By Role Mommy Writer, Danielle Feigenbaum
Memorial Day Weekend kicks off summer travel for many people. You may be packing up the car for for a road trip, hopping on a train or getting ready to board a plane. Wherever you go and however you get there, you will want to make sure you are prepared with activities for your kids. Here is where Fingerprint comes in and saves the day.
There are over 25 educational apps to chose from with more on the way by the end of the year! The Fingerprint platform is a first-of-its-kind hub for learning and fun that offers multiplayer gaming features and enhanced safe social capabilities for children as young as 3 years old. The platform is a portal to Fingerprint’s expanding library of great educational games that promote early reading, character values, finance/money skills, music and so much more.
Fingerprint is a three time family choice award winner and 2013 iKids winner. With apps from your kids favorite TV shows such as Sid the Science Kid and more, you will be ok with letting your kids play away because they are learning and using their imagination.
Below are some of the apps that my kids loved (they are ages 9 and 6).
With Scribble My Story, kids can illustrate their own audio stories or create a book based on Fingerprint’s wildy popular Big Kid Life or Whole Wide World Adventure.
A collection of 4 Step-by-Story apps: The Goofy Gift, Thanks for the Franks, Larry’s Missing Music and I am the Hero!
There are new apps coming out all the time, all reasonably priced. It’s good, clean learning fun! So click here and start downloading right away! Happy Travels!
Fingerprint is giving away 4 iPad Minis to one lucky family!
Fingerprint is the first kids’ mobile learning and entertainment platform, providing sharing and engagement opportunities between kids and parents across mobile devices and the web. The Fingerprint platform invites kids to explore and discover learning game apps on their own and then share the fun with their grown-ups via the one-of-a kind, in-app Mom Comm.
Every Fingerprint Play app, whether first-party or ‘fingerprinted’ by third-party developers, is selected to promote academic, social, and emotional skills with a heavy dose of just plain fun. Fingerprint offers an easy-to-integrate SDK that allows 3rd Party Content Developers to participate in the network.
Most Fingerprint Play apps are free to play, with an option to enhance and extend the experience for an additional charge as your child further engages with the App. Fingerprint is currently available on iOS platforms (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad), and will expand to Android devices in early 2013.
There are currently 15 Apps available including top titles like – Big Kid Life Firefighter with non-stop logic and math action, Whole Wide World which introduces kids to history, culture and geography, and DoReMi 1-2-3 which inspires creativity through music. Every Fingerprint Play App whether first party or ‘fingerprinted’ by third party developers is selected to promote academic, social and emotional skills with a heavy dose of fun.
Here are the new apps being released throughout the month:
Scribble My Story (ages 3-8): Based on the award-winning Scribble Press app for iPad, this new app lets the youngest readers write, illustrate, and customize their own stories. Kids can customize their very own audio stories or create a book based on Fingerprint’s wildly popular Big Kid Life or Whole Wide WorldAdventure. (iPad only)
Green$treets: Unleash the Loot! (ages 5-8): The brainchild of Neale Godfrey, creator and leader in the “Kids and Money” field and bestselling author, this app teaches kids goal setting, budgeting, the value of money, and financial decision making while saving the planet. (Available now)
Panda Panda No More Mess (ages 3-6): A fun sorting game and interactive book that teaches shapes and colors. Children help Panda, a happy little bear armed with a vacuum, clean up by dragging and dropping toys, blocks, clothes and even snacks into the right toy chests.
Step-by-Story: The VeggieTales Collection® (ages 3-6): Featuring the beloved characters from VeggieTales, this Step-by-Story collection helps kids associate words, sounds and pictures in preparation for reading. Plus, the apps focus on key character values (i.e., share your gifts, use your imagination, make new friends). The new collection includes The Goofy Gift, Thanks for the Franks, Larry’s Missing Music, and I am That Hero!
For your chance to win this great prize, simply go the website, fingerprintplay.com and enter! The winner will be picked on December 7th, so enter now!
The Company:
Fingerprint Digital is a San Francisco-based mobile entertainment company for kids. It was founded in 2010 by Nancy MacIntyre, a former executive at Leap Frog, and K2 Media Labs. They launched their first kids’ edutainment platform, Fingerprint Play, in December 2011, with a mission to help kids grow through learning made fun. To date, kids have played over 34 million minutes on the Fingerprint platform.