The iPhone has a reputation for childishness, and to be fair a lot of the apps aimed at children do aim for the lowest common denominator (we're looking at you, Pull My Finger!)
But there is a wealth of really cool looking educational apps aimed at kids, and making the most of the iPhone (and iPod touch) technology.
Shape Builder, by Touch Screen Preschool Games, is an app aimed at pre-school kids that enables them to move around blocks to form shapes. It's like a virtual jigsaw.
According to the developer:
"Designed exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch, Shape Builder educates and entertains preschoolers with easy to move shapes that snap into place on top of silhouette puzzles. Each puzzle has 5 to 10 pieces and after positioning all of the pieces, the real image is revealed along with a professional voice recording of the word spoken by a licensed speech therapist, Jill Dews. Shape Builder encourages cognitive thinking and fine motor skills plus exposes young minds to new music instruments, animals, produce, objects and the alphabet in a fun and engaging format with LOTS of sound effects!"
Shape Builder for iPhone
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Holidayer said on Wed, 27 May 2009
My son loves this game!!!!!!
InHiGear said on Wed, 27 May 2009
Very nice and the kids really like it.
Ted Moroz said on Thu, 28 May 2009
My 3 year old son loves this game. I find it can keep him entertained from anywhere from 15 to 60 minutes at a time. A developer myself, I wrote an educational game called Meghan's Memory Game Preschool which holds his attention for less time overall but does have the added benefit of helping to teach him how to read. Math Magic and Word Magic by Anusen are some other kids educational games that are worthy to look at too.
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