Best app series: Best apps for when your nine year old has the flu (or an aversion to math tests)

While there’s nothing like a little human interaction, we’ve complied the best apps by activity in this series of ten, for when humanity is just a little too much. Here is our seventh instalment, the Best apps for when your nine year old has the flu (or an aversion to math tests)

Check back next Thursday for the “Best Apps for being productive at work after a longer than intended lunch-break ski/bike ride/catch-up.”

1. Animated Rope Knots (.99) 

See, kids can still practice knots like you did on your knot-board in Beavers! Almost fifty knots to practice, you just don’t know when you might need to know one. All you need is 99 cents, an app and some rope. I guess times have changed.

2. Aliens Among Us (Free)

 Created by the Royal Britsh Columbia Museum, this app allows users to explore the real live ‘alien’ flora and fauna around them.

3. Musyc Pro (4.59)

Over 80 instruments (broken down into 22 groups) at your disposal, no keyboards or partitions — this is not your average music creation app. Draw and play, listen to what you create!

4. Tauasui Sketches (Free)

Choose your tool and draw! Pen, pencil, eraser, paint pastel and more. Realistic but simplistic.

5. DIY – Skills for Kids

A companion app to the popular website DIY.org, which is geared at preteens and teens. Kids can browse and participate in DIY projects then post their photos online, from building a bow, to designing an infographic to memorizing an monologue. The online community is by all accounts supportive and friendly, and parents are alerted every time their child posts something to the site.