Play to Create!, 2nd ed.

Title: Play to Create!, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Creativity - Ages 5+
Release Date: 02/19/21
Type: Launchpad Pack
Type: Theme-Based
Audience: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Launchpad Description: Kids will unleash their creativity and learn some early education basics with these interactive games, books, and sing-alongs.

- Play songs and discover different instruments
- Read along with interactive stories
- Paint by number
- Develop logic, spatial intelligence, and cognitive skills
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Balafon- Joko's World (App)
Joko’s Balafon is an app that celebrates beautiful wooden tune percussion. Featuring 3 instruments; the Balafon and Gyil of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Marimba, the national musical instrument of Guatemala. Through game based challenges you can learn to play songs that stretch across Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Ghana and over to Guatemala. Retrace a musical journey across Africa and on to the Americas. The Balafon is one of the instruments of the Mande Jeli, otherwise known as Griots. Through our unique guidebook let us introduce you to the descendants of a tradition of bards dating back to the ancient advanced empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhay. These master artists record and recite histories and retell them through song.

BeeAmazed! (App)
OVER 20 ACTIVITIES. • Does the hive need a boy or a girl egg? Pick one! • Many Mazes full of fun teach different roles bees play in the beehive. • Plant your own pollinator Garden! • Lots of fun activities to help learn about the world of bees! BASED IN SCIENCE, FUELED BY FUN. Have fun while learning about who’s who in the beehive. Fun interactive play with a real educational experience offers over 20 activities designed to spark curiosity about bees and nature. Learn while you play! Let curiosity lead the way. • Build your own Pollinator Garden. • Help the Queen Bee choose which egg to lay • Baby Bees are hungry, Help the Nurse Bee feed them. • The Attendant Bee works hard to feed the Queen Bee, Be her assistant! • Drag the Builder Bee to help build the Honeycomb Cell. • Learn the Waggle Dance with our Forager Bee. • Help a Drone chase the Queen Bee. • Dress the BeeKeeper • Harvest Honey– Tilt your maze back and forth to drip honey through the honeycomb. • Wat

Blox 3D Junior (App)
Blox 3D Junior is a fun and easy way for kids to learn 3D modelling. Create beautiful objects in a simple and intuitive manner using tap and pull. Blox has been designed to develop children's creativity and visualization skills. Unique turntable mode rotates and builds 3D models as a teaching tool.

Curious Critters Club: Mystery of Caddy (App)
Meet Emma and her friend Elliot. As members of the Curious Critters Club, they are dedicated to the task of discovering new critters for science. Sometimes the creatures turn out to be extraordinary! One day by Cadboro Bay, Emma and Elliot hear of recent sightings of Caddy the sea monster. It's not long before the two curious adventurous are hot on the trail. Along the way, they encounter other curious creatures, some of them with harmful intentions towards Caddy. Luckily Emma and Elliot are there to help save the day. This exciting interactive book is loaded with interactivity, animation, music and sound on every page. It also features a range of options which allows you to experience the book in a style that suits you best. STORY HIGHLIGHTS • Your interactions drives the story forward • Tilt your device for a 3D parallax effect • Words appear as they are narrated • Fantastic illustrations and animation • Original music and sound • Story told by Canadian pe

HangArt (App)
Your favorite spelling game with a creative twist! Play hangman by yourself or with a friend. Draw pictures that animate and playback. Then, record digital stories with your winning words. The illustrations are multicultural and allow all kids to feel included. The letter-tracing feature is a great way to practice penmanship and letter recognition. It’s great for older kids too, giving them the freedom to draw and create stories as well. HangArt is perfect for individual play, entire family fun, and the classroom. As seen in The New York Times’ "10 Children's Apps for Summer Road Trips." "Culturally diverse drawings and a specially constructed, easy-to-read font welcome kids from a variety of backgrounds and abilities. A jewel of a game … HangArt is a fun challenge, and the open-ended drawing board and storytelling sections let kids take the lead.” ~ Common Sense Media --- UNIQUE FEATURES • Play Hangman with 200 K-3 sight words and original, diverse animated illustrations •

Little Tiger (App)
In this app, children can experience many exciting adventures with a fire truck, a spaceship, and a submarine. Children have complete control over each vehicle and can even choose their own driver and co-driver . ? 4 cute, funny animals: Panda ??, Tiger ??, Unicorn ?? and Elephant ?? ?15 super exciting mini games and many other challenges. ? Stunning day and night scenes. PLAY WITH THE FIRE TRUCK ?? • Become a firefighter and take the fire truck on tour • Put out fires with your finger • Rescue the cat from the tree • Clear obstacles from the road using the crane FLY WITH THE SPACESHIP ?? • Ready, set, go: Launch your rocket into space • Assemble your crew • Head for undiscovered planets and collect stones, hearts, and diamonds using the crane • Activate the super boost and discover new planets DIVE THE SUBMARINE ?? • Go water-skiing and show off your cool jumps • Race your boat over boat jumps • Relax during a round of fishing • You can convert the boat int

Migalolo (App)
Have you ever wanted to swim with a dolphin or sing with a starfish? Now you can! Jump into Migalolo: The Ocean Musical! This new app from award-winning composer Shirley Choi invites children of all ages to experience and learn about the ocean in a fun, interactive way. Migalolo features nine chapters which supplies over ninety minutes of educational, musical fun! Sing along with original songs as you watch rich graphics that show off scores of diverse sea creatures in their colourful undersea environment. Kids will learn about important conservation topics, the science of the seas, and what they can do to help protect the Earth’s oceans. They will meet new friends like Henry a boy who is turned into a dolphin, his pet cat Iko, a wise turtled named Yai, and tons more. Swim along with Henry and Iko as they explore and meet all kinds of characters from rapping trout to sassy seabirds! This app explores many important ocean topics, but does so in a fun and engaging way. The catchy tune

Pettson's Inventions 2 (App)
The sequel to the praised Pettson's Inventions. Bigger, better and more fun than ever! Help old man Pettson and his cat Findus build their amazing inventions! Which of the objects should be included and where do they fit in the machinery? Drag and drop the parts to their right spot and watch the invention go! As usual a secret waits to be unlocked for those who manages to complete everything. A fun and pedagogic app that teaches logic and stimulates creativity for children of all ages. - A whopping 37 ingenious inventions to solve! - Possibility to increase difficulty by including fake parts in the inventions. - Voices in English, German and Swedish. - Fantastic original artwork! - Kid-friendly interface! - No in-app purchases. Keep inventing! Check out Pettson's Inventions 1.

Shiny The Firefly (App)
This adorable game, set in the middle of a picturesque garden, has you helping Shiny, the cute little firefly, to find his babies. You’ll have to fly, run, hide and defend yourself against a legion of enemies. Stubborn mosquitoes, hungry toads, mischievous plants, sneaky wasps, endlessly long centipedes and lots of other little, dangerous garden dwellers are going to get in your way and make your life difficult. Your reflexes will be tested, as well as your wit and intellect as you navigate through this beautiful, colorful world helping Shiny in his search. All kinds of different animations let you know how Shiny’s feeling. So you’ll always know if he’s feeling happy, concerned, tired or angry. That will help you solve the trickiest situations in the game. Use your ability to shine skillfully: the babies can only follow Shiny when he is lit up, but that also makes him visible to his enemies… Can you reunite Shiny with his family? FEATURES: • Great, high-quality graphics

World of Instruments (App)
This world is full of instruments and sounds you may have not known ever existed. Come discover the magical sounds created by different instruments. Ever wondered an instruments origin or the unique sounds they make? Like the Quijada, which is a percussion instrument made from a horses jawbone! Well now you can answer questions like these in World of Instruments. Help!!! Joko sort, name and locate all his father’s legendary collection of instruments, while unlocking trophies the rarer the trophy the more masterful you are. Play the sounds, see their unique design and read their origins to heighten your ethnomusicology and leave you bobbing you’re head.