Highlights Shapes
Free Game
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About Highlights Shapes
Accompanied by a friendly fox — and other animal buddies along the way — young children will learn and practice matching, sorting and categorizing both shapes and colors through imaginative activity-filled worlds. Visit an ancient jungle, the magical deep sea, mysterious outer space and the sweet Arctic! The puzzle games are woven into engaging stories, and the games increase in challenge as you go.
Kids will benefit from:
· Development of critical thinking and problem solving skills
· Creativity and curiosity as they explore new worlds of geometric shapes and colors
· Confidence as they make decisions and advance to new levels
· Learning key math skills like matching, sorting and classifying by shapes and colors
· Identifying and naming 11 shapes and 11 colors
· Development of fine motor skills
· Security of an ad-free environment
Features:
· 3 progressing levels of challenge:
o Ancient Jungle Puzzle Pack – 4 shapes + 8 colors
o Magical Underwater Puzzle Pack – 8 shapes + 11 colors
o Mysterious Space Puzzle Pack – 11 shapes + 11 colors
· Optional FREE Sweet Arctic Puzzle Pack – 8 shapes + 11 colors
· Audio of up to 121 combinations of shapes and colors
· Hilarious surprises and delights to engage children along the way
· Track progress, skip and replay functions
· 3 language options (US English, UK English, Spanish)
This app is fun, creative, confidence building and developmentally appropriate — brought to you by the early childhood experts at Highlights and the Italian creative studio Colto.
Highlights Shapes for kids ages 2+ is an ideal first app and is easy for young children to play on their own. It’s playable in English (US + UK) and Spanish.
MORE ABOUT HIGHLIGHTS SHAPES
PREPARES CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL
As children progress through Highlights Shapes, they’ll develop creative thinking and essential problem solving skills, both critical for the start of formal schooling.
PROMOTES FUN, MEANINGFUL LEARNING
Highlights Shapes combines geometric, sorting and matching skills that are crucial for preschoolers to grasp, with the fun of an engaging, age-appropriate game. Children will learn valuable math and vocabulary skills all while having a blast traveling through new and exciting worlds!
PROMOTES CONFIDENCE AND CREATIVITY
In this game, children will foster confidence, creativity and curiosity as they make decisions, build colorful geometric scenes and explore three exciting environments.
DEVELOPS FINE MOTOR SKILLS
As children touch and drag each colorful shape, they’ll develop their fine motor skills.
INCREASES VOCABLUARY
As they correctly match and sort each object, children will hear their shapes and colors repeated aloud, helping them learn new words and increase their existing vocabularies.
ABOUT US
Highlights for Children
Founded by educators Dr. Garry and Caroline Myers in 1946, Highlights was built on the belief that “Children Are the World’s Most Important People™.” Today, 70 years later, every “Fun with a Purpose™” product is still designed to help children become their best selves: creative, curious, caring and confident.
Colto
Colto is creating imaginative and educational mobile play experiences for kids around the world based on original and branded properties. Our team — made up of a Mum/Teacher and talented Game Designers, Developers and Marketers — strives to develop high quality educational apps that kids love and parents trust. Our games are ethical, safe and designed to be non-addictive for kids.
Kids will benefit from:
· Development of critical thinking and problem solving skills
· Creativity and curiosity as they explore new worlds of geometric shapes and colors
· Confidence as they make decisions and advance to new levels
· Learning key math skills like matching, sorting and classifying by shapes and colors
· Identifying and naming 11 shapes and 11 colors
· Development of fine motor skills
· Security of an ad-free environment
Features:
· 3 progressing levels of challenge:
o Ancient Jungle Puzzle Pack – 4 shapes + 8 colors
o Magical Underwater Puzzle Pack – 8 shapes + 11 colors
o Mysterious Space Puzzle Pack – 11 shapes + 11 colors
· Optional FREE Sweet Arctic Puzzle Pack – 8 shapes + 11 colors
· Audio of up to 121 combinations of shapes and colors
· Hilarious surprises and delights to engage children along the way
· Track progress, skip and replay functions
· 3 language options (US English, UK English, Spanish)
This app is fun, creative, confidence building and developmentally appropriate — brought to you by the early childhood experts at Highlights and the Italian creative studio Colto.
Highlights Shapes for kids ages 2+ is an ideal first app and is easy for young children to play on their own. It’s playable in English (US + UK) and Spanish.
MORE ABOUT HIGHLIGHTS SHAPES
PREPARES CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL
As children progress through Highlights Shapes, they’ll develop creative thinking and essential problem solving skills, both critical for the start of formal schooling.
PROMOTES FUN, MEANINGFUL LEARNING
Highlights Shapes combines geometric, sorting and matching skills that are crucial for preschoolers to grasp, with the fun of an engaging, age-appropriate game. Children will learn valuable math and vocabulary skills all while having a blast traveling through new and exciting worlds!
PROMOTES CONFIDENCE AND CREATIVITY
In this game, children will foster confidence, creativity and curiosity as they make decisions, build colorful geometric scenes and explore three exciting environments.
DEVELOPS FINE MOTOR SKILLS
As children touch and drag each colorful shape, they’ll develop their fine motor skills.
INCREASES VOCABLUARY
As they correctly match and sort each object, children will hear their shapes and colors repeated aloud, helping them learn new words and increase their existing vocabularies.
ABOUT US
Highlights for Children
Founded by educators Dr. Garry and Caroline Myers in 1946, Highlights was built on the belief that “Children Are the World’s Most Important People™.” Today, 70 years later, every “Fun with a Purpose™” product is still designed to help children become their best selves: creative, curious, caring and confident.
Colto
Colto is creating imaginative and educational mobile play experiences for kids around the world based on original and branded properties. Our team — made up of a Mum/Teacher and talented Game Designers, Developers and Marketers — strives to develop high quality educational apps that kids love and parents trust. Our games are ethical, safe and designed to be non-addictive for kids.
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Game History & Updates
What's Changed
Minor improvements
Minor improvements
Version update Highlights Shapes was updated to version 1.2.2
More downloads Highlights Shapes reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads
What are users saying about Highlights Shapes
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I think it could be difficult concept to grasp at first. It will be an invaluable problem soviing teaching tool . Which has more than one level of play.
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This game needs a screen lock, and it also needs to move home screen to a multi-function button. Toddler loves the game, but accidentally hits buttons that stops the game often.
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My son, just turned 3, loves it. He is very proud that he can do it all by himself without help from me!
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my daughter of 2 years loves it, if only it has more levels, since she already have passed all the existing level there is,with flying colors, but still thank you for this app/game, and keep on developing these kinda of apps/games
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Purchased the 2nd and 3rd pack but couldn't access it. Sent a msg to highlights but didn't get any response. Felt like a scam.
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My two year old loves it. Thank you for the free, educational game.
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My boy absolutely loves this app!
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2 and 5 year old love this game. Makes waiting in the doctor's office or checkout line much less stressful.
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best app ever seen for childs
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My 2 year old loves it
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Good game for kiddos
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My son is days away from turning 2 & he loves this game. He's learning shapes & colors and also coordination.
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My little one asks you play every morning upon waking up.
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Love the app. If only it locked the screen.
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My daughter started playing this at 17 months. She is now 23 months and knows all of her colors and can name most of her shapes. She absolutely loves this games. I would love to see more levels, as we bought the extra levels and now she just likes replaying the hardest level. I would pay for more levels. Also, the only issue we have is the location of the home button. My daughter frequently hits it repeatedly by accident and ends up on the settings screen, so I have to unlock the touch app I use and get back to the puzzle.
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I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it once to see if the option to let me buy the extra levels works. I answer the math problem correctly, yet it doesnt let me get pass that. It freezes. My daughter loves the free game but thats all she can play with this game.
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Can't make a purchase. I want to buy the other levels but it won't let me enter my email address or info to buy more levels. Frustrating. I want to give you my money but I can't...
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I wish in played it before buying since the other levels were the same not teaching the ocean and space as I thought it might.
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I paid for the additional levels, but cannot access them. The app always crashes. I'm disappointed and irritated that the developer has not responded to my email.
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My son plays it. I got the other 2 also. Its teaching him colors and all his shapes plus more.
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Love this for my 2.5 yr-old. Beautiful graphics, cute sounds, clever ways the game changes as you match shapes. My son loves playing this game!!
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purchased the extra levels and now the game keeps crashing
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This a great app, our daughter just loves it.
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Got a new phone and it doesn't download what I purchased, the full version.
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Great for my 2-years old daughter
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My Grand daughter loves this one.
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Baby seems to really enjoy it
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Excellent
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My daughter loves the game but she has mastered all the levels. I wish that they would add more or maybe add a difficulty option.
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It isn't actually free. The first level is free, and then they charge you. Not worth keeping
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My daughter plays it over and over. She LOVES it! And it keeps her focus.
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My 2yo loves this, all the levels are great
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Awesome
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I thought the purchased levels would be progressively more difficult. They aren't. Granddaughter (aged 3 years 3 months) zoomed through all the levels in no time at all - so the money spent was money wasted, since she mastered all levels the first time around. No challenge, no fun.
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My son is almost 3 and has a speech deficit. He doesn't say Mama, Dada, or other common words. But he can say circle, triangle, and rectangle now. Had this app only for a week! Thank you, Highlights :-)
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This is perfect for my little ones! They love it, and I love that it doesn't have a bunch of pop-up ads. Plus, the settings button has a lock of sorts (asks a math question) and needs to be double tapped to open. Fun, educational, simple app for toddlers :)
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I use this app with a special needs client who is 3 yrs. old with down syndrome...he is awesome with this app
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2 1/2 yr.granddaughter loves it and has reinforced what she has already learned. She has learned matching shapes, the touch involved moving shapes and finer finger coordination.
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Only 3 lvls total on the full of version and wish there were more as my son loves it. Down side is the lvls really don't get too much harder. Add more and progressively harder lvls please
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It's one of the few toddler apps I was willing to buy the full version. It is just more of the same, but slightly more difficult (barely) but I don't regret it at all. My toddler and I both love it! This is his favorite game and I'm happy that he is learning shape recognition and hand-eye coordination.