New from LeapFrog, Scout’s ABC Garden is a fun app that allows preschoolers to practice their letters on iDevices.
Scout’s ABC Garden app has educational features that one would expect from LeapFrog as a trusted name in learning tools for children. The app encourages children to explore letter names and sounds step by step, and each child’s experience is customized based on his or her name, favorite food, favorite color and favorite animal.
Little Miss Techie received an advance look at the app and had the following to say about Scout’s ABC Garden:
“This game would be good for kids who are working on their letters. The animal tells you a letter to find on the screen and you have to find it. Kind of like a hide and seek but it is right in front of you. Then you tap on it with your finger and then the animal will say “good job, you found the letter C” or something like that.
Shaking the iPhone gets the seed out of the seed packet on the screen. Then they will be sprinkled in the garden and you grow something because it’s called the alphabet garden.
The game is fun because you get to grow a garden and there are fun challenges. If you complete the challenges, you get fun rewards like the watering can reward. The rewards are trophies and the stuff on top of the trophies are golden and they have some kind of gardening tool.”
More information from LeapFrog:
With the ‘Scout’s ABC Garden’ app kids can explore Scout’s garden by touching and triggering fun and delightful sounds and animations like interactive clouds, bubbles, ticklish gophers, and Scout and Violet’s virtual radio that plays traditional kid-favorite songs. Kids can even rub Scout’s or Violet’s belly to hear a song with their name, or grow their own letter garden.
Other key aspects of the app include:
- A is for Achievement. The app is customized to each child’s level of learning, helping every child learn about letters and sounds at his or her own pace.
- B is for Bragging. Alerted when learning happens, proud parents can also share in their child’s learning achievements. With each accomplished goal, not only does the child receive a badge or trophy, but parents are alerted to their child’s achievement which they can then celebrate and share via social channels, including Facebook.
- C is for Customization. A main ingredient of the app’s appeal is its deep level of personalization. With the capacity to hold up to three profiles, a parent can customize the app for different children, including their favorite foods, colors and animals, so each can experience unique gameplay.
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The ABC Garden app is available for $3.99 from the iTunes App Store on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
I am a paid weekly contributor to The LeapFrog Community and received the app for review purposes. All opinions are my own.
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We have some apps on an iPad that my 5 year uses to write letters. He can’t get enough!
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What a cute app! I was hoping leapfrog would develop some. We have so many different things the kids like to do with letters. Right now the favorite for my 3 year old is ABC Mouse.
@HSlater351
What a great app. One of the best ways we worked with Michael and letters was shaving cream.