Children's Technology Review

Little Slumber Lullaby Music

$2.99

Teaches: Music, a sleeping aid.

CTR Rating: 70%

Fisher-Price 4-in-1 Step 'n Play Piano

$130, Smart Toy

Teaches: fine motor skills, music, problem solving, gross motor skills

Fisher-Price Bright Beats Learnin' Lights Dance Mat

$40, Smart Toy

Teaches: school readiness, music, beat, alphabet, letter recognition

Fisher-Price Bright Beats BeatBelle

$40, Smart Toy

Teaches: music, rhythm, beat

Sesame Street Makes Music

$2.99, iPad, iPhone

Teaches: music, pitch, rhythm, melody

CTR Rating: 88%

Play All Day Elmo

$60, smart toy

Teaches: music, singing, causality, gross motor, rhythm

Loopimal

$2.99, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Teaches: music, rhythm, melody, math, counting, computer sequencing

CTR Rating: 98%

My First Music Pad Christmas

iPad

Teaches: music, Christmas

Tachin Mini

iPad, iPhone

Teaches: causality, music

CTR Rating: 67.5%

Tachin Tachan

$1.99, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Teaches: causality, music

CTR Rating: 68%

Bubl Gelato (also called Bubl Ice Cream)

$1.99, iPad, iPhone, Android

Teaches: language experience, musical genres, art, creativity

CTR Rating: 88%

Bubl Draw

$0.99, iPad (37MB)

Teaches: art, creativity, music, temporal relations

CTR Rating: 90%

SymbolSmash

$2.99, iPad

Teaches: music, musical instruments

CTR Rating: 50%

Sago Mini Music Box

$0.99, iPad

Teaches: music, spatial relations, language, causality

CTR Rating: 96%

Baby's Playful Hands

$0.99, iPad, iPhone, iPhone Touch

Teaches: causality, music

CTR Rating: 80%

Ten In The Bed

$1.99, iPad

Teaches: counting, reading, counting to ten, music, base ten

CTR Rating: 74%

Touch 'n Sing - Touch and Sing Along Picture Book

iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch (iOS 4.3 or later)

Teaches: music, singing

CTR Rating: 30%

Sago Mini Sound Box

$2.99, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

Teaches: causality, music

CTR Rating: 94%

Kids Sounds

iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Teaches: music, rhythm

CTR Rating: 76%

Leo Lion Band

$1.99, iPad, iPhone

Teaches: music, instruments, rhythm, pitch, volume

CTR Rating: 86%

It's A Small World

$7.99, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

Teaches: Geography, causality, language, music

CTR Rating: 94%

Master Moves Mickey

$70, Smart Toy

Teaches: dancing, music

Old MacDonald

$0.99, iPad, iPhone

Teaches: singing, reading, music

CTR Rating: 84%

Sing N' Match: Head To Toes!

$0.99, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Teaches: body parts, music, memory

CTR Rating: 32%

Let's Rock Elmo Guitar

Smart Toy

Teaches: music

Let's Rock Grover Microphone

$15, Smart Toy

Teaches: music

Lettersaurus

$20, Smart Toy

Teaches: alphabet, music, colors, fine motor skills, letters

Baby's Musical Hands

$0.99, iPad

Teaches: causality, music

CTR Rating: 94%

Zizu Cooks up a Tune

$0.99, iPad

Teaches: music, notes

CTR Rating: 66%

PianoBall - Fun with Learning

$0.99, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Teaches: music exploration

CTR Rating: 80%

ELS Passport

Windows

Teaches: all school subjects, art, music, math, reading

Rock Star Mickey

$50, Smart Toy

Teaches: dancing, music

CTR Rating: 80%

Let's Rock Elmo

$70, Smart Toy

Teaches: music, rhythm

CTR Rating: 90%

Boogie Bopper

$2, iPad

Teaches: music, melody, rhythm, causality

CTR Rating: 96%

Dora's Big Birthday Adventure

$20, Windows, Mac OSX

Teaches: problem solving, math skills, music, computer skills

Singing Fingers

iPhone, iPad

Teaches: art, music, pitch, creativity

CTR Rating: 94%

TonePad

iPhone, iPad

Teaches: music, timing

CTR Rating: 94%

Melodala

$2.99, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

Teaches: music, creativity

CTR Rating: 76%

Hello Kitty Party

$30, Nintendo DS

Teaches: classification, sorting, music, patterns, logic

CTR Rating: 92%

Giggles Computer Funtime for Baby - My Musical World

$20, Windows, Mac OSX

Teaches: casality, music, notation, Spanish, English, timing, classification

CTR Rating: 100%

Skippy the Smart Pup

$30, Smart Toy

Teaches: vocabulary, music, cause & effect

Build-A-Bear Workshop (Nintendo DS)

$30, Nintendo DS

Teaches: logic, sorting, some creativity, music

CTR Rating: 76%

Digital Music Player: Elmo's Rockin' Road Trip

$17, Smart Toy

Teaches: reading, music, language experience

CTR Rating: 90%

Introducing Trebellina

DVD

Teaches: music

Peapod MP3 Player

$55, smart toy

Teaches: a music player

Itsy Bitsy Spider-Man

$30, Smart Toy

Teaches: music

CTR Rating: 72%

Noggin (www.noggin.com)

Internet Site

Teaches: rhyming, counting, Music, Art/Creativity, Language

CTR Rating: 90%

Munchkin iCrib Sound System

$29.99, Smart Toy

Teaches: music

CTR Rating: 80%

Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol

$40, PlayStation 2

Teaches: social, working cooperatively, music, creating music, music theory, audio discrimination, rhythm, gross motor, coordination

Giggles Computer Funtime for Baby

$20, Mac OSX, Windows XP

Teaches: casual relationships (cause/effect) colors, shapes, classification, temporal relations, music

CTR Rating: 94%

SmartVille 1-2-3 Treehouse

$39.99, Smart Toy

Teaches: numbers, shapes, colors, animal names & sounds, music, manners, and object & words

CTR Rating: 86%

Piano Wizard

$150, Windows XP, Windows 98 (requires a MIDI keyboard), Mac

Teaches: piano, music, audio discrimination, rhythm, notation, creating music

CTR Rating: 72%

Comfy EasyPC Keyboard

$79.99, Win 98, Win XP

Teaches: language, classification, music

CTR Rating: 84%

Learn-Around Playground

$60

Teaches: music, letters, colors, shapes, classification, causality

Learn Through Music

$34.99, Smart Toy

Teaches: music, signing, colors, animals, memory, letters

Pet Me Platypus

$19.99, Smart Toy

Teaches: music

Music Blocks Maestro

$60, Smart Toy

Teaches: music, patterns

LittleTouch LeapPad

$35, Smart Toy

Teaches: early logic, language, music

LeapStart Learning Table

$39.95, Smart Toy

Teaches: cause & effect, music

Barney's Move 'N Groove Dance Mat

$29.99, Smart Toy

Teaches: music, movement

Jumbo Music Block

$59.99, Smart Toy

Teaches: early math and language, colors, shapes, numbers, music

Toddler Play & Learn

$19.99, Win, Mac

Teaches: colors, shapes, letters, languages, music, creativity

Baby Einstein Series

$24.95, DVD-video

Teaches: music, early learning

eSpecially My Barney

$50, Smart Toy

Teaches: music, early learning, social skills

JumpStart Baby 2000

$20, Win, Mac OS (CD-ROM)

Teaches: music, cause and effect, social skills

Play With the Teletubbies for PlayStation

$20, PlayStation

Teaches: music, rhythms, animals, language

Sound Toys

$19.95, Win 95; Mac OS (CD-ROM)

Teaches: music, creativity

Hug & Learn Baby Tad

$39.95, Smart Toy

Teaches: early learning, cause and effect, exposure to music

PrintMusic!

$69.95, Win 95, 98 (CD-ROM)

Teaches: sheet music utility

Teletubbies 2

$30, Win 95, 98 (CD-ROM)

Teaches: early learning, music, colors, numbers, matching

JumpStart Toddlers (All New Version for 2000)

$20, Win 95, 98; Mac OS (CD-ROM)

Teaches: early learning: colors, shapes, numbers, memory, music

Children's Sing Along

$29.95, Win 95, Win 98 (CD-ROM)

Teaches: music, reading

Music Blocks

$69.95, Smart Toy

Teaches: music, creativity

Actimates Interactive Teletubbies

$59.95, stand alone toy

Teaches: cause and effect, experimentation, musical exposure

Reader Rabbit Toddler 2.0

$29.95, Win 95, Win 3.1, Mac OS (CD-ROM)

Teaches: early reading, sorting objects, letters, music

Great Concert, The

$35, Windows CD-ROM, Mac CD-ROM

Teaches: music (melody, harmony, rhythm)

Baby Felix Creativity Center

$14.98, Win 95, Win 3.1, Mac OS (CD-ROM)

Teaches: music, art, creativity, colors, shapes