Some of The Best Halloween Apps

Time for some spooktacular fun during this Halloween season! Here are some good Halloween apps to use with kids and young learners to engage them in immersive Halloween-inspired learning experiences. The apps provide interactive games, puzzles, engaging stories, and creative activities to try out in class or at home.  

The purpose is to create out of this beautiful event a fun  learning opportunity for kids and help them further to sharpen their skills and develop key literacy competencies. For more, check out these educational Halloween resources. 

1- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow iC (Age 12+)

iClassics brought the classic American tale, Legend of Sleepy Hollow to life using interaction, animations, and illustrations. Some of the main features of the app include: 80 sound effects, 67 animations, 50 interactive scenes, 53 minute soundtrack 52 illustrations and more. Students can use the table of contents to easily jump to any page in the book. They can also use the Memory pages to bookmark their pages and more.

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: $3.99 / Age: 4+

2- Berenstain Bears - Ghost Walk (Ages 4-8)

In this interactive Ebook, kids join the Berenstain Bears as they prepare for the Bear Country School's halloween ghost walk. Students can record their own narration to personalize the story. As they engage with the book, students will get to develop key literacy skills and learn new vocabulary with tappable words and pictures, and many more. 

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: $3.99 / Age: 4+

4- Weirdwood Manor (Ages 9-11)

This is a story of 3 kids each one of them has marvellous skills. Oliver, the orphan kid, is skilled at drawing; Celia is a gifted writer, and Eugene loves making gadgets. "The children win a trip to Weirdwood Manor to meet their reclusive hero — the eccentric writer and inventor, Arthur Weirdwood. 

Naturally, there’s also a robot butler, a ghost boy who haunts the Manor, and a librarian with more than a couple secrets of her own to hide." The purpose of the story is to 'to inspire children to celebrate their uniqueness, recognize their talents, and embrace their imagination.'

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad  / Price: Free / Age: 4+

5- Halloween Car: Kids Game( Ages 6-8)

This is an excellent Halloween Art game which allows kids to engage in creative drawing experiences. The "app comes with 30+ tutorials that walk you through the process step-by-step, or allows you to draw a car freely as you wish. You can decorate the car with thirteen different colors.

Other add-ons include 25 sets of tires that can be customized in size and spacing, a lots halloween-theme stickers and lights for more flair. Once You are happy with their vehicle, you can then use it on one of 21 roads. Each road is a mini game and there are spooky obstacles to watch out for along the way!"

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+

6- Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Ages 9-11)

Another immersive and interactive game where kids get to dress in their favourite Halloween character, carve a pumpkin and join their peers as they trick-or-treat. Some of its main features include: numerous combinations to design  your own Halloween-themed costume and character; includes sounds and music from the 1966 animated classic; it supports word and note highlighting,  hear individual words spoken with a single click, an integrated bookmarking feature to easily jump to any page in the book, and many more.

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: $4.99 / Age: 4+

7- StoryToys Haunted House (Age 4+)

StoryToys is full of spooktacular activities and games. As kids explore the haunted house, they get to meet monsters, play games, and work on challenges to win 'spooktastic badges and stars'.  Some of its features include: play aerial tag with flying dragons and grisly goblins; bat away flying balls of slimy goo as the monsters go wild!; test your memory with a monstrous game of matching pairs; spot 10 hidden pumpkins as you search for the Haunted House on a dark and stormy night...and more.

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: $1.99 / Age: 4+

8. Carve-a-Pumpkin

Carve-a-Pumpkin allows kids to carve their own jack-o-lanterns and have fun as they create their own pumpkins. In fact, the app can be used by adults and kids alike. It offers five different pumpkin styles  to choose from. Kids have the option to either carve their own shapes or pick pre-made ones from the app's library. Once ready, kids add their message and share their creation with others.

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad / Price: Free/ Age: 4+

9. Halloween WordSearch

Halloween WordSearch is a halloween app that engages kids in fun and spooky learning activities. The app offers challenging Halloween-themed puzzles to help kids grow and enrich their (Halloween) vocabulary. Puzzles come to life with stunning backgrounds, spooky words and ghoulish soundtrack. "So forget about Trick or Treat - search out those words on your iPhone or iPod Touch and enjoy WordSearch the way it was meant to be - Halloween style!"

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad  / Price: Free / Age: 4+

10. Halloween Coloring Book

Halloween Coloring book allows kids to practice and enjoy colouring various Halloween themed elements including funny monsters, ghosts, witches, and many more.The app offers over 30 coloring pages for kids to work on using pencils, brushes, crayons, numerous colours, and more. Besides colouring, kids can also draw, paint, and decorate their artworks the way they want. Once done, they can save and share their artwork with others.

Compatibility: Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+

11. Halloween Kids Toddlers Games

This is an amazing game that allows kids 2 to 5 to entertain themselves as they cook pumpkins and fly broomstick to catch bats. The game includes over 50 kinds of food for kids to experiment with. It also includes amazing graphics, sound effects, and animations. As kids play the games, they get to develop their attention, visual memory, and fine motor skills.

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+

12. Plants vs. Zombies

Plants vs. Zombies is an engaging game in which kids get to use their limited greens and seeds reserves to soil plants and eliminate zombies before they break in into their doors. The game is full of suspense and fun. There are 26 types of zombies prying around and ready to attack. 

Kids mission is to use their zombie-zapping plants to abort zombies attention before it takes place. As the fight with zombies gets heated, kids draw back on their thinking skills to find solutions and use their arsenal of plants strategically. 

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+

This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

Some of The Best Halloween Apps