How to Find the Right Tablet for Your Child

Shopping for your kid’s first tablet doesn’t have to be a challenge. Our list is here to help.

The best tablets on the market today are truly wonders of modern technology. Despite their small size, they’re incredible for everything from getting work done while on-the-go to taking your entire media collection with you while you travel. Of course, all of this is incredibly impressive if you’re in your 30s, 40s and beyond … but it probably won’t lead you to bat an eye if you’re 10.

But children can absolutely get in on the action too as our list below of our top picks for tablets for kids goes a long way towards proving.

Fire HD 8 Tablet

Fire HD 8 Tablet
Leave it to Amazon to make sure that the little ones are accounted for too. Amazon

First up we have this entry from tech giant Amazon – someone who has proven themselves more than willing to cater to children and adults alike. It features up to 10 hours of battery life, an 8-inch display, 1.3 GHz quad-core processor and 1.5 GB of RAM. Plus, Prime members get access to 1 million songs, thousands of movies and TV episodes and unlimited photo storage. That’s enough to survive any family road trip.

Vankyo MatrixPad Z1 Kids Tablet

Vankyo MatrixPad Z1 Kids Tablet
You’d certainly never confuse this for a tablet made for adults. Amazon

This 7-inch MatrixPad Z1 kids tablet from Vankyo isn’t just built with kids in mind – it also comes with a number of features that make it worthwhile for parents, too. More specifically, it offers an innovative new parental control mode that lets you create and customize profiles for each one of your kids. You can pick out the content that they can consume, control screen time, make sure that they’re staying safe while browsing the web and much, much more. The security settings can also be changed as your kids get older and when you want them to expand their horizons a little bit.

Dragon Touch Y88X Pro 7 inch Kids Tablet

Dragon Touch Y88X Pro 7 inch Kids Tablet
The Dragon Touch tablet comes with tons of Disney content pre-installed, including 20 story books and six audio books. Amazon

Dragon Touch’s kids tablet features the Android 9.0 operating system, 1.5GHz quad core processor and 16GB storage with 2GB of RAM. That’s all find and dandy but what really appeals to parents is that the tablet is made from a soft silicone material that keeps it safe from bumps, drops and dirt.