These are exciting times for cinema-loving children, with Rio 2, Muppets Most Wanted and Frozen all still screening, with How To Train Your Dragon 2 still to come. And in 2014, no kids’ movie is complete without a tie-in app.

Rio 2 certainly has one: it was released by Cupcake Digital earlier this month just as the animated sequel came out. Released for iPhone, iPad and Android, it tells the new story of Blu, Jewel and their three children.

As is often the case with these kinds of apps, you’re getting the story of the film, condensed down into pictures and text for a range of children to read, or have read to them. Word highlighting will help both of those groups.

Thankfully, the developers haven’t left it there. A colouring section has a variety of images ready to be filled in, with a neat interface that helps children not go over the lines without ever feeling too restrictive.

There are also three mini-games starring the film’s characters. Sky Soccer sees you pulling back Blu with your finger to boot a ball into a net; Whack a Monkey involves slapping cheeky simians; and Fruit Crusher is a match-three puzzle game where you fire fruit at other fruit to make them disappear.

As with its previous apps, Cupcake Digital has created some educational material that parents and teachers can download from its website as PDF files to print out.

In Rio 2’s case, that’s currently a Bia’s Best Bites worksheet that gets children to illustrate three phrases from the story and circle their descriptive words; and a Compound Word Birds sheet teaching children about combining words to form bigger ones.

Rio 2 costs £1.99 for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store, and £1.80 for Android from the Google Play store.

Read about more kids’ apps based on movies on Apps Playground, and check out our 100 Best iPad Apps of 2013 e-book – £1.99 from Apple’s iBooks Store