The App store can be a bit like shopping at an unorganized consignment shop. But now, finding the best app with an educational value that makes use of your preschooler’s creativity, curiosity and silliness is made easy with this list by Common Sense Media. Some of these apps are completely open-ended, some involve numbers and others develop a love of reading. Find the apps that fit your kid’s interests and age with this list below.

Busy Shapes
Age: 2
Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad (2014)

Parents need to know that Busy Shapes is an exploring-to-learn activity for toddlers based on Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. Piaget believed that the youngest children, in the stage of development he called “sensorimotor,” learn about their world by exploring and manipulating it. Busy Shapes gives kids a digital playground to explore and has lots of features in place to make it easy for the…