Category Archives: Visual Motor

Pirate Scribblebeard’s Treasure – Gone Free

Pirate Scribblebeard’s Treasure was mentioned and recommended previously as a worthwhile drawing app – currently gone free! Available only for iPad and Android, this is a drawing app that provides the tools to draw in characters and objects in a … Continue reading

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Even More Fine Motor Apps

Looking for even more fine motor apps? Preschool Connect the Dots Game App – Compatible with iPad/iPhone (.99), provides over 200 puzzles with features allowing choices of connecting by numbers, upper and lower case letters. Customization of features such as autoplay, … Continue reading

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Alien Buddies App Gone Free Again!

Alien Buddies App is currently free again (until 1-27-12 ?)! This is app was previously mentioned in a post in December, 2011 (when free) for its visual motor and visual perceptual activities. Geared for 3-7 year olds, the following activities are featured in the … Continue reading

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Shape Up App has Gone Free!

Looking for a visual motor integration app focusing on basic shapes? Shape Up is a recently developed app that provides a cute story with activities that focus on creating geometric shapes. Appropriate for preschool to early elementary aged students, Shape Up focuses … Continue reading

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Injini Child Development Game Suite App

Thanks to Molly Shannon for mentioning this app in the Lite version in one of her comments. I had seen this app but shied away from it due to the cost (49.99) not realizing that it came in a Lite-free version. Thank … Continue reading

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More Step by Step Drawing Apps

Step by step drawing apps reviewed in the post dated 12/20/2011 listed two apps that were appropriate for young elementary school students when learning to draw. A comment from Margaret Rice (thank you!) suggested the app Pirate Scribblebeard’s Treasure as more creative … Continue reading

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LetterReflex App

Do you work with students who have difficulty with letter reversals and identifying left versus right? Binary Labs, creator of Dexteria app have created LetterReflex App which focuses on remediating  reversals of letter and in words and right and left discrimination. Games focusing … Continue reading

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Step by Step Drawing App

In my years of OT work with students, intervention for improving visual motor skills included many activities. When needing to support students ability to produce artwork in classroom projects or in art class using step by step drawing tasks focusing on production of … Continue reading

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App Review Website – Fun Educational Apps

Fun Educational Apps website reviews educational apps for kids in different age categories. They also list sale apps or apps gone free. This is a new website I just stumbled upon and found a number of interesting apps suited to … Continue reading

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Lakeshore Learning Apps Gone Free!

Lakeshore Learning, a company that sells educational materials, is offering three new iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad apps for free until December 30th. The apps are early literacy skill apps focusing on letter formation, phonics, letter identification, vowel sounds and beginning letter … Continue reading

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