Felt Board vs Puppet Pals 2

Design scenes, dress up characters and let your imagination soar as you invent your own stories with Felt Board. Especially designed for imaginative play, storytelling and learning, Felt Board is perfect for children, families, teachers and therapists. Create characters by selecting skin color, hair and facial features. Choose from a wide variety of costumes, settings and props for hours of magical make believe play. And because it is an app, the pieces will never get lost. Recently updated with all new images, Felt Board now also includes a gallery to save and edit Felt Board designs.

 Whether used by children as a creative play set, or by adults as a storytelling resource and teaching aid, Felt Board offers a variety of benefits for children, including: - A simple user interface that allows independent exploration - A wide variety of characters and settings to encourage creativity and imaginative play - Fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination skills are developed while dragging, placing and pinching objects to scale - Colorful shapes, Letters and Numbers are included as an educational resource - Pattern block shapes that can be rotated to make geometric designs - Varied facial expressions to discuss emotions of characters - Community helpers characters and vehicles - Pieces for popular preschool and nursery songs, stories and rhymes including 5 Little Monkeys, Old MacDonald, Itsy Bitsy Spider, 3 Billy Goats Gruff and more Winner Best Kids Toy App, 2012 Best App Ever Awards

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What reviewers are saying: 

“One of my favorite apps for early learning.” – Childcareland 

“The kindergarten teacher in me is doing cartwheels and flips over my latest app find: Felt Board by Software Smoothie.” – The Orange County Register, OC Moms 

“We love the open-ended nature of this app with plenty of backgrounds to keep your child engaged.” – Kindertown

 “Felt Board is a lovely app for iPad, a charming simulated rendition of a traditional felt board…” – Giggle Apps 

“LOVE, love, love this app from Software Smoothie!” – The iPhone Mom 

“This app has a variety of benefits for children with Special Needs.” – Somewhere Over the Spectrum 

“Little kids and big kids alike will love this app..” – Four Monkeys 4 Me 

“The sky’s the limit with this brilliant app.” – Storytiming Flannel Friday 

“I see all sorts of uses for this app – It’s great for fine motor practice, imaginary play, as a stimulus speech practice and for storytelling, but above all it is fun and creative.” – The iMum 

“An excellent app to share with your loved ones…” – Apps 4 Moms 

“A rare gem in a sea of fool’s gold…” – Pre-K Pages

• “Puppet Pals is an amazing app that lets you create animated cartoons.” -David Pogue (NewYork Times) Children unlock creativity with this easy to use (but hard to put down) interactive puppet show! Even young children can create high quality cartoons from their imaginations. Kids can even star in the show along side the built-in characters! Teachers: Engage students by allowing them to act out historical events, practice language skills, or deliver a killer book report. The cartoons that kids are making have delighted thousands of teachers and parents around the world - let yours be next to experience this award-winning digital addition to your classroom. The finished projects are easily shared to be watched by others (share via email, Facebook, or simply copy the video file to your computer and distribute how you see fit - Hint: students love to see their work displayed on a classroom blog). • Create short instructional videos (in any learning area) • Storytelling, Reports, Historic Retells • Help reluctant public speakers present to the class • Help foreign language or ESL students practice their fluency & language skills • Brainstorming or storyboarding ideas and presentations Characters chosen from standard curriculum allow kids to fully engage with content - not even realizing they are actually learning valuable lessons that will stay with them for years to come!