10 Fun and Educational Learning Apps for Kids

As parents face schooling challenges this fall, learning apps for kids can help support your child's learning through fun games and activities. The "COVID-slump" could become a reality as our kids figure out how to learn in new ways in the fall. Check out Common Sense Media's recommended list of math and reading learning apps for kids that won't feel like school to them but can help decrease that academic slump. 

Learning Apps for Elementary School Kids

PBS KIDS for Parents Play & Learn Engineering

Recommended ages: 3-4

This parent-child engagement tool was created in collaboration with early childhood experts and allows users to design and test roller coasters, use simple tools to problem solve their way through an obstacle course, build clever contraptions to deliver food to hungry animals, and construct boxy towers to rescue a kitten from a tree. 

Epic! - Kids’ Books and Videos 

Recommended ages: 4 and older 

A digital reading club for kids ages 2-12, which includes quizzes and learning videos, plus materials for parents. 

DIY.org 

Recommended ages: 5 and older

These inspired multimedia projects are not overtly academic, but reading and math skills are required for each challenge.  

Libby, by Overdrive 

Recommended ages: 5 and older

Get free and easy access to your local library's entire selection of digital kids (and adult) books. And for reluctant readers, there are audio versions available.  

DragonBox Big Numbers 

Recommended ages: 6 and older

Quirky games that require early elementary arithmetic so kids can practice math as they explore a virtual?world.