December 19, 2019
Love them or loathe them, it’s safe to say that tablets are here to stay and will be top of many a Christmas list. 
The 10 Best Tablets For Kids
Whether you see them as a great learning resource, or believe screens are the scourge of our age, children are spending increasing amounts of time on them. 
Ofcom estimates that on average three to four year olds spend 3 hours a day in front of a screen, which rises to 4 hours between the ages of five and seven and 4.5 hours for eight to 11 year olds.
With such a great range of child-friendly content, apps and games that are both educational and entertaining, it’s easy to see why. Provided you get the balance right and take the necessary precautions, tablets can be incredibly useful.
So what should we be looking out for when choosing a tablet for our wee ones? Cost aside, there are certain factors you might want to consider.
Top on the list has to be parental controls. The ability to hand pick and customise a browser to make it safe will give many parents peace of mind. The last thing you want is for your child to stumble across the human centipede, instead of the hungry caterpillar.
You’re also going to want a hard-wearing model, with good protective case and the ability to withstand being dropped repeatedly and – let’s face it - other forms of abuse. Other plus points in this vein are water resistance or splash proofing. A long battery life is handy, especially on a long journey and you want to choose something that is neither too big (unwieldy) nor too small (hard to see), but is just right- a bit like baby bear’s porridge. 
Versatility is another important factor: what will your child use the tablet for a year from now? Hey Duggee might be flavour of the month, but it might be gaming in future. Your three year old might love that toddlertastic model now, but might refuse to use it when they’re six. 
The operating system is worth thinking about, too. Inbuilt apps for child-specific tablets can be limited and expensive to buy. This is less of a problem, however, if you’re leaning towards an Apple or an Android tablet, because of the huge selection of apps available.
Do you go for a dedicated kids’ tablet, or adapt an adult one for your child? There are advantages in both. An age specific tablet will come with a variety of age-appropriate games and educational tools, as well as high levels of parental controls. A grown-up tablet can be shared with your child and grow with them. So whether you want to child-proof your tablet, or to choose a specifically child-friendly model, here are our top picks.Fire HD 10 Kids Edition, Amazon, £199.99  Amazon is deservedly the market leader on the kids tablet front and offer Kids Edition versions of all the sizes in the Fire Tablet range. Amazon tablets tend to be great value and have excellent parental controls. These can be accessed from your own phone and include restrictions on certain sites, or ways to limit the length of time your child can be on it. Other pluses are their two year warranties that cover accidental damage (for obvious reasons). You can also create different profiles – and age filters - so the tablet and content can be shared between siblings.
The Fire 10 HD comes with Amazon’s most durable, shock-proof bumper case yet, available in pink or blue. The 10 inch HD screen, which is the largest in the kids’ market, offers crisp viewing quality. You also get a year’s subscription to Fire for Kids Unlimited, which gives you access games, books, TV shows and films as well as educational apps galore. You don’t get access to the app store or Google Play (and this is one of the main draw-backs in choosing an Amazon tablet) but there are Amazon alternatives. The battery life is an impressive 10 hours on one charge. 
Buy it now.Fire HD 10, Amazon, was £149, now £109.99Alternatively, you could get the Amazon Fire (i.e the grown up version) HD 10 for you and your child to share. This is a great value option, offering more bang for your buck, especially if you’re already an Amazon Prime member. You can create child profiles to limit screen time, set educational goals and manage content with high grade parental controls. Amazon Fire for Kids comes free with every Fire tablet. You can also subscribe to Fire for Kids for heaps of kid-friendly apps, audiobooks, videos and games, for £1.99 per month. Note that this differs from the Amazon Kids range where you get a year’s subscription free. 
This version is 30% faster than older versions and has a 10.1 inch screen and an impressive 12 hours of battery life. It also has dual cameras – front and rear-facing – with 720p HD video recording. It is available as 64GB. You don’t get the no-questions-asked two year guarantee or the child-proof bumper. But you do get Alexa. This is a great budget option for the family. As long as you’re all happy to share, that is.
Buy it now.LeapFrog Epic 7 Android Kids Tablet, Amazon, £89.99 LeapFrog does great tablets for kids, with a focus on educational software. This model is aimed at three to nine year olds (but better suited to the younger end of that range) and offers an array of games and apps that are fun, but will help your child learn and develop. It also has solid parental controls built into it and offers multiple user profiles.  
A plus point on the versatility front is that this model uses Android. You don’t get loads of apps with the tablet (20+) but you can buy them at extra cost (quite a bit of extra cost).  It comes with a green or pink protective bumper and a stylus, which is cool for writing practise or drawing. It has a 7inch screen and a six hours of battery life. The main downside is the screen resolution which is noticeably low. It also doesn’t cover for accidental damage.
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 Apple iPad Mini 10.2, John Lewis, from £384An iPad Mini is a great option for mini hands, that will – no doubt - want to move on to explore more over time. With a 7.9 inch screen it is the right size for little people, too. It is expensive compared to an Amazon or LeapFrog tablets, but it will probably keep them interested for longer and there’s kudos in slick Apple design (OK maybe more for the adults). It also has the best choice of apps and games on the market and the picture quality wins hands down.
You can disable Safari to stop your child from browsing and accessing inappropriate content, though parental controls aren’t as strict as they would be on child-dedicated tablets. This model can now support the apple pencil, which makes it a good educational and creative tool. It has other nice features like True Tone, which automatically adjusts the white balance on the screen, whatever lighting you’re in. It offers ten hour battery life and comes in classic Apple colours; silver, grey or gold. Remember to buy a durable, kid-proof case for it.
Buy it now.LeapFrog LeapPad Ultimate, Amazon, was £129.99, now £60.60 Billed as the “next generation of children’s interactive and technological play” the LeapPad Ultimate offers a 7 inch multi touch screen with sharp graphics. It has a shatter-safe screen and a wrap around bumper. It comes pre-loaded with apps, games and puzzles for educational content in maths, reading and science to help kids with learning.It offers 16 apps, including Music Player, and two cameras and video recorders. It has 8GB of memory Simple, educational and entertaining. At just over £60, it’s a bargain.
Buy it now.Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids Edition, Amazon, £129.99  Like the Fire HD 10, this model comes with a child-proof case and a two years’ warranty. You get a stand with this one too for no hands viewing. You also get Amazon Fire for Kids Unlimited and the same fab parental controls. It also offers 12 hours’ battery life and 32GB memory. If you’re looking for a tablet that does everything the Fire HD 10 does, and are happy to have a smaller screen, this is the one. 
Buy it now.LeapFrog Academy Edition, Amazon, from £96.24 The Academy Edition is basically a more recent version of the LeapFrog Epic. It is an Android tablet, with the same screen resolution and protective bumpers in green or pink. Both offer 16GB memory, with additional SD card slot that will take cards up to 32GB. The parental controls are also the same.
The main difference is that you get the LeapFrog Academy app, a subscription-based service, free for 3 months. The screen on this model is shatter resistant, unlike the Epic. You also get another hour’s battery life and it comes with more pre-installed games.
Buy it now.Kurio Tab Connect, Amazon, from £69.98This is another Android, child-specific tablet. It claims best-in-class parental controls, such as time limits and app management, including being able to switch the tablet off remotely. Just brilliant/ infuriating, depending on where you are on the parent-child axis. It also offers a life-time subscription to Kurio Genius, an internet filtering system designed to keep them safe, which covers more than 32 billion websites in 200 languages. Should be enough to keep them entertained for a few minutes. You also get a new surprise app a week.
It has a sleek – dare I say grown-up? – design and a 16GB memory. You can create up to eight profiles – that’s four more than Amazon Fire – so a good option for larger (albeit patient) families.  The screen is amongst the smaller ones at 7inch, but it’s good quality. Overall a good buy for just under £70.
Buy it now.Kurio Advance C17150, Ebuyer, £69.98  This model is a slight upgrade on the Kurio Tab Connect, in so far as it has an improved content system, with 40 preloaded apps. Other than that, it has the same screen size, internet filtering system and parental controls. 
Buy it now. Ainol Q88A Kids Tablet, Amazon, £49.99  It might not have the catchiest name, but for under £50 this is a good budget option. The Ainol inbuilt kids’ app is the iWawa and it offers parental control and filter options and access to the usual suspects like Netflix and Youtube, through its Android operating system. It comes with 8GB storage, which can be increased up to 64GB with an SD card.
Buy it now.Related... Travelling With Kids: Your Ultimate Survival Guide And 10 Must-Haves Naughty Or Nice: Should We Really Be Using Santa To Discipline Our Kids? The 10 Best Travel Cots To Keep Your Baby Happy On Holiday We all work hard to earn our money – so it shouldn’t feel like hard work to spend it well. At HuffPost Finds we’ll help you find the best stuff that deserves your cash, from the ultimate lipstick to a durable iron to replace the one that broke (RIP). All our choices are completely independent but we may earn a small commission if you click a link and make a purchase. 
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