NFL Play 60
(Apple Appstore, Google Play; Ages: 5-18)
If your kids love sports, especially football, but
it’s hard to get them to do any actual exercise,
NFL Play 60 is just the right app for them.
Created by the NFL, in collaboration with the
American Heart Association, the app lets kids pretend that they’re
professional football players. But instead of simply making their
on-screen avatars run and jump, they have to get off the couch and
actually run, jump, catch and turn to make their avatars move. The
app lets kids count the steps they’ve taken while playing the game.
Space Chef
(Apple Appstore; Ages: 5-12)
If you want your kids to learn to eat well,
encourage them to download Space Chef.
Created by the Lawrence Hall of Science,
maker of the Monster Heart Medic app, Space
Chef teaches kids important facts about healthy foods. And it goes
one important step further: it has more than 60 easy-to-make and
kid-friendly recipes that encourage kids to eat healthily and to take
responsibility for their own diets.
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Super Stretch Yoga
(Apple Appstore; Ages: 9-18)
Besides meditation, a great way for kids to
relax their minds and bodies for optimal health
is to practice yoga. Super Stretch Yoga, created
by a well-known yoga instructor, Jessica
Rosenberg, teaches kids yoga through video demonstrations by
other kids, with a focus on breathing and movement. It’s narrated
by a character named Super Stretch and features 12 different poses
with different skill levels. Kids can use the built-in camera to take
pictures of themselves doing the various poses.
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Sworkit Kids
(Apple Appstore, Google Play; Ages: 5-18)
Sworkit Kids is another great exercise and
fitness app. Unlike NFL Play 60, it doesn’t
focus on one particular sport and set of
movements. Instead, the goal is to improve
strength, agility, flexibility, and balance by
viewing and doing more than 200 pre-loaded exercises that have
video tutorials with other kids. The app also lets kids create their
own, individualized exercises. After each exercise, kids can see
how many calories they have burned.
Three Good Things: A Happiness Journal
(Apple Appstore; Ages: 5-18)
It’s a well-known fact that mental health is
impacted by a sense of well-being. If your kids
need a little boost and happen to enjoy writing,
encourage them to download Three Good
Things: A Happiness Journal. The app helps
kids think more positively by writing daily
about three good experiences they’ve had. The app has a feature
that lets kids upload and share their writings on social media.
Tanni Haas, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Communication Arts,
Sciences, and Disorders at the City University of New York – Brooklyn College.
March 2019 WNY Family 63