Pango Build City

$2.99, iPad, Android, iPhone

Teaches: creativity, spatial relations

CTR Rating: 90%

CTR Review

This is a noisy, happy, easy to use, creativity experience that introduces children to grids and early spatial reasoning. You can start either with a pre-made city or a blank rotating stage waiting for your roads, buildings, trees and people. After you put down the road system, you drop in one of eight buildings. We noticed that the view and grid change when changing menus, which can make things mildly confusing. After your city is complete touch the "play" button to activate the city. This populates it with five animals who act like keys, by bringing the vehicles to life. Depending on which prop they touch, they might become a firefighter, grocer, postman or doctor, and they travel around the city on train or on car. Minor quirks - you can't toggle the sound on/off. Need to know: touch the sun or moon to toggle between day and night mode.