It is very likely that Christmas will kill me and while I am using iPhone to track present shopping I really was hoping for some cool Christmas applications. My “Free App Review Week” didn’t work out quite as I planned (house remodel, work crisis) I figured free Christmas apps was my next target.
I searched high and low and first decent free Christmas app I could download was called SantaCookies. The idea is cute; you decorate cookies to be left for Santa. The start function is straight forward; you just touch the screen and are in the app. At first I had some trouble figuring out that to decorate the cookies you had to press the cookie decorations in the bottom navigation. The tricky part was that the decorations would appear in the middle of the four cookies to be decorated, when I was looking to drag it up to the spot I wanted to place it. I showed Wormie and she got it right away. Her bad habits had not been trained like mine.
Wormie spent a good 15 minutes playing with the app the first time I gave it to her. After her initial session she never spent much time with the application again. There were additional little features like you can leave a note for Santa and save the cookies you decorated to your photo album but those were not of any interest to Wormie. Overall I would rate this as a good free download with some seasonal appeal but in the larger scheme of things it will get deleted shortly after the holidays.
Age Range: 3-5
Difficulty: 3/5 (5 being easy)
Look & Feel : 3/5 (5 being cool)
Parent Helper: 2/5 (5 being helpful)
Price:Free
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