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Emily
I saw a fellow blogger post on facebook about a cool new iPhone/iPod/iPad/iWhatever app he found for his kids. Alien Buddies. I consider myself an app collector, if you will, so I downloaded it right away. Okay, so less of a collector and more of a hoarder, I have about 120 apps in itunes right now saying they have updates. Lord knows how many total I have. But I digress…
So Alien Buddies. I downloaded it and started playing with it with Brady. In his various therapies we are working on matching and drawing straight lines. The matching game in the app has 8 different modes, colors, shapes, numbers and letters and then sound versions of all of those as well.
When in the color matching the entire alien is the color of the circle on the space ship, you drag and drop him in and viola! A match. What is really great is you don’t have to be exact. Drag him just near the ship and he’ll jump right in. This makes it perfect for tiny hands. If you download it onto an ipad it makes it even easier for younger kids as the screen and aliens are a lot larger.
The app also has connect the dots scenes and a sticker page where you can create your own pictures with stickers you earn by playing the games. The graphics are super cute and appealed to my 7 year-old as well. He flew through the games to earn his little brother more stickers and helped him make pictures with them.
Since playing the game Brady has gotten a lot better with tracing straight lines with his fingers. He’s also getting a lot better at color matching. What he’s not so great at is giving me my iPhone back. Hmmmmm…
Right now the app is only $0.99 (until 12/31) so make sure you download this fast! If you have a toddler or young child with special needs, I highly recommend it!
Here is some more information about the app:
The Alien Buddies iPhone/iPad app is designed with a variety of games and play modes to suit a range of ages from Preschool to Kindergarten.
The games include:
Matching: color, shape, letter and number recognition (audio and visual modes)
Dot to Dot: sequential counting, fine motor skills
Stickers: creative free play, fine motor skills (over 40 stickers and 8 landscapes)
Download Alien Buddies: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alien-buddies/id469461540?ls=1&mt=8
You can find more information about the app and a demo video on the Alien Buddies website:
Alien Buddies Website: http://www.alien-buddies.com
Artgig Apps website: http://www.artgigapps.com/
Want to win the app? Visit the Alien Buddies website then come back here and leave a comment on your favorite feature! Easy Peasy! Contest ends Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 11:59 pm MT. 5 Winners will be chosen at random. For full list of sweepstakes rules visit our sweepstakes info page.
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disclosure: I bought this app on my own then contacted artgigapps on twitter to see if I could giveaway some codes. Thoughts, opinions, etc. are all mine and honest. No compensation was made for this post. As with everything I review on this site, I genuinely love this product and want to share it with all of you.
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I like the number matching.
Our 3 year old would love teh matching number feature – thanks
I love the stickers feature. I think my little monster would too!
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I like that it has a lot of options
mightynaynay(at)cs.com
I live that there are 12 different pictures showing this app. The aliens are so cute & I love that its all so colorfull.
farrah_jo@yahoo.com
I love that it’s so easy to use, and the stickers part seems like the best that Monster would love! Thank you for this giveaway!!!
Marcella Cook
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I love that it is a great educational game, my boys like stickers so they would enjoy playing
I love that their are so many things to do on it! The dot to dot and the matching are my favorite. Would benefit my 3 year old!
I like the idea of my granddaughters playing educational games
I love all the bright colors and that this is such a good learning program. It would be perfect for my 3 year old granddaughter
i love every thing about it its just amazing you can learn about every thing count learn letters shapes number who ever came up with this i smart fantastic my daughter jaida would die for thid shed love it its just an amazing ap
Stickers
We have an ipad and my son loves playing games. I would love the addition of games that are educational and are age appropriate. Thanks!!!
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I love that they have stickers! tightwadinutah at gmail dot com
Great learning games for toddlers!
I like that it seems to have enough options as well that the matching by numbers is not just your typical way of doing 1-10 . This is so perfect for special needs kids such as my son with autism. Thank you for the opportunity
I like that it seems to have enough options so my grandson wont get bored!
Good learning tool.
Will this work on an ipod touch? My kids love stickers and I think that would be their favorite feature.
has good games for my grandson to learn with mverno@roadrunner.com
this app looks awsome- we just got my son the preschool prep dvd set whihc he loves and htis would be a great reinforcment tool to help teach him and he loves our i pad… thanks for the chance- luckyladybug67@yahoo.com
We are currently working on our colors so this is great!
Santa brought us an iPad so I’m looking for kid friendly and educational apps.+
Um….I think one of this kids added to my comment. We like the stickers, too.
I love the stcikers feature, much better on the iPad than all over their walls/door!
I love how it has stickers! My son would love this!
I love this!
Zoe plays with my iPad ALL the time, but it’s hard to find GOOD apps for her that she doesn’t quickly get bored with. My favorite feature would have to be the stickers. Stickers on the iPad and NOT on my wall? Oh, yeah! lol As far as a feature that would be my favorite for how it could benefit my kids, I’d probably go with the matching… but it’s a hard choice because they’re all great!
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I love that the matching by numbers is not just your typical 1-10 you can also do 1-20 or 1-50 which is awesome considering I have a 3yr old, 5 yr old & 8 yr old who would probably love this game and each kid could do it with the numbers they’re comfortable with.
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