Toca Boca
This delightful series of children's "toy" apps let your child build a robot and navigate a simple maze, snip, wash and colour funny character's hair (even a Christmas tree), serve up cake on a birthday table, form a band and - a bit more advanced - design clothes down to fabric choice, style and accessories.
These games feature colourful characters and are mostly really simple (Toca Robot Lab, Toca Tea Party), some creative (Toca Paint My Wings) and some more advanced but my 3-year-old loves all of them.
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Cost: Free to $2.99. Phone and tablet. Get them on iTunes.
Wombii
Another series of fantastic apps to let your child's creativity fly. Build a helicopter or plane, go on a treasure hunt adventure, make and serve ice cream to order (a great memory game), solve a mystery, repair broken toys – all fun and really simple.
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Cost: Free to $2.99. Phone and tablet. Get them on iTunes.