “We’re two sisters that, with their parents, make amazing puzzles that are both cool and educational! We often use fun materials such as Play-Doh and glitter to create our puzzles making them even more interesting and fun!”

Maddi Geography TV. “Hi, I’m Maddi and I am here to teach you and your kids fun facts about countries around the world. Every week I do a video about a different country focusing on geography, the food people in that country enjoy, as well as the indigenous animals. At the end of each video there is also a section about quirky and weird facts about that country.”

Kratts Creatures Different featured animals.

Operation Ouch. “Operation Ouch is packed with incredible facts about the human body and fronted by identical twins Dr.Chris and Dr. Xand van Tulleken who experiment and explore their way through the fascinating world of medicine and biology. This channel will de-mistify hospitals for younger viewers.”

Science Max. “Have you ever done a science experiment and wondered “What would this be like if it were HUGE?” Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you’ve done at home.”

Jack Hartmann Kids Music Channel. “Our songs for kids and educational videos will help your children learn counting, numbers, reading and language skills, nursery rhymes, science, physical fitness, dance and movement.”

Kids Learning Tube. “Kids Learning Tube educates kids through music and animation in a fun and unique approach to learning.”

Online Learning Resources

Peep and the Big Wide World “Peep and the Big Wide World gives wings to the innovative idea of teaching science to preschoolers.”

WordWorld. “Welcome to WordWorld, the first preschool series where words are truly the stars of the show! Come along for an adventurous romp into a vibrant world of words with the WordFriends—animals whose bodies are made up of the letters that spell the word they are.”

Caillou – WildBrain. “Meet Caillou, the lovable 4 year old with a big imagination! Caillou experiences all the wonders of being a child that audiences around the world can relate to; first day of school, caring for a pet, learning a new sport or spending time with family.”

Hooked on Phonics.

Have Fun Teaching. “HFT offers free worksheets, songs, videos, and resources for teachers, parents and kids!“

These fun apps and YouTube videos are great ways to keep your little learners engaged, but also entertained and are educational.

25 Fun Learning Apps and YouTube Videos for Little Learners

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Did you find or two you can use now?

Hugs and love ya,


Atomidoodle Chemistry Game App

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I am so thankful to Hero Factor Games so that my boys don’t have to depend on their mom’s science prowess or should I say lack of it when it comes to learning science and especially chemistry.

Atomidoodle Chemistry Game App

Wildly, I was waving my hands asking Hero Factor Games pick me, pick me to review their Atomidoodle app and I am so glad they did. We love this game app and Tiny just can’t put it down!

Let me back up first because you remember I shared with you my post about starting Chemistry this year with Tiny. And you know how important it is to me that subjects, even at the middle and high school level stay fun.

That is just what Atomidoodle does. What a treasure find for us.

Who knows maybe I won’t have to teach chemistry at all this year with this awesome app? (okay, okay).  Let me tell you how it works though.

Atomidoodle Chemistry Game App @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

I was given a free download of Atomidoodle and I was paid for my time. However, paid for my time does not mean paid off.  ALL opinions are my own and for sure I will always tell you what is on my mind. Your experience may vary. When I do accept a review it’s because I am excited to tell you about it. Read my full disclosure here.

How to Bring the Periodic Table of Elements to Life

Atomidoodle is a virtual chemistry notebook  that brings the period table of elements to life. By the way, this great learning tool is available for iPad and on Google Play for Android devices.

The key to bringing the periodic table of elements to life is in how the game is played. More on that in a minute.

Atomidoodle Chemistry Game App 1 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

I want you to know first that this action packed game weaves logic, math and science skills together in a fast paced moving game.

  • Kids use fusion (addition of atoms) and fission (division) to understand how atoms work.
  • A player has to open and close widgets. For example, Helium is HE 2 and an atom is let out of the portal to move along the path. In this case the atom’s number was 4.
  • The player has to get the atom to the fission (division) widget to divide 4 and get 2 for proper atomic number.
  • Your child needs to keep the atoms moving along on the path because if they don’t atoms will explode.
Atomidoodle Chemistry Game App 2 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus-1

The object of the game is to unlock all the elements on the notebook above. So cool!

Atomidoodle Chemistry Game App 3 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus-1

For Tiny, it’s like unlocking little chests of information since our study of chemistry until now has been very basic.As a player unlocks the elements, he gets a Did You Know fact full of things that inquisitive minds want to know.

Did I mention the art work is truly beautiful? You notice the notebook looking paper type background along with all the doodles.

Tiny got frustrated with me because I deleted and reinstalled the app because the high stepping music wasn’t playing on our app. (Of course not having the volume turned up solved this problem.)

But Tiny said the levels get challenging as you go up.

So that is why it is hard to put a grade level on this because a child in elementary grade go start off on this and it increasingly gets challenging up to a high school level.

It really is an app that you can use with all of your children and for multiple ages. It is such a value for the price.

One important thing to me that is worth mentioning is that the owners are a husband and wife team that believe in using your powers for good.

In reading their vision, I was thrilled to know that they support, “Creative video games that support positive, moral, and biblical decision-making.”

Science is a logical study and the universe is full of the work of an orderly Designer. And I very much appreciate that a non creation view is not subtly sprinkled throughout the game.

Too, Tiny decided that you really needed to see how this fun app works, so he created a video.

Watch and enjoy!

Benefits of Learning Interactively

  • Children who run from boring worksheets will love the interactive way to learn the periodic table of elements.
  • A child who is gifted or wants a challenge will love Atomidoodle.
  • Elementary grade children who have a science bent will love being able to play.
  • High school kids (like me who ran from science in high school) will love the fact that with logic and some math, they too can learn chemistry the easy and fun way. They can learn to love the fascinating world of science through Atomidoodle.

I JUST love doing these reviews because I love it when my sponsors LOVE YOU and do giveaways.

Before we get this party started though, I just wanted to say a public Thank You to the awesome folks of Hero Factor Games for making such an awesome app to bless both science(y) and non-science(y) homeschooled kids. Thank You Tim and Sara!

Company Name: Hero Factor Games
Grades: From beginners to High School
Format: Available for iPad at iTunes for $2.99. Available for Android at Google Play for $2.99

Update 2022. I can’t find this app in the Apple store. I will keep trying, but it is available in the Google store.

Finally, look at these other chemistry homeschool ideas:

Hugs and love ya,