Kid-friendly app of the week: The Monsters

2012-10-09 17:43:52

The developer of Faces iMake - the award winning app that's captured the creative minds of children and parents alike - has hit it out of the ballbark once again with The Monsters, a fun and educational app geared towards the preschool set.

Meet the Monsters, a friendly and kooky family that will engage your child with a variety of academic activities, including color and word recognition, matching, counting, spatial reasoning and visual acuity, and learning to differentiate between objects that are the same and different.

iMagine Machine created The Monsters using what they describe as a "slow app movement," by removing unecessary app distractions and honing in on what truly matters in an app designed to encourage and facilitate learning: a calm and focused environment.

"As someone once said, just because you have a hammer doesn't mean you have to smash everything. It's the same with apps," says Andrea Dinnick, partner at iMagine Machine. "Not every character needs to be swipe-able and tap-able with everything singing and dancing."

The Monsters is a perfect example of such an app.

"It has been designed so that preschoolers must focus on a single game with no distractions," Dinnick says. "Even the voices of the characters within the app speak slowly and calmly. We built in lots of great rewards and virtual prizes to keep it exciting but it isn't manic in any way."

The end result is a game worthy of your child's attention. The comfortable pace of the app is also perfect for my special needs son, who enjoys completing each educational task but isn't overwhelmed by a constant barrage of auditory and visual stimuli.

The Monsters is available for purchase in iTunes for $1.99.

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