Animal Puzzle Toddler Games for Girls & Boys 4+

By jpeter713

Puzzle apps for preschoolers are plentiful. What's different about Puzzle Apps for Kids and Toddlers is it gives a child a bit more in the way of interactive fun. The animals spin, the windmill turns, and the stars sparkle. As a speech pathologist, I encourage parents to use apps like this with young children to talk about what the child is seeing and doing. It creates a parent-child dialogue that promotes language learning.

While the full version (with in-app purchase) offers a good number of puzzles, it isn't unique or robust enough to get excited about. It plays well with pleasing graphics and intuitive control but lacks extras such as animal names and sounds. This is the type of app that toddlers could just pick it up and play without parental guidance so the more it provides in term of interactive and teaching the better. My twins have already played a dozen of similar and better puzzlers, so they were content and didn't ask for more beyond the 5 free puzzles and moved on to another game.

The versatility of this app is great. The app is filled with immediate feedback. This app could be used when following directions, describing (expressive language), and matching. There is an in-app purchase to obtain the entirety of the puzzles, but for what the app offers, it is worth it! As a speech-language pathologist, the amount of communication that could be created with this app is incredible for young children. I recommend this app!