Tuesday 23 June 2020

Leap Frog toy review

Yes mummas, I’m back with more toys that’ll have your little ones laughing and learning their way through this chilly Aussie winter. Let’s get stuck into what we’ve been loving lately:

Number Loving Oven, RRP $39.95
The Number Loving Oven is the perfect recipe for number learning fun! From counting and cooking to serving and sharing, it's preschool prep for little chefs. With 16 fun ingredients included, the delightful singing oven warms up counting, sharing, fraction and vocabulary skills. Move the slider to explore numbers, time, and temperature, count along with the blinking light and more. Close the oven to explore numbers and counting. Open it to learn about counting and sharing. Share the pizza to practice early fractions. Cook up a storm as the frying pan sizzles when it is placed on the stove top. Serve up the fun with the Number Loving Oven. For preschoolers aged 2-5 years, the Number Loving Oven is available at Big W from June onwards.

Macie and I have been having so much fun with this one! When she’s off pre-school, I’m off work, so our house becomes an educational bake off! I can see a noticeable improvement in her counting and number skills, and she absolutely loves all the activities.



LeapStart 3D with 2 bonus books, RRP $89.95
LeapStart 3D is a complete learning system that magically brings books to life. When used with new 3D-like encoded LeapStart books, the LeapStart 3D hardware delivers a magical experience that enhances the learning fun with amazing animations through a pop-up holographic screen. The system stylus reads invisible dots on every page, triggering holographic animations along with questions, challenges, songs, jokes and more. Children will be excited as their favourite characters and objects come to life with amazing 3D-like animations, encouraging interactive play. Kids can engage with the step-by-step system to learn school and life skills through more than 600 activities that match the curriculum for their preschool and early school years. The grow-with- me stylus helps fine-tune gross motor skills providing the correct grasp for learning to write. The new LeapStart 3D bundle comes with two bonus books: Shapes & Colours with Creativity, and 200 Words in English & French. Each book seamlessly blends fun with skills from problem- solving to reading lessons, helping with your child's development and introduction to key concepts. Give your child a LeapStart into learning! For preschoolers aged 2-7 years, the LeapStart 3D with 2 books bundle is available at Big W and Target from June onwards for a limited time.

This is one of my favourites this year! It’s really helping Macie with her interactivity and reading skills, and being able to match the activities to the age group means we’ll be using this for years to come. The 3D hardware is super cool, too. Macie is always mesmerised when the holographic screen pops up!



Disney Frozen Learning Game for LeapPad, RRP $27.50 https://store.leapfrog.com/en-au/app- centre/p/disney-frozen-learning-game/_/Aprod59085-96914
Requests for beautiful ice sculptures are coming from all around Arendelle. Help Anna, Elsa and Olaf deliver what's needed while practising reading skills. Trace letters, spell words and more to unlock scenes from the Disney film. Spell words: Rearrange letters from words in the story to make smaller words – grow flowers for Olaf with every new word! Trace letters: Unleash Elsa's powers to write letters in the sky and create a dazzling sculpture of an object that begins with each letter. Build sentences: Help Olaf arrange flowers and create complete sentences. Then, adorn Elsa's ice sculptures with the bouquets. Suitable for 4-7 years, teaches Reading and Writing skills including Grammar, Handwriting, Spelling, Story Sequence, and Word Building.


Cooking! Recipes on the Road Digital Game for LeapPad, RRP $22.00 https://store.leapfrog.com/en-au/app-centre/p/cooking-recipes-on-the-road/_/Aprod58515-96914 Use math skills to cook up the best food in town. Cook up fun by following recipes, selecting ingredients, and serving tasty food to hungry customers. Heat and Weigh: Heat food to the correct temperature, calculate the right weight and be ready to double an order at a moment's notice. Pick and Measure: Pick the correct ingredients and measure the proper amounts to prepare exactly what your customers crave so they'll keep coming back for more. Order up! Assemble a dish, one ingredient at a time, in an orderly manner. See how you ‘stack up’ and earn ‘tips’ for a job well done. From measuring and counting ingredients, to calculating weight and doubling an order, cooking is naturally chock-full of maths. Enjoy the fun of cooking and explore decimals, fractions, percentages, and a variety of maths topics that translate to the real world. Suitable for 5-8 years, teaches Maths skills including Addition, Measurement, Multiplication, and Subtraction. For preschoolers and kids aged 3 years and over, the LeapPad Digital Games are available from the LeapFrog App Centre as a digital download.



It’s been a busy few weeks in lockdown for Macie and Macie as they have worked their way through these new LeapPad games. Madison got the flare for cooking and recipes now with Recipes on the Road, and the Frozen Learning Game, well – do I really need to explain?! If you’ve got a child who isn’t completely obsessed by Frozen, you must be one of the few escapees! She absolutely loves it, though, and with so much learning happening at the same time, it’s fine by me!

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