Shapes Games Kids (Preschool)

About Shapes Games Kids (Preschool) Android Game

Shapes Games Kids (Preschool) app has especially created for toddlers, preschool, kindergarten children. The concept behind this app is around the following points:
• Introducing kids to basic 2D and 3D shapes
• Investing lots of animation, sound and other multimedia effects to get the learning across in the most interesting manner possible
• Ensuring knowledge-retention as one of the features
• Providing self-check tools for self-checking oneself about the knowledge about shapes
In addition, Shape-Tutor App for Kids has been developed while keeping the preferences of kids in mind as well.
The learning gained from this application happens in a fun-filled manner through:
• Interactive activities that explain 2D and 3D shapes
• Shape-tracing tools within the activities so that kids can instantly practice drawing a shape once they learn it
• Image-based quiz that tests the knowledge about shapes
• A virtual drawing book activity that requires kids to create images by placing different shapes on top of each other
Features of the activity explaining 2D shapes have been given below.
• The shapes that are explained in this activity are:

o Square
o Rectangle
o Triangle
o Circle
o Oval
o Heart
o Star
o Rhombus
o Trapezium

• For each shape there are four real-world examples hidden behind circles.

o The activity starts with an instructional voice-over informing kids that they require to tap each circle to see the examples.
o Kids require to tap each circle for viewing the examples.
o On tapping the examples, a voice-over clearly pronounces the name of each example.
o A dotted outline of the shape appears after kids have tapped all the four examples.
o This ‘shape-tracing tool’ enables kid to practice drawing the shape by moving their fingers along the dotted outline.
o Once a kid completes tracing the outline an animated image of the shape appears while a voice-over introduces the name of a shape in an attractive manner.

• An Instructions icon and a Home icon are present as well.
Features of the activity explaining 3D shapes are given below.
• The shapes that are explained in this activity are:

o Sphere
o Cube
o Cuboid
o Cone
o Cylinder
o Pyramid

• For each shape there are four real-world examples.

o The activity starts with an instructional voice-over informing kids that they need to tap each example to view its enlarged version.
o On tapping each example, a voice-over pronounces its name.
o Each enlarged example can be rotated along all angles simply by tapping and dragging.
o In this activity, the shape-tracing tool is present right from the start.

• An Instructions icon and a Home icon are present as well.
Features of the drawing activity are given below.
• Kids have the freedom of choosing any shape they want to and placing them accordingly to create an image.
• They can color the shapes simply by tapping on the color pane to select the correctly colored brush and then tapping once more on the shape.
• An Eraser feature has also been given to undo the creations they don’t like.
• They have also been given the feature of saving this created image.
• Apart from that they can also form an image by placing shapes over their outlines preset to form an image.
Features of the image-based quiz are given below.
• The image-based quiz contains questions that ask kids to match a particular shape with its real-world example.
• Hence in one of these quiz question, a kid may have to find the match for a circle out of four choices given.
• A correct choice is signaled by an animation of a mooing cow.
• An incorrect choice is signaled by an animation of a cow in tears.