Preschool Adventure: Simple Pleasures

This is a great starter application for your 3-4 year old. Even better, its a good way to figure out what kind of applications your kids might like. One challenge I have had is spending money on applications that Wormie will play for all of two seconds before getting bored. And thus GabbaPhone was born, where i strive to deliver the unmitigated truth of how an application meets the needs of my child's finely honed technological pallet. Or...how much time i can get or to play it while we are at a restuarant.

Preschool Adnventure is a collection of six games that have no discernible tie to one another other than that they are simple and easy to use. The "games" are labeled Colors, Numbers, Shapes, Body, Matching, and Sounds - while not winning any awards for creativity they work for Wormie. The coolest part about giving the app to Wormie is that she intuitively started jumping between the games. The buttons were big and inviting and she was able to quickly figure out what to do with each game once she hit the button. Watching her explore the application and figure it out each little bit on her own was cool from a parent's angle. I've rated each game below with the number of "Wormie plays" before she would jump to another game.

• Colors - Hit little ink spots and sea animals pop up with a little sound. (4 plays)
• Numbers - Connect the dots (numbers) in order and draw an animal (6 plays)
• Shapes - Hit the shape and it pops out of a crater in a planet (1 play)
• Body - Touch body parts of a monkey and they reattach, kinda weird (2 plays)
• Matching - Match animal body parts and animal does something cute, like yodle (3 plays)
• Sounds - Touch cute animals on the farm and they make farm sounds (no recollection)

I was surprised, and excited. that she liked the numbers game the best. Overall she will spend a good 10-15 minutes sorting through the different options on Preschool Adventure jumping from one game to another. I wouldn't recommend this for an older kid (5+) or "genius" child but it was a great fit for Wormie, who likes her independence and the freedom to use the device all on her own.

Age Range: 3-4
Difficulty: 4.0/5 (5 being easy)
Look & Feel :2.5/5 (5 being cool)
Parent Helper: 4.5/5 (5 being helpful)

Price $.99