Best Educational Kindle Apps for Kids
I’ve told you before how much I love using a Kindle with our homeschooled kids. There is so much educational content available, and much of it is free.
Best Educational Kindle Apps for Kids
I love this version of the popular game because I don’t need to worry about Bug playing with anyone else. When he uses the pocket edition, he can focus on building and playing- we use the game to reenforce his lessons, he can build scenes from his books, historical buildings, and so much more right there in the game.
Help your child learn geography the easy way with this game!
This is one of Emmy’s favorite apps. It contains a bunch of silly picture books, and it reads the stories aloud to her. She is able to follow along and pick out the words on the pages.
This app is much more detailed than an elementary student needs, but the models are beautifully done, and fascinating to my kids.
This is our favorite foreign language app. Learning is easy- you translate as you go, and pick up new words quickly. Even my 7 year old has been able to practice his Spanish skills using this program.
Drawing PadThis is awesome to use for scratch paper, or writing practice for the little kids. We bring the app out for spelling dictation, math facts practice, and of course, to just draw and play!
We’ve used the desktop based Starfall website for years with the kids, but this program is so much more enjoyable on the Kindle. Emmy is able to better manipulate the games when she doesn’t need to use a mouse.
This has to be the coolest app I have ever seen. It teaches algebra, through the use of a fun puzzle-like game. It’s designed in such a way that even your 5-6 year old’s can learn algebra. Don’t discount it for older kids, your 10-12 year old’s will have a lightbulb moment using this app.
These tutorials are wonderful for kids and adults alike- bring out some scratch paper and this app, and start drawing!
An interactive star map!
Your Teacher Advanced Math Apps
This program is best for older students (think High School) or for your own math skills as the teacher. I loved the YourTeacher app when I was studying to take the GRE a couple months ago, and I believe I can thank it for the score I wa
s able to get. Video lessons are a keeper!
Speaking of video lessons, don’t forget Kahn Academy! This app is not associated with the website, but it does lay out all the lessons in an easy to follow system so your child can find exactly what they need, when they need it.
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Do you want to give your child a Kindle for Christmas?
These apps have made a world of difference in our homeschool. Between being able to read and watch unlimited books and videos, to using the immersion reading feature, we are constantly using our Kindles in one way or another.
Here is your lucky chance to get one for free! I’ve teamed up with some amazing bloggers to offer a massive giveaway! We have six Kindles up for grabs, and all you need to do is use the widget below to enter to win!
Good information. Educational kindle apps for kids are very beneficial. Thank you for sharing this information!
Educational apps are always helpful for kids as they help in using their brain in an innovative way .
My son would love to have a kindle fire! He loves to read as much as I do.
I’d like to read some e-books and play some fun games on the kindle!
We are looking forward to reading books on the Kindle if we won. Thank you for the opportunity to win!
Taking my books on the go and letting my 5 year old have educational apps to advance his reading.
Would love to have a Kindle for my grandson! I have just recently signed him up on the ABCMouse.com site, he is 3 and a half years old and loves to be read to! A Kindle would be awesome as we could read while Papa is sleeping and not have to worry about the light keeping him awake! It would also be awesome to take on the road with us as we are constantly in the truck with our business.
Ugh! Just noticed CAPS LOCK was on when I filled out my name! Maybe I could use the Kindle to download some pointers on how to operate my keyboard! 😉
I’d love to have one to use with my 7 yr old to help with his reading skills.
I’d like to try Minecraft
reading! lots of reading! and taking better advantage of my amazon prime membership!
Helping my niece learn to read!
We would use it for reading as well.
I would use it in our homeschool. I read about all these educational apps and would love to be able to use them.
reading on the go definitely
Reading! Reading and more Reading!
Oh I would love to use it for Ebooks! Our little one is just starting to read, and would love to get some Ebooks!
This would be awesome for homeschool!
So many interesting apps! I would love a Kindle 🙂
Our 7 y o daughter loves to read so much, this would be the best present for her. Her birthday is coming soon!!
I’m new to your blog, but I’m loving it! Thanks for all the freebies, suggestions, and entries to win great products! 🙂
I am most excited that my kids will have more educational options than playing one of those handheld game consoles! The Kindle Fire is a far better option for them!
Taking pictures and loading educational apps that I can’t load on my phone.
If I won a kindle fire, one of my kids wouldreceive it!
Literacy on the go! Perfect!
I would love to win one for my 6yo daughter. She would love to have one to read books on and learn on.
We started homeschooling this year and would love to use a Kindle!
Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Those apps look great! Especially the Starfall app. Both of my kids (4 and 6) love looking at the stars. They get so proud of themselves when they find the Big Dipper. 🙂
I would mostly read with the kindle but my daughter would probably love the games. I wonder if you can get Cool Math on one.
I want to find math apps for my daughter to solidify those math facts!
I’m looking forward to reading books and checking email while on vacation. And maybe watching Amazon Prime videos! kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.
Reading books – and there are so many free ones I would love to have somewhere to download and read!
I would love to check out some educational apps to use with homeschooling. All four of my kids would be able to find something to enjoy and learn from. I have the reader app on my laptop so I know my kids would have access to lots of free classic e-books that my older children would be able to use for reading time.
Lots of good educational use!
I would look forward to watching my daughters discover the world through books.
If we’d win I’m looking forward to listening to my daughters read stories to me with the Kindle.
6 sons, we would love another scree!! Especially one that reads to you and can get all those cool apps!!!
I would love to read my boys stories from the kindle.
I didn’t know about all the apps available for kindle. I would love to check some of them out for my kiddo.
hours of Minecraft on road trips
I would love to check out some of these apps you suggested, and also download some books!
I am a homeschooling mom of four children from 5th grade to preschool. The thing I am excited about the most is having something they all can use and share. Sometimes it gets a little difficult when one is currently using the computer and the others need to use it. I feel it would help make our days go by smoother. These apps are amazing and would help us a great deal. It would also give us some fun time instead of sticking to book work. They’ll have some fun learning apps they could use as well. I’m sure it would take the pressure off of me trying to constantly find ways to be creative and keep it fun.
I would love to own a kindle fire. I owned a plain kindle many years ago. It would benefit my children also.
There are so many amazing apps available to help educate students. In addition, the Kindle Fire places books in their hands, which makes travelling and homeschooling on the go so much easier. Thank you for this opportunity to win a Kindle Fire!
Downloading books for our son.
Educational apps are definitely a plus, but a kindle is worth having for so many more things as well. It’s the most convenient, easy to use tablet I know.
I would use it to download free educational materials. Michelle Miller
I love to read
If I were to win the Kindle Fire I would use it for my children to share for reading books and playing educational games 🙂
Would love to win as my son’s tablet just died!
thanks for the list!
I was looking at the Amazon site the other day to check out Kindle fire prices for Christmas. This is a great giveaway!!
I would use it to download books!
I am most looking forward to downloading books to read all winter long.
I would love to use the Kindle with my kindergarten students!!
If we won a kindle, we’d absolutely use it for homeschooling our 3 children! 🙂
Wow! I would love to win a Kindle. I want to check out that anatomy app.
My kids don’t have tablets and we homeschool so this would be a great fun and educational edition to our home.
Thanks for the list, good to see ones I dont already use.
I would be most looking forward to reading books on it during breaks, and letting my son use it for educational apps once in a while.
Thank you for the opportunity to try and win one of these. The library has downloadable books and the kids would love to read those on the go!
Thank you for the awesome list of apps.
Winning a Kindle would be a dream come true (for me and for my children)!:) Thank you for teaming up to make this giveaway possible.
I would most like to use it for reading books for our school as well as have educational apps on it for them to play when they have free time.
We would love a Kindle to Fire our children’s imagination.
I would love to have a tablet for my daughter to use for school.
My son would love this! Thanks!
Would love to win!
Would love to have for our oldest. He is reaching an age where he is doing more independent and child led studies.
thanks for the heads up on the Geography game, we hadn’t seen that. I’d love to get this for my Dad who is ill (Alzheimer’s). I think he would do well with some of the simple stories meant for kids and some of the easier games just to keep him alert at times.
This would be awesome to win, I would use it to download educational books, apps, and other educational things for my children.
I would love to use it to replace my daughter’s broken Kindle.
My son uses his for everything and now my daughter would like one too. They both prefer digital books now. One likes the ease, the other likes to control the font size for easier reading.
My girls would love a kindle. We already have a Nook and this would drastically cut down on fighting.
Thanks for all the great app information!! They are a really a wonderful supplement to home education!!!
Awesome giveaway! I can’t wait to try out some of these educational apps 🙂
It would be nice to have an updated Kindle to use for apps.
Would love this!!
i want a kindle for the math and science games.
Reading! I would love to use the Kindle Lending Library!
Thank you so much!
Thank you! Timely post for my niece so I will be sharing this article with her. Love Kindle Fire!
I would use it for homeschooling and reading books.
This looks like a great list of Apps. Thank you!
Kindle would be a great supplement for our homeschooling. We’d love to use the apps as well as read so many great digital books.
I would use it with my Family Children Children and my own.
Everything! But, mostly the reading and geography apps for my 7 th grader.
I’m new to homeschooling this year. I would love a Kindle Fire to help my daughters with their reading and explore some science apps!
I would love it for my class!!
I would love the tablet to read on, which is what I would do the majority of the time. Also, I would let my son play his games on the tablet.
My kids would love the opportunity to use Kindle for schoolwork. The Duolingo app would help my high school student practice French.
I would use the Read Me Stories app on the kindle for my four year old.
I want the fire for my 9 year old to use these neat apps and interactive books
So many uses, so little time! Books for sure, but language learning would also rank way up there!
If I won a Kindle, we would use it to help with homeschooling.
I would use it as a supplement in our homeschooling journey.
I had a fire tablet (that broke) and we loved using it for Spelling City, BrainPop, and just educational fun that tricked the kids into learning!
We love books and apps.
I would use it to help homeschool my 4 children.
Educational apps!! WooHoo!
I can’t keep my kids off my kindle! They have great things for kids. I would to give them one!!!
Books, books, books for the whole family.
I love reading so i would use for that
Books, books and more books for the whole family. And educational apps for the kiddos
I would love this for our homeschooling! We don’t have any kind of tablet but really need one for my kids to use for school work!
To make our homeschool a little more high-tech!
My daughter just turned six in October but other than a trip to Chuck E. Cheese’s, we couldnt get her anything else because we were busy gearing up for her baby brother who was born a week after her birthday. Poor thing was such a trooper, though. We’re very proud of her. Which is why this Kindle would be such a perfect gift for her. She loves books and she loves these math and spelling apps that she plays on my tablet.
I would love to use a kindle for educational purposes and for fun 🙂
We need a kindle so that we can request fewer inter library loans. It must cost them a pretty penny with how many books we have to request each week.
dear friend
I am a home shooling too i live in SAudi Arabia and I am Egyptian
Thank you so much for all what you offer to us from good free teachin websits to good games like this
I hope GodBliss all your efforts.
Blissing to your family
I would love a Kindle for my kids read on, and to download PDFs for school. Great giveaway, thanks!
This is really nice of you all!. I’ve been wanting one to get books for homeschool that our library
doesn’t have. Great library for a small community, but still there are some things you can’t find.
The kids love love love minecraft. Merry Christmas!
I would like to use the educational apps for my kids!
This would be great…my three kids will fight over it…LOL. We are just getting into all the technological stuff so winning one would be great! Thank you very much.
Seeing my girls learn on the Kindle will be so enjoyable. Thanks for the list of apps, too. Already downloaded a couple.
I would love to use it for Khan Academy.
Those apps look fantastic!!
This would be great for my sons and I could have mine back.
I would love for my kids to learn while playing on the Kindle!
I would love to get my kids started on Dragon box!
I can’t wait for my kids to have their own kindle fire so they will leave my iPad alone!!!!
I’m looking forward to giving my kids some screen time in 2016. Not having to share the Kindle will make that easier!!
Would love to have one so my son could do educational things while I’m at the doctor’s office.
I look forward to reading books and listening to audiobooks! 🙂
I would love to win one for my sons for Christmas!
My son loves to read, It will be a great present for him.
I cant wait to read with my munchkin!
I want to see my daughter fall in love with reading and choosing books for herself.
Would love the convenience to read more books and also share it with my kids! Love your website!
I love how you can share books across multiple devices under the same account. Love Kindle, just don’t want to share my husband’s one anymore!
Watch my children use educational apps to improve their skills that they’ve been learning from home/school.
I want to transfer my son’s ebook library as his old tablet no longer works and he loves to read.
I want to play with my granddaughter.
Reading ebooks and other educational activities.
I take care of children in my home and would love to be able to have a kindle for them to be able to play educational games. I have a school age boy who would love to be able to use a kindle. He has told me that he wished that he had one of his own.
Thank you so much for this opportunity!! My kids would love this!
Thank you for a chance to win. It’s a great giveaway as a single mom it never hurts to take a chance..Just might win..
I would love for my kids to have a tablet dedicated for their use. We homeschool and use several online/app-based learning tools. A tablet would make it so much easier than moving to the computer and using the mouse.
Thanks so much for this opportunity! I can’t wait to have a tablet to help my kids maximize what they’re learning!
I look forward to getting some books and educational games for the kids.
This is so awesome!!
What I would love to do most with the Fire Tablet is learning activities with our granddaughter!
Everything that is educational and fun would be downloaded!! hahaha, This tablet would essentially be hers, but with access for grandma when needed!!
Thank you so very much for this incredible opportunity!! Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!
Sincerely, Danielle
What a fantastic give away! Our homeschool crew would love to use a kindle everyday!
A Kindle Fire would certainly help my kids get access to more books. I have four kids and having devices to be able to have more than one kid working at a time would be super helpful!
Thanks for the chance to win! It would help out so much our kindle died and we live pay check to pay check since my husband is now the only one working, I had to stop working to take care and home school our son because of medical issues !
I look forward to my child being able to use the Kindle for education.
You guys are awesome for doing this, especially right before Christmas! I have a Kindle paperwhite for myself, but we’ve been wanting to try a fire tab.
Thank you so much for the chance to win! I am sure that we would use it everyday with the kids in their school day!
🙂 Happy Thanksgiving
KINDLE=KINDNESS – from you!!!
My students will benefit from being able to use all of the terrific sites that you have so kindly introduced me to. You have made me so excited about wanting to use them with my students. Please make this happen for us. My students will look forward to having this wonderful KINDLE to bless our classroom!!!!!
I plan to let my kids use it for educational apps, and probably some just plain fun stuff.
Wow. I had no idea Starfall had an app. Curious to check out the algebra app too. Overwhelmed by this list.
I’m looking forward to having audio books and books. It’ll save lots of shelf space!
Wow this giveaway could not have come at a better time!! We are beginning our homeschooling journey next month (ahhh! I’m so nervous!). I have been looking into purchasing some sort of kindle/ipad/tablet so that I can put a bunch of educational games on it. I’ve read a lot about Duolingo and am happy to hear that you love it. I will definitely be looking into the other apps you mentioned too. A new kindle would be such a wonderful surprise to get us started on this new journey. Thanks for the opportunity!
I would use the Kindle Fire for my boys. They could play games and watch videos.
This is awesome! Thank you!
Great giveaway!
The look on my 10yo’s face when she’d unwrap it for her birthday next month.
We would love a Kindle Fire! I think we would start with one of the language learning apps like the DuoLingo suggested above!
Thanks for the opportunity 🙂
Thanks so much!
What an awesome giveaway! My kids can’t get enough of Minecraft and the Starfall app is a big hit too!
I would love to see my son get this on Christmas morning!
Thank you so much for the chance to win one of the fire tablets. What I will do with the tablet is upload all the great apps that you have mentioned and then put other cool apps that I have been wanting to use for our homeschool. I have been trying to put enough money together to buy one but everytime I have to buy something else. Thanks for the chance.
Seeing my son open this on Christmas morning! And all the awesome educational stuff plus books I can put on it!
This would be so awesome
What a great giveaway! I love the geography game and love that there are so many great apps we can utilize
My daughter loves starfall. Would love a Kindle to help her work on her letters and so many other things.