Kawartha Lakes Mums: 10 Halloween Apps Reviewed Which of These Do You Like?

Friday 31 October 2014

10 Halloween Apps Reviewed Which of These Do You Like?

10 Apple iTunes Store Halloween Apps

Apple iTunes Store offers a number of Halloween Apps. Which apps do we recommend, and which are rotten apples?

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Here are 10 different Halloween Apps we checked out.
Do you agree with our reviews?

10 Halloween iTunes Apps Reviewed

It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown as featured in Time and the New York Times. We especially like the educational features such as word and note highlighting to help improve reading and musical skills, players can even hear individual words spoken with the tap of a finger. Our top choice and the top choice in Books and Games today.

Top Halloween App? It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!

Narrated by Peter Robbins, the original voice of Charlie Brown, everyone’s favourite Halloween special is beautifully re-imagined in this interactive storybook designed for iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch. Digitally remastered illustrations are brought to life with the voices, dialog and music from the original 1966 animated TV special. This classic has an interactive activity book lets you relive memories for Halloweens past with the Peanuts gang. Activities include:
- Create your own Peanuts character
- Join Charlie Brown at his first-ever Halloween party! Choose from
- Dress up to trick-or-treat with millions of hilarious costume combinations
- Carve your own pumpkin,
- Play a ditty on Schroeder’s piano and
- Bob for apples with Snoopy — just watch out for dog germs, blech!
Hang out with Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts gang this Halloween.
Strawberry Shortcake Sweet Shop Halloween Candy Making. This free App is certified by the kidSAFE® Seal Program. This free download for iPhone and iPad, allows players to have fun making a variety of tasty desserts for Strawberry Shortcake’s friends guided by Strawberry Shortcake’s voice through step-by-step instructions and helpful tips. Players can even create real recipes to recreate later in your home kitchen. The game offers endless customization possibilities through food colouring, ingredients, sprinkles and decoration combinations. Young cooking enthusiasts age 6-8 will enjoy this game.

Free Halloween Games -Strawberry Shortcake App
Pumpkin Creation is free app similar to a virtual Mr. Potato Head. Designed for both iPhone and iPad. Players can choose from a wide variety of eyes, mouths, pumpkin types and accessories, light their Jack-o-lantern and even email it or share it on Facebook with friends. Due to the social media function, we would recommend this be used with parental supervision. There is an option to turn off in app purchases for deluxe added features.

Free Halloween Game- Pumpkin Creation
Pic Collage - Photo and Video grids for Halloween.FREE App for iPhone and iPad. USA Today says: "Whether you're 6 or 106, you'll find the free Pic Collage app an excellent way to dress up your photo collection and share your handiwork." 70 million people use PicCollage to make collages of their photos. Pic Collage even has Halloween CONTESTS that allow you to create a visual response. You can share your collages on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and tumblr! Good news for parents and teachers - the "School Settings" feature allows you to disable "Photos from Web" and disable all social features such as the Explore and Profile tabs.
Jewel Mania Halloween - A free Game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch puts a new spin on the typical jewel swap game with Halloween themed puzzles. Tweens and up might enjoy this one. For parents to turn off in app purchases, follow the directions on the App description page.

Free Halloween Games- Jewell Mania
Carve a Pumpkin, free app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch by Parents® magazine, lets players choose from five different pumpkin styles, then either “carve” a design of your own with you finger, or pick from the library of wacky eyes, noses, and mouths.. Add a message and you can share your creation by email, Facebook, and Twitter along with the ad for Parents magazine. This has no in app purchases as it is has an ad for Parents magazine, and what's the harm in that? Great for children of all ages though we would like to see an option to disable the social sharing.
Pet Halloween Night for iPad and iPhone is a free Game offering 6 different cute animals to dress up and play 7 mini-games including virtual colouring pages, and a lift a flap style hidden surprises haunted house. In app purchases can be turned off in the settings.
Halloween Spa for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is a free dress up app. Choose a character, give them a spa treatment, then choose make up and costumes, then share your creation on Facebook. In app purchases can be turned off in settings.The tone of the description for this app sounds like a pervert, and the costume styles match the tone. Not recommended.
Halloween City is a Free Game with in app purchases for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. It has hundreds of Halloween themed animated characters that can be combined to make hybrids. There is a farm where you feed and grow your monsters, a city decoration part, and a battle zone. If you can turn off the in app purchases, we can't seem to find the setting. Teens and up who enjoy sim type games might enjoy this, but we're not keen on it.
Coin Dozer Halloween a free app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch has 3-D graphics that have fascinated players in many countries making it the number 1 app in UK, Hong Kong, Macau, Netherlands, Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan, and Philippines! The higher the level, the more new treasures you can collect. We can't ind instructions for disabling the in app purchase options. Interesting simply for seeing the 3-D Graphics. Coin dozer game fans will like this, but a bit boring for us.

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