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Highlights for Children, Inc.

Jelly Bean

Accompanied by a friendly fox — and other animal buddies along the way — young children will learn and practice matching, sorting and categorizing both shapes and colors through imaginative activity-filled worlds. Visit an ancient jungle, the magical deep sea, mysterious outer space and the sweet Arctic! The puzzle games are woven into engaging stories, and the games increase in challenge as you go.

Kids will benefit from:

·      Development of critical thinking and problem solving skills

·      Creativity and curiosity as they explore new worlds of geometric shapes and colors

·      Confidence as they make decisions and advance to new levels

·      Learning key math skills like matching, sorting and classifying by shapes and colors

·      Identifying and naming 11 shapes and 11 colors

·      Development of fine motor skills

·      Security of an ad-free environment

Features: 

·      3 progressing levels of challenge:

o   Ancient Jungle Puzzle Pack – 4 shapes + 8 colors

o   Magical Underwater Puzzle Pack – 8 shapes + 11 colors

o   Mysterious Space Puzzle Pack – 11 shapes + 11 colors

·      Optional FREE Sweet Arctic Puzzle Pack – 8 shapes + 11 colors

·      Audio of up to 121 combinations of shapes and colors

·      Hilarious surprises and delights to engage children along the way

·      Track progress, skip and replay functions

·      3 language options (US English, UK English, Spanish)

This app is fun, creative, confidence building and developmentally appropriate — brought to you by the early childhood experts at Highlights and the Italian creative studio Colto. 

Highlights Shapes for kids ages 2+ is an ideal first app and is easy for young children to play on their own. It’s playable in English (US + UK) and Spanish.

MORE ABOUT HIGHLIGHTS SHAPES

PREPARES CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL

As children progress through Highlights Shapes, they’ll develop creative thinking and essential problem solving skills, both critical for the start of formal schooling. 

PROMOTES FUN, MEANINGFUL LEARNING

Highlights Shapes combines geometric, sorting and matching skills that are crucial for preschoolers to grasp, with the fun of an engaging, age-appropriate game. Children will learn valuable math and vocabulary skills all while having a blast traveling through new and exciting worlds! 

PROMOTES CONFIDENCE AND CREATIVITY

In this game, children will foster confidence, creativity and curiosity as they make decisions, build colorful geometric scenes and explore three exciting environments. 

DEVELOPS FINE MOTOR SKILLS

As children touch and drag each colorful shape, they’ll develop their fine motor skills. 

INCREASES VOCABLUARY 

As they correctly match and sort each object, children will hear their shapes and colors repeated aloud, helping them learn new words and increase their existing vocabularies. 

ABOUT US

Highlights for Children

Founded by educators Dr. Garry and Caroline Myers in 1946, Highlights was built on the belief that “Children Are the World’s Most Important People™.” Today, 70 years later, every “Fun with a Purpose™” product is still designed to help children become their best selves: creative, curious, caring and confident.

Colto 

Colto is creating imaginative and educational mobile play experiences for kids around the world based on original and branded properties. Our team — made up of a Mum/Teacher and talented Game Designers, Developers and Marketers — strives to develop high quality educational apps that kids love and parents trust. Our games are ethical, safe and designed to be non-addictive for kids.

Highlights Shapes

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