Kid-Friendly Apps for Holiday Road Trips
Name: Oregon Trail (iPhone or Android) Cost: $4.99; a free version is available, but we highly recommend the paid version Highlight: Your favorite pioneer adventure game from grade school is now an app. Oregon Trail has all of the decision-making and problem-solving fun of the original game, plus additional features to take the experience even further than before.
Name: Minecraft Pocket Edition (iPhone or Android) Cost: $6.99 Highlight: Minecraft to go! They can play it for hours at home and for hours in the car. Pocket Edition includes Survival and Creative modes, infinite worlds, caves, new biomes, mobs, villages, and lots more. This app is even better on the iPad because of the larger view.
Name: Hay Day (iPhone or Android) Cost: Free Highlight: Not every app in the store has a commercial featuring the hilarious Craig Robinson. Hay Day lets you grow and customize your farm, trade crops, fulfill orders, and build your own town. Hay Day is completely free to play, however, some game items can also be purchased for real money. If you do not want to use this feature, please set up password protection for in-app purchases.
Name: Scribble Press App (iPhone) Cost: $3.99 Highlight: Scribble Press for iPad is a book creation platform that allows kids to create and share their own stories with hundreds of great drawing and writing tools. They can easily write their own or use one of over 50 story templates and use the 500 drawing tools. Stories can be shared or printed.
Name: License Plate Game (iPhone) Cost: $0.99 Highlight: The License Plate game is super simple. The kids can search for plates while the app keeps track of the states found and the states remaining.