Original Pack, 2nd ed.

Title: Original Pack, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Creation & Sound Module - Ages 5+
Release Date: 04/15/25
Type: STEAM Academy
Brand: Albert Whitman,Arty Mouse,Highlights,Mister Clay,Sesame Street,The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: The goal of the Creation & Sound Module is to teach kids how creativity and self-expression apply to identifying and solving problems. Topics in this module include art, sound, color, tempo, rhyming, and literature.

STEAM Academy offers an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills learned in the classroom and connects them to things kids see every day.
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Arty Mouse Shapes (App)
Arty Mouse loves to get stuck into fun creative activities, which is why he is always smiling! He is the perfect enthusiastic mentor for young children just getting to grips with early learning concepts. In Arty Mouse Shapes, Arty Mouse and his colourful friends engage, enthuse and empower little learners, helping to fast-track them in key early learning shape identification and picture-making skills. This fun animated app for boys and girls aged 3 to 6 has 12 exciting interactive shape activities to choose from, with mini play-again games to discover within each one. Covering a selection of shape-related skills including identifying, drawing, completing and manipulating to create pictures, this app also helps to develop important motor skills for learning to write. Part of the award-winning Arty Mouse Early Learning Through Art product family. Get going with Arty Mouse and create with shapes! Over 1 million Arty Mouse books sold worldwide. KEY FEATURES • Animation • A

Arty Mouse Tracing (App)
Arty Mouse loves to get stuck into fun creative activities, which is why he is always smiling! He is the perfect enthusiastic mentor for young children just getting to grips with early learning concepts. In Arty Mouse Tracing, Arty Mouse and his colourful friends engage, enthuse and empower little learners, helping to fast-track them by developing their motor skills and confidence. This fun animated app for boys and girls aged 3 to 6 has 12 exciting interactive tracing activities to choose from, with mini play-again games to discover within each one. Covering a selection of tracing-related skills including tracing vertical, horizontal and curved lines to create pictures, this app helps to develop important motor skills for learning to write. Part of the award-winning Arty Mouse Early Learning Through Art product family. Get into tracing and create with Arty Mouse! Over 1 million Arty Mouse books sold worldwide. KEY FEATURES • Animation • Available in 7 languages: English, Spa

Clean Up Song, The (app)
The lesson is over and it's time to clean up. Join Mister Clay and help clean up. This song was made to calmly help your class transition from one activity to the next. Have fun and clean up with Mister Clay.

Create Your Own Puppets - Bea Unicorn (App)
Bea and her friend Tyler are crafting their own cool puppets for their cardboard tube puppet show! Grab some cardboard tubes, paper, glue, and whatever else you like to make your own unique puppets at home!

DNA Play - Create Monsters (App)
Create your own incredible monsters and transform them in real-time with DNA Play! Over 200 billion unique life forms at your fingertips! • BBC Focus Magazine "App of the Week" • The Guardian - Featured in "Apps of the Month" • "Beautifully realised, generating monsters that manage to be both cute and educational" - Financial Times • "Adorable open-ended genetics app gives kids mutation power" - Common Sense Media • "A lively, entertaining way for kids to learn about how the way we look comes from our genes." - AppAdvice • "Wildly creative, brave, and most of all outrageously fun" - TeachersWithApps DNA Play introduces kids to the basic concept of DNA in an easy pure-play style. Learn how to build creatures by completing a series of simple DNA puzzles. Get creative and experiment with crazy mutations of different body parts by altering genes. Have fun playing with your monsters and change their form in real-time while they dance, skate, eat or sleep! CREATE & MUTATE Sta

Easy Magic Tricks - Bea Unicorn (App)
Bea and her friend Tyler are having a Magic Show and revealing the secrets to how their favorite magic tricks work! Try to do these fun tricks at home and amaze your own family and friends!

Little Tikes: Let’s Play (app)
Little Tikes: Let’s Play, which allows kids to have fun while learning their numbers, colors, geometric shapes, and nature. Little Tikes: Let’s Play app features kids’ favorite Let’s Go Cozy Coupe™ characters – Cozy, Chief, Doc, Fairy, Fire Truck, and Princess – to help guide children through the different learning areas using animation, sounds, music, voices and visual aids, helping them learn while having fun through amazing adventures. With more than 45 activities developed by education professionals and experts, Little Tikes: Let’s Play is organized into four learning areas: numbers, shapes, colors, and nature. Children will explore and strengthen their cognitive skills like memory, perception, concentration, reasoning, calculation, navigation, creativity, and imagination while having hours of fun. Included among the activities are counting, tracing, memory games, ordering, geometry, coloring, puzzles, taking care of animals, and more.

On the Farm with Mister Clay and The SOKS (app)
Join Mister Clay and his friends from the kids band The SOKS for this hilarious new take on the classic Old McDonald song. What kind of farm has dogs, chickens, narwhals, and six headed llamas? Welcome to Old Man Dinglehopper's farm, a field trip you'll never forget.

Song in a Rainstorm (app)
A celebration of a remarkable, overlooked musical great.

Spiral mixer (App)
Make an unlimited number of spiral designs changing the shape, color, and thickness of lines to help create your own special gallery!

Storybook Animations: Enjoy the Show! (App)
Little Bunny's friends put on a talent show in the backyard. Squirrel feels badly that he has nothing to contribute, but at the end of the show, he realizes it is just important to be a member of the audience.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Shapes and Colors (App)
The first in a series of innovative educational apps featuring Eric Carle’s much-loved character, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, this magical learning adventure introduces preschoolers to shapes and colors. You’ll love seeing your kids develop their reasoning skills – they'll love solving puzzles, exploring a beautiful 3D playground and having fun with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. When puzzles are completed, there are delightful and surprising interactions: watch as The Very Hungry Caterpillar floats away with a balloon, flowers magically grow, mechanical toys whirr into action, and hidden doorways open up for the Very Hungry Caterpillar to crawl into! Prepare to be amazed: your toddlers are a lot smarter than you might imagine! FEATURES Over 50 puzzles in six categories increase with difficulty to keep kids engaged and excited. They'll learn how to: • Recognise basic and advanced shapes • Sort and match shapes with similar colors • Compare light and dark shades