Top 5 FREE Educational Disney Apps for Kids

When I am wearing my Super Duper Library Lady cape during the day, I spend a lot of time looking at apps that are educational but still fun. Fun is important to kids.  Education is important to parents and teachers.  Both are important to super, duper library ladies.  Disney, of course, offers a lot of great apps kids that are both. No surprise there.  It’s Disney!!  So, I’ve put together my top 5 list of what Disney has to offer that is educational, fun, and free.

Now for a couple of disclaimers.  All of these app are FREE.  However, they do offer in-app purchases. The app can still be enjoyed using only what comes free, but just know it can be even more fun with some of the extras. All links lead to iTunes.  As far as I have been able to find, these apps are not available on Android.  If you find them for Android, let me know.  Also, I am in no way being compensated for these opinions. These opinions belong to me and are based on my experiences as a mom and a library lady.  No one paid me or gave me free stuff…although, wouldn’t it be cool if they did?

1.  Disney Storytime – Good for ages 2 to 10.

This is an awesome book app featuring many of  the Disney characters we all know and love.  It comes ready with three free Disney digital books. The narration of the books is very well done, and the stories feature cool sound effects and surprises in the pictures.  Each book has the option to have it read aloud or allow the reader to read it without narration.  Even without narration, the story still has the music and picture effects.  I like this app so much because parents or kids can even record their OWN voices reading the story and play it back.  That makes this app great for reading alone, reading together, and reading out loud to practice reading fluency.  Other books can be purchased through the parent feature.  Parents pay for credits, and the kiddos can use the credits to buy the books they want.  Each book costs 1 credit.  Credits range from $3.99 for 2 to $39.99 for 37 credits which purchases every book..

2.  Disney Classics Collection – Good for ages 2-8.

This app is similar to the Storytime app in that it offers Disney digital books, but with a few key differences.  This app is geared for a young audience.  First, only a few different stories are offered. The app comes with access to Dumbo.  The other stories are Snow White, Bambi, and Aristocats, and are $1.99 each or $3.99 for all 3.  You get the narrated story, a puzzle (with 3 levels of difficulty), a calliope, and 7 different color sheets.  The narration cannot be turned off, but each word lights up as the narrator speaks.  This helps kids understand “one to one” (one word, one sound).  The stories include great background  music, animation, and sound effects. This app is a great read to me app for the little bitties.  It integrates reading and play, and let’s face it, a child can’t have too much fun learning!

3.  Disney Puzzle Pack – Good for ages 2-10

This is exactly what the title says.  It’s a pack of different puzzles featuring one of 7 different Disney characters.  Puzzles include word jumbles, memory matching, traditional jigsaw puzzles,  find mes’, spot the differences, and word searches.  Kids dig puzzles. Within each puzzle players can select 3 different levels of  play.  Level 1 for the little ones and level 3 for the big kids.  For free you get all 3 levels of 1 puzzle for each character (i.e. Tinkerbell is a jigsaw puzzle).  Puzzles help build critical thinking and reasoning skills, and this app provides a way for smaller children to work their way up through progressively harder skills.  Parents can unlock packs of puzzles for $1.99 or all the puzzles for $9.99. Each pack comes with 6 jigsaws, 6 words searches, 6 spot the differences, 30+ word jumbles, a matching game, and a find me.

4.  Disney Creativity Studio – Good for everybody. Even grown ups

This app just rocks.  Actually, rocks doesn’t even begin to describe it.  I’m not sure there is a word for it’s awesomeness. It’s not number 1 because to be a legit library lady I feel like I need to make the book stuff number 1, and books and reading totally deserve to be number one, but the coolness of this app is just off the charts!!!!!  There’s so much to do and all of it is fun and educational!  Dot to dots (numerical order), tracing, coloring, and learn to draws, free draw…the creative opportunities are endless.  Those are the favs in my house.  Kids can follow the direction (super important skill) and draw some really detailed Disney characters like Mickey, Minnie, Princesses, Monsters Inc., Jake, Sofia, Doc McStuffins…all by themselves, either on the device or on paper. There are even videos from real Disney animators that teach some of the learn to draws.  The app also features different types of art tools for kids to work with (pencil, marker, crayon, paint, spray paint) so they can make different designs and even add things like shading to their creations. The app allows creations to be emailed or saved to a portfolio.  There’s tons of stuff to do for free.  If you want to buy the whole shebang, and if you are like me, you probably will, mostly for yourself. It will cost you $0.99 for each character pack and $1.99 for all the extra art tools.

5. Princess Story Theater – Ages 4-10

This app allows the user to create their very own fairy tale story.  In the free version, Belle is the only princess available to use to make a story. Kids can stay very busy making stories with Belle for a very long time.  However, additional princesses and story elements can be unlocked for $1.99 each, or $9.99 for all.   The app needs access to the microphone on your device so the user can create a story by recording their very own adventure for the princess they have chosen. They can choose the setting, the position of the characters, and other special surprises.  This app offers two different ways to create a story…guided creation. During guided creation, a narrator guides the user through each step of the story making process.  In free play, the user is completely in charge.  At the end of either types of story making, the user gets to name their story and and save it to the device’s camera roll for future viewing or sharing.  I love this app because it teaches kids so much about story elements like character, setting, and how stories have

I could go on and on about my favorite Disney apps.  The first five are just a small sampling of what Disney has to  offer.  There are so many to choose from that do so many great things for kids.  Go and enjoy these.  I’ll be back with more.

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