Bugs and Buttons 2
© 2013 Little Bit Studio, LLC
Visually rich and thick with carefully leveled pre-math opportunities, this follow up to Bugs and Buttons (CTR February 2012), contains another well crafted set of 18 math and logic activities. If you liked the first edition, you'll like this one too. There's more variety, better leveling, and management features that make it possible to keep individual profiles for different children. There are two modes: automatic guide and explore, both options found on the first menu, so you never feel trapped. To tie the games together, a new scavenger hunt feature challenges you to find a hidden bug in each activity. Other nice touches include the use of multitouch in several of the puzzles, so children can work collaboratively to solve puzzles. There's also a rubber band bouncing game that asks you to coordinate to finger movements; offering a rare fine motor exercise. Besides sorting a plentiful assortment of beautiful jewel-like buttons, there's an antique piano that asks you to repeat a song, a remote control car, and a game similar to Frogger where you help a cricket find his way across busy traffic. There are no in app sales and the kid's lock provides a gated area for parents. This is where you can turn on or off the background music without turning off the activity sounds, or where you can create a profile for each child. Whether it's for solitary play or for a small group, this no fail app always provides something interesting to do.
$2.99, iPad, iPhone (340 MB)
Teaches: classification, logic, matching, seriation, alphabet order, memory, timing, temporal relations, angles, music
CTR Rating: 98%