Best apps and games for kids (of all ages)

1.  Faces iMake ($2.99, Available for iOS and Android) Preschoolers

This is considered to be one of the best art app for preschoolers and kindergarten teachers. Created by renowned children’s book author, educator, and artist Hanoch Piven, it lets kids build up any picture they can dream of. Faces iMake is all about learning to observe and discover. The interesting graphics and background shapes allow kids to use their creative streak to produce the most amazing art. From nature inspired real time images to replicas of world’s famous paintings like Mona Lisa and Girl with a Pearl Earring, there’s something to can get you inspired too. Highly recommended!

2. Duolingo (Free, available for iOS and Android) Students, all ages

The user-friendly Duolingo with over 100 million users, is the best free mobile language learning app available for tablet and smartphones users. This highly rated app allows student to learn a foreign language of their choice from a selection of 23 language options available. The mascot, Duo the owl, keeps track of your progress and gives you initiatives to strive harder. The developer, Luis von Ahn has successfully merged gamification and learning, addicting people to popular and lesser known languages. Many Duolingo courses are created by native speakers themselves and are not aimed solely at native English speaker. For each language there are specific courses that aim at those with different first languages. Our rating 4.8 out of 5.

3.  Earth Primer ($9.99, Available for iPad and Mac) Age 9-11

What if your Science book was alive, hardly likely, right? Who cares when you have an interactive science textbook in your hand. The graphically rich Earth Primer is designed to explain how our planet works. With the power of a single finger, manipulate Earth’s very core and surface, look inside the volcanoes, and push around the tectonic plates. Form glaciers, sculpt sand dunes, make mountains, and control the weather. Earth Primer also includes a sandbox that enables you to create and shape a landscape with tools that are only unlocked as you progress through the rest of the book.

4. The Room Three ($4.99, Available for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android $4.99) Older Kids

The sequel to the BAFTA award winning game, The Room (Apple Game of the Year 2012), The Room Three is the most ambitious, rewarding puzzle game ever! Barely a minute into The Room Three and you’re scared out of your wits as a ghostly apparition sits before you in a train carriage. The lights go out, and you wake up in a dungeon, with a note from the mysterious Craftsman, can it get any scarier? Figure your way out solving all manner of puzzles, from the cubes to brain teasers, swiping and squeezing the screen or you are done. As you solve the puzzles, you'll create objects that often help you in the next part of the adventure.

5. ETABU Word Search (Free, available for iOS and Android) All ages

Time to cross boredom out of your vocabulary with this family sharing enabled app that allows up to six family members to use it simultaneously. Work of some vocabulary hungry developers, who have taken classic word search puzzles and added several competitive twists to this all-time fave puzzle. eTABU Word Search helps you increase perception and reflex that combines simple rules and epic fun. Instead of a traditional word list, players work from a single keyword. The mystery words in the puzzle are all related to the keyword. To add more to the challenge, there’s a timed element. Players can compete with themselves to beat their previous best records, or they can compete with friends to see who has the best reflexes and the widest vocabulary. Must try!