“Imagine all the benefits of a felt board without having to worry about the pieces getting dirty or lost. What if you never had to search through all of your “teaching stuff” to find a particular felt board story again? What if your students could have access to all of your felt board stories all the time? The Felt Board app offers all this and much more. Novelties aside, the biggest benefits the Felt Board app offers to young learners is open-ended exploration and creativity- a rare gem in a sea of fool’s gold. The simplicity and ease of use are refreshing.”
“Have to admit, I wasn’t sure if I would like this concept in the new digital format. Turns out, this app is spectacular! Unlike traditional felt boards, this digital version offers many opportunities for customization due to it’s large selection of characters, props and backgrounds. Every felt board “set” ever is included in one app! Having all conceivable options covered, this app excels at fostering creativity, promotes storytelling, and brings imaginative play back to the forefront as its main purpose. With all that going for it, Felt board is a must have for any iPad being used by the younger set.”
“Felt Board for iPad uses life-like felt cut-outs to encourage storytelling without all the mess. Drag and drop people, clothing and objects to create a tale of your own. We love the open-ended nature of the app with plenty of backgrounds and pieces to keep your child engaged. An excellent app for sharing stories both in the classroom and at home!”
“One of my favorite apps for early learning. There are so many things you can do with this digital felt board.”
“I love all of the choices in this app. My 4 year old spent almost 10 minutes creating 2 people complete with hair, facial expressions, clothing, shoes, and accessories of all kinds including glasses, hats, umbrellas, wands and more.”
Applicable2U:
“Upon entering this application, users will immediately get a craft like feeling as every aspect of this educational app is created with felt. Use your fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills to develop amazing stories as you tap, drag, drop, pinch and zoom pieces into a scene. Felt Board for iPad is a very user friendly application for children young and old. It is an application that encourages all learning styles as children can work collaboratively or independently… When projected on a large screen in small or large groups, children can verbalize their stories to classmates, parents or educators. Regardless of who creates the stories, this form of storytelling encourages further discussions on the elements of a story: characters, setting, plot and such. In addition, developers also encourage users to create stories that include letters and numbers. For example, users can spell and place their name on scenes created. If working on a “letter of the week” tell a story centered around that letter. An alternative option would be as children understand numbers, tell a number story. Your child or student(s) story becomes a visual story problem to reinforce appropriate grade level operations.”
Apps 4 Moms:
“Felt Board is an excellent app to share with your loved ones; it enhances creativity, storytelling, and imaginative play. It is one app that will definitely entertain you and your kids again and again, and is well worth it’s small price tag.”
“The sky’s the limit with this brilliant app. It’s easy to use, and populated with all the building blocks to make ton of storytime standards/favorites.”
“Felt Board is a lovely app for iPad, a charming simulated rendition of a traditional felt board… I recommend this app to anyone interested in art or craft applications. The selection of felt pieces is wonderful and I enjoy being able to change backgrounds under the other pieces already laid down, something that could never be accomplished with such ease on a traditional board. I can imagine not only a great activity for children, but also in aiding the storytelling for all ages. For these reasons and more, I recommend this app.”
“LOVE, love, love this app from Software Smoothie! Felt Board puts a Felt Board on your iPad. All the fun of felt board sets without countless pieces to keep track of. I am really liking this app and so is my youngest Miss J.”
“This app doesn’t feel Hi-Tec at all and that is it’s beauty – its very open ended, creative play where kids (and adults!) can just use their imagination. I can see all sorts of uses for this app -it is great for fine motor practice, imaginary play, as a stimulus speech practice and for storytelling, but above all it is fun and creative.”
“Use the app to create characters and stories, which furthers a child’s imagination and artistic play. Use the facial expressions to demonstrate emotions to a child and allow your child to describe what is going on in the picture or how a particular character feels (this use of the Felt Board app is particularly helpful for children with autism).”
<"Muy entretenido y bien hecho... Es la típica aplicación sencilla que los niños utilizan mucho porque tiene muchas posibilidades, pueden crear sus propios juegos, historias, pero también aprender a contar o las letras (con un poco de ayuda por vuestra parte)."
“Very entertaining and well done… This is a typical simple application that children use much because it has many possibilities, can create their own games, stories, but also learn to count or letters (with a little help from you).”
“Little kids and big kids a like will love this app (heck, I know an adult or two who will just love this too!) Use it to teach feelings and emotions, tell stories, use it to create social stories, recreate fairy tales and help story comprehension, or just have some fun.”
“I was truly amazed at the in-depth customization you can get into with it. I played for hours myself! Then of course the kids wanted to know what mommy was doing and I haven’t seen the iPad since!”
“This app has a variety of benefits for children with Special Needs. It works on imaginative play as well as fine motor skills. Overall, Felt Board is an amazing app that is well worth the money.”
“Överlag är det här en väldigt bra och barnvänlig app som jag verkligen vill rekommendera. Den passar bra för barn mellan 3 och 6 år. Betyg: blir 4 av 5.”
“Overall, this is a very good and child-friendly app that I really want to recommend. It is suitable for children from 3 to 6 years. Rating: gets 4 of 5.”
