This ideal starter app provides a safe, gimmick-free creative experience that even a toddler (or 40 year old parent) can understand.

You start one of six Sago characters. You can then try on different hat outlines, and then cut, build, decorate, paint or carve the hat. Completed work can be tried on providing your tablet has a camera. practice numbers and counting with the cash register. There's not much to do, but the simple design makes it easy to feel creative.

Like other Sago Mini apps, Hat Maker is very well designed, with some noteworthy nice touches. The characters react to their new hats in real time, and pose for a photo with their new hat in front of different backdrops.

Content includes 15 hat shapes which can be tried on six animal characters, including Larry the Log. This app works without Wi-Fi and contains no in-app purchases or third-party advertising. You can download this app individually or access it as part of Sago Mini World (with a $4.49/month subscription).