Rain Go Away ABCs (with indoor activities for parents and kids)
By Appbrella
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Description
Teach your toddler or preschooler the ABCs while learning about fun, creative indoor activities. Rain Go Away ABCs is a magical interactive app filled with hand-painted art, jiggle and tilt animations, and ready-to-go indoor activities you and your child can do together. Perfect for any day of the week and a lifesaver on those long, rainy afternoons! As featured in March 2011 issue of Parents magazine.
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"This is an app that will have you playing and learning right along side your child...this is a must have app...there are TONS of ideas for fun activities." -- Appmodo
"The best feature of Rain Go Away is hidden--your child will discover it when he or she gently jiggles or tilts your iPhone/iPad/iTouch--the painted picture comes alive with a fun (and sometimes surprising!) animation." -- GoGrahamGo (mom blog)
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✓ Touch on-screen objects to hear letter names, phonetic letter sounds and corresponding word pronunciation. Words are spelled on-screen for additional learning.
✓ Jiggle or tilt the screen to discover 30 different animations with sound effects. Make it rain meatballs into a bowl of spaghetti, take an X-ray of a wonderful little fish, splatter paint colors across the screen, help a mail-carrying mouse parachute to safety, watch a retro breakdancer find his groove, and many more!
✓ 26 craft and activity tips from Moms, Dads and Babysitters. Crafts and activities reinforce what your child has learned and deliver hours of shared indoor fun.
✓ Swipe and tap navigation for little fingers. Progress A to Z to see the animated weather background build to a rainstorm and then change to a sunny day. Or easily jump around to explore different letters.
✓ A fun and educational take on the timeless nursery rhyme Rain, Rain Go Away.
✓ Rain Go Away ABCs is a universal app. Buy it once and enjoy on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad!
Appbrella is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families.
Recommended Ages: 1-3, 4-7, parents
Categories: Creative Play, Early Learning, Letters, Reading, Phonics, Sight Words, Spelling, Parents
What's New in Version 1.1
- Fixed minor bugs
Customer Reviews
Great app for young kids!
This app is everything you want in an app for young kids. It has adorable graphics, fun ideas, engaging interactivity and, most importantly, it's Easy for them to play on their own! The app is very simple which is what I love about it - it doesn't feel like a video game. Just plain, simple fun that both my girls enjoyed. Perfect for kids aged 18mos - 4.
Two Thumbs Up
This app was a lifesaver for us during a recent flight to NYC. My 2.5 year old son and I enjoy playing it together--he gets to "drive" the app, and I read the tips. He's so proud of himself when he can say the letters and loves listening to the sounds. We were both surprised to see the animation when you tilt the iPhone--fun feature to go with the graphics. He frequently asks for the letter game and I like that it's fun andhelping him learn.
Educationally sound and entertaining!
I am the mother of a typical preschooler and a seven-year-old with special needs. They BOTH enjoy this app. I also work with typical and special needs preschoolers in the schools-this app has been especially great for working on receptive and expressive language skills.
Unlike many ABC apps, there is more to talk about than just "A is for apple". The kids quickly figure out that there is a hidden action to discover and they look forward to seeing what will happen next (I shake it for them). The only caveat is the illustration for "Q", which shows an infant nestled up in its cradle, with a quilt covering the baby. It is not 100% clear that the "Q" is supposed to represent the quilt, since the action highlighted is the rocking of the cradle. Perhaps instead the edges of the quilt could light up and move with the shaking action, or the baby could squirm in the quilt, making it move.
Anyhow, If you're just looking for something to babysit your kid, this definitely has the entertainment value to fit that bill, given that your child has mastered the shaking motion. If you were also hoping for more than that, you're in luck because in my professional opinion this has more educational value also.
- Free
- Category: Lifestyle
- Updated: Sep 17, 2010
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 14.1 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Appbrella Inc.
- © Appbrella
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
