This is an interactive story about the Hedgehog and his friends, with a few dozen educational tasks and mini-games for children 4-6 years of age. The game was designed by a professional child psychologist and is based on the materials she has been using in her work.
The app features 2 modes:
Mode 1 - Story with 5 chapters with alternating narration and plot-related tasks
Mode 2 - 16 mini-games, each with 3 levels of difficulty. While playing those mini-games, the child develops concentration, attention capacity, working memory, logic, and spatial intelligence. By training these cognitive abilities, your child will be successful at school and easily learn and process increasing information volumes.
In the Lite version, you can play through the first chapter of the story with 5 mini-games. The full version contains all 5 chapters and all 16 mini-games.
In the 1st chapter, you learn about the main character and search for the lost shadow of the Mouse, the Hedgehog's friend. In the 2nd chapter, the Hedgehog cleans up his house and gets a visit from his friend, the Squirrel. In the 3rd chapter the Hedgehog travels to a Geometry Land in his dream. In the 5th chapter, the Hedgehog and his friends build a new house, which turns out to be not as easy as they expected.
The following tasks await you:
Find differences between pictures,
Find similar objects among a group
Deliver a letter to the correct address,
Assemble a puzzle,
Find mistakes in a picture,
Classify objects,
Find an object which is not like the others,
Place pictures in the correct order,
Find missing pieces of pictures,
Solve a maze,
Find numbers in the correct order,
Warn a friend of danger by pressing the alert button,
Solve a sudoku puzzle with objects and geometric shapes,
Find all objects of the required shape,
Find hidden objects,
Recall the colors of different shapes,
Find an error in a sequence,
Decorate a cake,
Match a key to a lock and more.
The minigames have 3 levels of difficulty:
easy - small kids (4 year olds)
normal - preparation for school (5 years)
hard - elementary school (6 years)
Hedgehog Academy's educational games and apps are aimed at development of cognitive processes of children in preschool age (3-6 years). Commonly, games of "edutainment" type focus on learning numbers, letters, shapes or facts. However, pedagogical experience shows that such games mostly train mechanical memory and aren't enough. It's important for preschoolers to have cognitive abilities developed, too. If brain functions are trained well, the child will have higher IQ and learn any school material easily.
If you have an Android phone or tablet, your kids most certainly find it engaging and fun. Tablets are surely a great way to distract children and keep them quiet. But why not also make the time your child spends with the device a useful one? Let the game teach your son or daughter in a playful way so that in the end they come out better prepared for school.