Safari Tales: An Adventure in Literacy
The game features Safari animals, mini games, artifacts and relics to discover and collect. During play children also learn facts about the environment they are exploring which not only helps with reading skills but also educates them about Africa.
One of Keira’s favourite mini games is bathing the animals with fruit juice to change their colour and fur patterns. It’s a lot of fun and it keeps her engaged for quite a while before she wants to move on to other parts of the game.
Keira isn’t able to read yet but with my help we had some fun asking the in-game guide, Darwin, plenty of questions. The app actually makes use of Apple’s SIRI technology to allow players to construct different questions which are then answered by Darwin with interesting facts. To create questions for Darwin the player simply selects words and form a sentence. This is helpful for teaching/learning proper sentence structures.
There are of course other fun activities in the game from a musical band, “The Jungle Beat Animals”, through to learning finger demands to get animals to move.
The only issue with the game that I found was that it is a bit difficult to move the animals around, especially for Keira who easily gets frustrated by running around in circles and bumping into trees.
As a family we love that at the end of the game the app actually generates a unique storybook about your child’s Safari adventure. The storybook itself is interactive and encourages children to expand their vocabulary as you are able to switch through various synonyms at different points in the story.
Parents who wish to monitor usage of SAFARI TALES need only setup the settings in Parent Corner. From here, access to the game can be PIN-restricted, parents can set their child’s reading age and can control game length from a variety of session times, ensuring playtime fits your rules.
Overall, SAFARI TALES is a fun game loaded with educational opportunities that truly engage young minds.
Safari Tales is available now on iOS, Android and Amazon.
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Join in the adventure at www.safaritalesgame.com. For more information visit www.kuatostudios.com and follow @KuatoStudios on Twitter and Facebook.
My daughter used to love games like this as a child. She would have been all over this one.
What a fun little educational game. I love how it combines interactive visuals with education in vocabulary.
What a fun looking yet educational sounding game. I think I would have enjoyed it as a child. x
This looks like a great game. I will have to download this when my niece and nephew come over.
How fun! This is such a cute game. And it is a great way to get better.
That is great that your Daughter doesn’t wake you up in the morning. Having fun games to play makes it easier for her.
This looks like a great way for kids to learn. I will have to share this with my friends with little ones.
This game looks like a lot of fun. I bet my kids would like it.
I love that this promotes and encourages literacy. It is so important to get kids excited about reading.
This looks like a fun way for kids to learn! I love that! Thanks for sharing 🙂
This sounds like a fun adventure. I will download this. I’m sure the girls will love this.
This is a great interactive game for the little ones. I will recommend this to my friend who owns a preschool. She and her students would love this!
Oh how fun and super cute. I’m pretty sure my kiddos would love this. We’ll have to check it out!
I must remember to tell my daughter about this fun little educational game.
Looks like a fun app. Will have to check it out for my niece. Thanks for the review.
This sounds like a great app. for kids, especially for when they want to play around with your phone or tablet, this would be great waiting for appointments so they don’t get bored of waiting!!
I have twin nieces that really love playing games on their grandma’s tablet. This looks like something that they would really enjoy and learn from while having fun.
This looks like such a great, educational game!