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The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends - Play and Explore app is a fun, safe for kids, educational app for children ages five years and younger. This app is available in both the App Store and Google Play for a one-time purchase of $4.99 and does not feature any in-app purchases or advertisements.
What is The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Play & Explore?
The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends - Play and Explore app is a fun, educational app for children ages five years and younger.
3D pop-up graphics, paired with delightful animation, create an eye-popping and engaging platform for kids to play and learn alongside their favorite Eric Carle characters. The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends - Play and Explore app is available, in both the App Store and Google Play, for a one-time purchase of $4.99 and does not feature any in-app purchases or advertisements.
Each “scene” begins with an educational overview of the animal, what it eats, its life cycle, etc., in the form of a 3D book which opens to text with illustrations. A narrator reads the text so it’s easy for little ones to follow along.
Once the educational text has been read, the scene then opens to a game for children to play. For example, for The Very Hungry Caterpillar, children learn that caterpillars begin life as an egg and once hatched, they eat continuously in order to grow. The caterpillar then spins itself into a silk cocoon and emerges as a butterfly.
At the end of the scene, the narrator introduces the game, telling children that they will win the “healthy eater” badge by navigating their caterpillar so that it can eat fruits while avoiding sweets.
The game is simplistic, with children just tapping fruits as they appear on the scrolling screen to navigate the caterpillar to those fruits. If a sweet treat is tapped the narrator tells children that “too many sweet treats give the caterpillar a stomachache.”
To earn a Quiz Whiz badge, children listen to a text that provides educational information and details about animals. Afterwards, they are served questions with details about the animals that appear in the animated scene, such as a physical detail/trait or a color, and answer by tapping the animal on the screen.
After answering five questions correctly, children are awarded with a Quiz Whiz badge.
Is The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Play & Explore safe for my kids?
Parents should know that The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends - Play and Explore app is an educational app, featuring Eric Carle’s beloved characters. It’s important to note that the original story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, does not appear in this app.
Children will recognize their favorite Eric Carle characters as they proceed through the puzzles and games in the app, which includes Mister Seahorse, The Very Quiet Cricket, Brown Bear, The Mixed-Up Chameleon, and 10 Little Rubber Duckies, in addition to The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Children will enjoy the 3D graphics and animation that brings their favorite Carle characters to life.
Simple matching games test young children’s skills as they feed The Very Hungry Caterpillar the number and types of fruits as instructed. Children can also try their hand at puzzles featuring beautiful Eric Carle illustrations.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends - Play and Explore app features a selection of puzzles, at varying difficulty levels. The easiest level of puzzles contains six pieces, and then progresses upward with three additional levels of difficulty.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends - Play and Explore app is a simple educational app that parents of young children can feel comfortable letting their children play.
The mix of educational information, paired with the bright, colorful illustrations and characters Eric Carle is famous for, makes this app engaging for small children. This app is safe for kids.
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