Animal Planet Hide & Seek Pets By Cupcake Digital | Appy Mall

By?Christie Dwyer

Overall Impression

Animal Planet Hide & Seek Pets is an easy to maneuver and intuitively designed app for toddlers and preschool children! There are plenty of animal fun activities to keep your child engaged and at the same time practicing basic skills based on US Common Core State Standards. Children can play with animals, trace letters, do jigsaw and memory puzzles, color, and even play a virtual piano. There is definitely plenty of content to keep a child busy exploring the different areas and characteristics of the animals. Realistic photos of the animals are included. Coloring is great as it helps avoid those who get frustrated because they have difficulty staying within the lines. The ability to save coloring pictures is included. And the tracing section provides the direction in which the child should trace each letter as well as doesn?t allow random scribbles. So for those lovers of animals, hide and seek, and coloring and other activities, this is a great engaging all-in-one app with great features to check out.

Overall Rating:?4??

Appy Ratings (Appy?s):

Category:

• Game
• Language Arts
• Science

Goals:

• Coloring
• Comprehension
• Counting
• Drawing
• Find Same Objects
• Letters
• Matching
• Music
• Numbers
• Tracing Skills

Age Group:

• Baby-Toddler (Age 0-3)
• Pre-School (Age 4-5)

Overview

Animal Planet Hide & Seek Pets is another great app for the toddler/preschool age children to explore pet-based activities. Partnered with the Discovery Channel (Animal Planet series), developer Cupcake Digital has packed activities that will appeal to all pet lovers. After pressing the play button, the user winds up seeing a cute little hamster on a wheel. Tap the hamster to start spinning him and which animal related icon he lands on determines which of six different pet animals will be introduced. For example, there is a bone for a dog and yarn for a cat. The learner begins to play hide and seek to find the particular animal in various different clever ways, including using a flashlight to find a turtle or removing flower petals to uncover a rabbit. The app has cute graphics throughout, and does an excellent job of using photo realistic pics of the animals. Once uncovered, the animals can be moved around the page.

I was impressed with how many fun filled facts are included and how the text is highlighted as it is being narrated. This is great feature for all pre-emergent and beginning readers. And my preschooler was fascinated with these facts, and has mentioned some of them to me when seeing the particular animals outside of the app?s context, whether it be in a story or in real life. So this app does a great job at engaging a child with knowledge and having fun doing it. At the bottom of the screen, a child has the ability to play various fun activities, such as completing a jigsaw puzzle, tracing, memory matching, as well as a hide and seek activity. Each activity section is based on the section?s particular animal and has both an ?easy? as well as a ?hard? mode to choose from. Tracing is well thought out as learners trace either the capital/lowercase first letter of the animal (easy) or the entire name of the animal (hard section.)

Throughout the app from the menu hamster wheel to each individual game, there is a ??? icon that when pressed explains directions of how to play the game or take the next step. Also, the paw print in the top left corner allows for the user to return home at anytime. The paw print also opens up more fun activities that can be enjoyed- paint, music, sticker, learn, and options. The painting section has many different pictures to pick from as well as different coloring sources- paintbrush, chalk, crayon, spray paint, and even a paint bucket. The user can save his artwork to the iPad?s camera, or even erase the work by tapping the ?recycle? button. I was impressed by the fact to erase one?s work, one has to first answer the yes/no question, ?are you sure you want to erase all?? So with this two-step process, one cannot just accidentally touch the recycle button, and suddenly have it all disappear.

The music section includes an animal piano, where the particular animals can make the sounds of the keys, or hear the piano tones. The sticker section has resizable stickers that can be moved anywhere across the screen, as well as recycled if not interested in keeping it in the scene. The learn section has a place to rate the app, see credits, see common core standards, as well as a neat ?Grown-Up?s Corner? which gives some stimulating questions for parents/teachers to have a conversation with the child/children. The options section allow for volume change in music, sound, and voice narration. There is really no need for tracking progress or multiple different users, as this is more a fun app that has valuable features that can be read or played over and over again.

Issues/Wishlist

• I wish in the hide and seek sections, the animals could be hidden in different places each time.

Price and Download link

View Description from Developer

***Featured in New and Noteworthy Section in Education of iTunes App Store***

***Top Rated Awesome Kids Apps*** ***?We highly recommend Animal Planet Hide & Seek Pets for young children!? ? Kindertown*** ***?Children can play with the animals, but there?s also plenty of educational content, including letter tracing, puzzles, colouring and a virtual piano ? all based on US Common Core State Standards.? ? Apps Playground*** ***?Little ones especially the preschoolers who love animals will adore this app.? ? Real Kids Apps***

Spin the wheel and get ready to play! This vibrant app brings six adorable pets to life for kids ages 3 and up. Peek at the puppy! Swish with the fish! Squawk for the bird and much more! Kids begin their journey of discovery with this feature-rich app, packed with playful pet animations, engaging games and skill-building activities. Includes letter tracing, memory matching, puzzle play, creative coloring?plus a special interactive animal piano! Beautifully designed and easy to navigate, this app brings kids and their favorite pets together.

FEATURES ? Educational Games?Designed to engage kids with bright, colorful interactivity, young learners practice critical skills required by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for kindergarten.

? Tap-and-Play Creativity?The textured paint palette and pet personalization sticker book found in each environment encourage open-ended play.

? Dynamic Art?Tap-to-animate photorealistic pets pop to life against vibrant, kid-friendly backgrounds.

? Original Music?Jazz musician and composer Ben Allison adds a playful beat to each pet experience with engaging music and sound effects.

? Common Core Corner?This special feature provides parents and caregivers with detailed information on the CCSS educational overlay infused throughout this app.

? Grown-up?s Corner?Thoughtful questions prompt discussion, initiate collaborative conversation and encourage critical thinking.

?Animal Planet Hide & Seek Pets? was developed by Cupcake Digital in partnership with Discovery Communications and Joester Loria Group.

Hey, parents and caregivers! We care about your kids and their safety. This app contains gated links to ensure that only adults can access social networking sites, send contact e-mails or visit app stores. A pixel embedded in this app collects anonymous data to help us understand downloads by device. We never collect personal data from children and we never use data for behavioral targeting. For more information, or to view our full app privacy policy, please visit www.cupcakedigital.com/appsprivacy.

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About Christie Dwyer:

• Christie Dwyer is a certified elementary school teacher currently away from the classroom to be a stay-at-home mother to her two young children.

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