A wonderful collection of apps that can be used to complement Spring, Gardening & Minibeast topics. Great for play or learning in the classroom or at home for children & young adults with Autism, complex & other additional learning needs.

TOUCH THE LADYBIRD BY DAVID HERRERA SOLAS
This is a super simple app, touch the ladybird and it will fly to the other side. A good app for helping develop directed touch.
Available from the App Store

TOUCH AND BORN BY ATECH APPS
Tap the screen and lots of caterpillar-like creatures with appear and start to move.
Create a long creature by dragging your finger along the screen, shake the screen to change the background colour and feed the Caterpillar sweets & cakes to watch it grow.
The creature begins to move and touch the screen with lines and points in the sense Drawing.
Available on the App Store
SENSORY LIGHTBOX BY COGNABLE
Such a fantastic & well loved app by all the children & young people I support.
There are so many different themes to choose from, but the following are great for Spring themed topics. Touch the screen to generate:
Flowers
Bees
Rain
Umbrellas.
There are fabulous sounds to go with the themes and you can also change the background to alter the contrast to suit the visual needs of different learners. This app is also switch accessbile.
There is a sister app too called Sensory Sound Box, both available on the App & Google Play store.

PEPI TREE BY PEPI PLAY
This is such a fabulous & fun app. By touching the screen learners can explore the habitats of lots of different animals that live in trees.
The app focuses on a tree as an eco-system. You can learn about what the different animals look like, what they eat and how they get there food, and where they exactly live in the branches, on the leaves or underground.
My favourite is the caterpillar, the game player can have lots of fun moving their finger around a leaf, apple, pear and more to watch the creature eat them all up. A really super app if you reading the ‘Hungry Caterpillar’
This app is available form the App Store

INSECT PARADISE BY ATECH APPS
Touch & drag your finger along the screen to make insects appear and start moving around the screen.
Big insects like beetles are born by touching the screen
Smaller insects such as bees & ants are born when the player drags their finger along the screen
Create a visual reaction when you touch tap the bigger insects.
Tap the larvae to watch more appear.
This app is available on the App store & the Google Pay store

KAPU FOREST
I really love this fun & colourful app.
Discover lots of fantastic animals in the Kapu Forest. Fed the hungry fox, build a dam with the beaver and help all the busy bees find there nectar and so much more.
This app is available on the App store & the Google Play store.

BLOOM TUNES
Another engaging & amazing app from Kapu.
Kapu Bloom Tunes combines painting with making music
The game player can dig deep into the ground to decorate the seed of magic, mystical musical flower.
Painting will make the whole soil resonate with beautiful chords and joyful melodies, inspiring the little ones to further explore the world of music.
Pouring magic water over the seed will make it sprout as a happy little plant, which will in time bloom in to a colourful flower, full of life and music!
When tickled the plant will sing you an ever-changing melody!
•The plant knows how to sing familiar nursery rhymes as well as dozens of cheerful little compositions of its own!
By giving it a spin of its petals, the child can explore and experiment by speeding up, slowing down or playing in reverse these magical small melodies.
This app is available on the App store & Google Play store.

FUN CHIME
Tap the screen on this fabulous interactive landscape, filled with beautiful trees, flowers & hidden surprises, which generate lovely sounds & graphics.
Create a muscial flowers meadow
Conduct a magical musical firework display
Explore day & night scenes full of hidden treasures, such as a scary cave, rain cloud & rainbow.
This app is available on the app store.

SAGO MINI FOERST FLYER
Go on a fun forest adventure with Robin in an interactive world full of eyecatching animations, that will bring joy & smiles to the games player.
Start the journey a Robin’s treehouse, ring the doorbell to invite his feathered friend out to play. Discover the magical forest together as you soar through the sky, dance & make new friends.
This app is available from the App store & the google play store.
Look out for more app recommendations, tried & tested by very special game players with SEND on the Sensory Soup Facebook page & Instagram.