With some paper, glue, tape, scissors, paint, and toilet rolls it is very nice to make something like this.

And when you have a very lightweight ball, like one from your table tennis set, you can have a maze blowing competion. The one that gets the ball through the fastest by only blowing is the winner.

Don’t have enough breath to do so? Craft yourself a stick as well and play a game of maze minigolf.

As you may or may not know: we give away a freebie with every app we launch! Not an electronical freebie, but something printable. To hang on the wall or to enjoy at the kitchen table. With the launch of Just Colors we will give away this fun little color catching game… for some serious offline gaming

The Color Catching Game

The gameplay is ridiculously simple:

• Gather your kids and craft the dice.
• Then choose and craft your favourite pawn.
• Set up the board and… roll the dice!

The first player who reaches the outside of the circle wins. Sounds childish to you? Don’t worry, we built in two extra set of rules for true dare devils and master minds….

Great for all those moments when your iDevices are down or when you just want to enjoy a nice family moment at the kitchen table.

Want this free printable Color Catching Game?

We’re giving it away to all of our newsletter subscribers.

Sign up for our newsletter here!

Cool and cute, this picture of the Big Bad Wolf showing off his lopsided teeth!
And that makes Wolf Rot the absolute winner of our Theater Contest - he will receive  a beautiful handcrafted paper doll of himself. Plus we’ll send him the digital file, so he can print as many paper Wolfs as he wants.

Congratulations Wolf!

Thanks all for sending in your lovely pictures – it was hard picking the best one, to be honest…

Bonus Prize for all of you

This is not the early 80s – the winner does NOT take it all.
We have designed this wonderful BONUS PRIZE for all of you: a paper mask of the Strong Man, looking very smart. (Sorry, the curls are not included, they belong to Appracadabra’s Chief Design Director Xander.)

Wanna print & make these masks?
You can download them RIGHT HERE! In the PDF you will find:

… and a paper mask of the Big Bad Wolf too, just for the heck of it!

Download the Theater Mask Printable right here, please!

That’s it! Our Photo Contest is finished – from now on you can only vote for your favorites, not upload anymore photos… Too bad for us – we loved finding your quirky, funny, beautiful, cute pictures in our mailbox!

May we have your votes, please?

Did you see all images that were sent in? A flatfaced werewolf (or the one above, with its lopsided teeth ), a masked Prince, a very pensieve Strong Man, a pouty butterfly fairy queen, the cutest little Mermaid and Little Red Riding Hood – to name just a few!

Will you help us picking a winner?
You can find all contestants of Theater Contest on our Facebook Page, and that’s where you can vote too!

Yeehaw! Our educational game app Just Colors for kids is now available on the AppStore!

Just Colors: go on a hunt & create your own book of colors!

From a yellow bus to that cute chocolate brown kitten – by snapping pictures of colorful objects, kids create their own book of colors!

Start with basic colors like red, yellow and blue, or discover subtler hues like violet and turquoise. Run around the house and photograph your fire truck for ‘red’, then go outside and snap a picture of the sky for ‘blue’. Or take the hunting game a bit further: who finds a carmine car first?

Great color hunting and learning app for kids aged two and up!

FEATURES

• 23 color flash cards
• camera option to create your own custom cards
• switch off the voice-over and guide your child yourself
• switch on the voice-over and let your child play by itself
• intuitive, kid-friendly gameplay
• contains 21 languages, from Arabic to Portuguese to Swiss German and many more

The intuitive gameplay empowers kids to document their world – and parents to review and talk about their color choices. Just Colors is a great app for learning together.

This is a Kind Kids App. It does not contain in-app purchase, advertisements, external links, hidden tracking software or social network integration.

Just Colors is available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch – GO GET IT NOW!

And please let us know what you think about it – leave a review! We would appreciate that very much.

Happy color hunting!

Almost time… after the weekend we’ll be launching Just Colors, our 4th kid’s app!

Just Colors is a great way to teach your kids about colors. Set out on a color hunt and take photographs of colorful objects. Photographed all 23 colors? Then your kid has created its own personalised book of colors – pretty neat, no?

‘Just Colors’ is great for kids aged two and up. The intuitive gameplay empowers kids to document their world – and parents to review and talk about their color choices. Just Colors is a great app for learning together.

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If you’d like to know when it’s available, please sign up for our newsletter and we’ll keep you posted.

Do sign up, here, we’ll be sending all subscribers this oldskool paper board game. All your iDevices occupied or out of power? No worries… just go on a color hunt with your kids with this Color Catching Game!

Happy weekend for now and do make sure to check us out on Monday November 12th…

UPDATE: We have made it even more easy to participate in our contest: you can now also mail us your picture at contest@appracadabra.com

Want to be able to move your limbs in all directions – without becoming a yoga pro?
Enter our photo contest: the winner gets a beautiful handcrafted paper doll of himself!
Plus we’ll send you the digital file, so you can print as many paper doll as you want.

Photo Contest Theater

How to enter our Theater Photo Contest: 5 easy steps

Entering the contest is easy. All you need is our app Theater and a little creativity.
Don’t have Theater yet? Not to worry: you can download it for free!

1. Download our app Theater for FREE (october 29th – november 4th)
2. Open Theater and go to the Options menu:
   - select the ragdoll icon
   - select your favorite actor
   - click on the camera
3. Make a fun, scary or cool portrait of yourself!
   everything is allowed: pulling absurd faces, serious face painting, masks – get creative!
4. Your picture is now available in the Camara Roll of your iDevice.
   mail us your picture: contest@appracadabra.com
   or put the picture on Facebook yourself:
   - go to our page Appracadabra Facebook
   - select the Contest App in the top right corner
   - upload your picture from your computer
   You can upload as many pictures as you like!
5. Hope to win!
   Get all your friends, family, neighbours to vote for your picture – the more votes, the merrier!
   Please note that a jury will pick the winner – we’re a picky bunch, we do appreciate the vote of the public too.

The grand prize

Get inspired – follow us!

Download free play kid’s app Theater for free!

Go on a color hunt!

From a yellow bus to a chocolate brown kitten – with Just Colors your kids create their own color guide. Watch them run around the house, snap pictures of colorful objects and learn the colors while they’re at it!

Learn basic colors – or more subtle hues!

Just Colors is great for kids aged 2 and up. Start with basic colors like red, yellow and blue, or let them discover subtler hues like violet and turquoise.

Create your own custom color cards

Each color flash card comes with an example picture of an object in that color. And here’s the fun part: hunt for an object in that color in your own house and replace the picture! Who finds a red thing first? Learn colors in a playful way!

Review colors together

The intuitive gameplay empowers kids to color document their world – and parents to review and talk about their choices. Just Colors is a great app for learning colors – together!

23 colors – in 20 different languages!

Just Colors will be available in 20 languages, from Arabic to Portuguese to Swiss German and many more!

Can’t wait to go color hunting?

Just Colors will be available on the AppStore pretty soon. We’ll be sure to send out a newsletter the moment we launch – keep a close eye on your mailbox!

Can’t wait any longer?
We’ve got you covered… We will be posting a video trailer of Just Colors to this blog soon!

Loving this vintage paper car! Thinking of changing my name into Bas Bomo and make a life sized version of it… Now that would be a nice autumn craft, no?

Like it? You can find it at Agence Eureka’s wonderful blog, right here!

Here in Holland it’s ‘socks-out-of-the-closet’-weather. That term was invented by our Swiss girl Marlis, but effectively explains the situation. Loads of people in the street, wearing cosy socks in their flipflops… It’s wet and warm, here in Holland!

Personally I’m looking forward to autumn: the colors, the rain, the wind – I love ‘em all. Plus: you get to spend more time inside, curling up with a book and a cup of tea – or with the kids

Check out our posts on teaching kids how to draw or baking dinosaur cookies together. Or head over to the Kind Kids App Rules Fanpage, right here, where we share 5 great activities to do with the kids – each week.

Check out our five fall tips?

Check for the links to the tutorials and more quality crafts on the Kind Kids App Fanpage - craft & play! I really like this vintage coloring plate – how cute.

Support our quest for high quality kid apps: sign the rules!

As said, our kids love apps. We love apps too. But we found it hard to find really great apps. In our own language. So we decided to publish our own. And we launched the Kind Kids App Rules – a set of 10 rules to which we believe a good app should comply. We have found more publishers like us – you can find their outstanding kid’s apps here.

Want to help us create more high quality kids apps? Please show your support, hop over to www.kindkidsapprules.com and sign the Rules!

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(coloring page via Raising Our Kids)