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Highlights™ Shapes

Introduce your preschooler to a vibrant world of colors and shapes that builds math, critical thinking and language skills through play!
Category Price Seller Device
Education Free Highlights for Children, Inc. iPhone, iPad, iPod

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 and mysterious outer space! 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 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 – 7 shapes + 11 colors
o   Mysterious Space Puzzle Pack – 11 shapes + 11 colors
·      Includes audio for 11 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 Italian creative studio Colto.

Highlights Shapes is an ideal first app for kids 2+, and 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 increasing 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/Teachers 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.

Required iOS 7 onwards

Reviews

SERIOUSLY
K2imichelle

I paid for the locked shapes, but they don’t transfer to a new ipad?!


Sound issues
Bostonski

Purchased the package but the sound isn’t working. Any suggestions on how to fix this?


Love it
carlyn abbott

I love highlights


No sound
ccuwnnt

This app would be great if it had sound. I emailed app support and they haven’t responded.


Sound issues?
Anxious daughter

If you are having sound issues, try turning notifications off and on. Notifications have to be on for sound. At least that is what worked for us.


Volume stopped working
Treu pup

App was pretty neat but volume suddenly stopped working a couple months ago. I’ve deleted and redownloaded the app and still nothing. Tried to do a live chat for help and that never works either. Don’t have time do be on a phone waiting on hold forever to try and figure it out. Just a shame.


Love it but have no sound
Jeffrey Davis

My wife has this app on her ipad, so I bought another copy for my iPad. It works but I can’t get the sound to work. Can you help? Jeff Davis


Great App, Issue with the sound
NLMT79

Daughter loves the app, but unable to get sound to work on my phone or my IPad. Tried a few tricks found in other reviews but to no avail


Shared in app purchases
danz209898

Can’t share in app purchases w family.


If notifications are disabled, there is deliberately no sound.
Pugpower24

This is an extremely predatory practice especially for a kids app. I saw this on reddit and decided to try it for myself, and sure enough... Despite not having kids or any legitimate interest in this app, this is still a disgusting practice and this shouldn't be on the app store.


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