Baby's Playful Hands
© 2013 Streaming Colour Studios
The follow up to Baby's Musical Hands (Editor's Choice, CTR August 2011), this app turns your iPad into a multi-touch musical toy that is a good developmental match for a young baby -- or a cat. This app is most noteworthy for what it doesn't do... any tap on one of the 15 colored squares will play musical notes, while stars burst from your fingertips. The app is designed to allow babies to explore musical relationships. Content includes six instrument sounds. Because the sounds and colors change at random, feelings of control are reduced. It would be better if these could be controlled in a parents menu. The app uses a pentatonic music scale that means notes work together, and there are no ads or in-app purchases.
$0.99, iPad, iPhone, iPhone Touch
Teaches: causality, music
CTR Rating: 80%