Apps for Girls

In honor of Girls' Club restarting at Sensi's school this month, here are a group of apps that are all things girly. All apps are the standard .99 to $4.99 unless otherwise noted. If noted as free, they were free at the date of publishing.

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Toca Tea Party: A take anywhere tea party to play alone or with your friends.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toca-tea-party/

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MathGirl Number Garden and Math Girl Addition House: For girls learning addition and multiplication. Count flowers, recognize patterns, earn stars to buy things for your garden and house.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mathgirl-number-garden
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mathgirl-addition-house

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The Adventures of the 7Wonderlicious Girls: Role modeling short stories cards about intelligence, exploration and adventure.
 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adventure-7wonderlicious-girls

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Paper Town Friends: A paper doll app that looks like actual paper. Many characters and outfits to choose from.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-town-friends 

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Lego Minifigure Ultimate Sticker Book:  Okay, not really girly but it lets her play with her brother's toys without destroying them. Considering the real world version of this book is over $10 on Amazon, and that she can play with the stickers over and over, this is great.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-minifigure-ultimate-stickers

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Princess Dress-Up: Free, with in-app purchase for 1.99. Lovely graphics, but the princesses are limited to white skin and blond, red, brunette and black hair, and only 4 backgrounds.  That being said, choose options from 12 categories including dresses, hairstyles, pants, eyes and earrings. Finally a princess app that is not sickeningly sweet or Disney.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/princess-dress-up

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My Nail Salon:  A game with customers to satisfy, but lots of cool nail art options to play around with. Plus no mess while they play.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/my-nail-salon
Nail Salon Pro HD: a more grown up version, without the game play.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nail-salon-pro-hd 

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Butterfly Brunch: a simple coordinate plotting game. Feed the butterfly at the coordinate and move the caterpillar to the top of the flower.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/butterfly-brunch 

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Toca Store: Play store on the go. Uses basic math and two player option good for teaching taking turns
 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toca-store


The last one is not so girly, but fun anyway. I must say that while researching this post I was saddened by the lack of science, math and engineering apps for girls. I would love to see a chemistry app to formulate your own cosmetics or a doll house building app. If they could figure out a way to have a self contained SciGirls app I know I would buy it. There is plenty of room for developers to grow in this area. Let me know what gems I may have missed. Have some great eplay with these.



resources: 
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/mobile-app-lists/apps-girls 
http://digitalmediadiet.com/?p=1714