App Review: First Day of School Countdown - Appracadabra - Help Children Count the Days Down Until School Starts

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First Day of School Countdown is a unique app with a novel idea behind it: to help children count the days down until school starts. Parents need only to enter their child’s name and the date when school starts and the app will do the rest. It will give a reminder 8 days before to remind kids to start counting. Starting on the seventh day before school starts, the app will give a new animation each day for kids to mark off the days in a fun loving way: make a balloon zoom around the room and have your name written on the blackboard by a cheeky monkey. This is a great app for children who just can’t wait until they get back to school. More than that, this is also a great app to motivate children who aren’t. The app really emphasizes the fun and excitement of going back to school from a long summer vacation or a few days of holidays.

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The idea behind the app is commendable because making children excited and motivated about going to school is an important step towards learning. The developers have also executed this idea well with superb art from Dutch illustrator Caroline Ellerbeck, good animation ideas applied to the illustrations, and good music and sound effects. The app is able to create and store three profiles at a time for parents with multiple children. These profiles are also customizable with the option to input pictures and dates for when school starts. It is also available in multiple major languages which extends its reach to more parents and children around the world. Finally, this app is a Kind Kids App which means that it does not contain in-app purchases, advertisements, external links, hidden tracking software or social network integration.

Overall

First Day of School Countdown is an app that was designed to motivate kids and build excitement towards the start of school. Count down the final 7 days with your children with funny animations and a bonus apple jigsaw puzzle!