Product Name: Scout’s ABC Garden App for iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad

Product Information: “LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc., a leader in education innovation and the creator of many award-winning products, today announced that its new ‘Scout’s ABC Garden’ app for iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad™ is now available on the App Store. ‘Scout’s ABC Garden’ app brings LeapFrog’s beloved and top-selling plush toys, Scout and Violet, to life as they help teach letters and letter sounds.

‘Scout’s ABC Garden’ app is fully loaded with features that have made LeapFrog a leader in the learning space. Features encourage children to explore letter names and sounds step by step, and each child’s experience is customized based on his or her name, favorite food, favorite color and favorite animal. This personalization is carried throughout the game, delivering game content tailored to a child’s individual interests.

“LeapFrog is bringing everything we know about learning and fun to the app marketplace with our adorable and very successful puppies, Scout and Violet,” said Craig Hendrickson, senior vice president and chief product officer for LeapFrog. “We are taking personalization to a higher level by alerting parents when their child is learning, and giving parents the ability to share these important learning milestones with friends and family through email and social channels.”

Swipe. Tap. Fun!

With the ‘Scout’s ABC Garden’ app kids can explore Scout’s garden by touching and triggering fun and delightful sounds and animations like interactive clouds, bubbles, ticklish gophers, and Scout and Violet’s virtual radio that plays traditional kid-favorite songs. Kids can even rub Scout’s or Violet’s belly to hear a song with their name, or grow their own letter garden.

Other key aspects of the app include:

• A is for Achievement. The app is customized to each child’s level of learning, helping every child learn about letters and sounds at his or her own pace.
• B is for Bragging. Alerted when learning happens, proud parents can also share in their child’s learning achievements. With each accomplished goal, not only does the child receive a badge or trophy, but parents are alerted to their child’s achievement which they can then celebrate and share via social channels, including Facebook.
• C is for Customization. A main ingredient of the app’s appeal is its deep level of personalization. With the capacity to hold up to three profiles, a parent can customize the app for different children, including their favorite foods, colors and animals, so each can experience unique game play.

Purchase Information: The ‘Scout’s ABC Garden’ app is available for $3.99 from the App Store on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, or at www.itunes.com/appstore.

My Thoughts: My girls know their way around my iPod Touch better than I do!  It’s crazy how fast these kids catch onto technology.  They will be teaching me stuff soon!  So needless to say they are always asking me to download a new game/learning tool onto my iPod Touch so I was excited when Leapfrog asked me (well us actually) to review their new iTunes app called Scout’s ABC Garden.

If you know Leapfrog then you are probably familiar with Scout and Violet.  They are Leapfrog dogs and they teach your children in a fun way.   In this app your child can play with either Scout or Violet and learn their alphabet while growing a garden.  It’s really cute and  my 3 year old LOVED it.  You can customize it to your child (up to 3) and if you give them your email address you’ll receive email updates when you child completes another goal and earns a trophy.

It’s really cute and the girls had fun playing with it.

What we LIKED about Scout’s ABC Garden:

• You can customize it for each child (up to 3) with their name, favorite color, favorite food, favorite animal and learning level.  Then they can log into their own account so the learning is continued at the same place they left off the time before.  With two children at very different learning levels, this is a PLUS.
• My 3 year old can learn uppercase and lowercase letters.
• There is a duck in the pond that quacks familiar songs so my littlest one sang along.. she loves to sing!
• You can interact with Scout or Violet by scratching their head, rubbing their belly, giving them a hi-5 and a few other ways. When you interact with them, you get a reaction from them and it’s different each time.  So they are learning cause and effect as well!
• When you touch Scout or Violets collar they will sing a song that is personalized to your child (name & favorites)
• It will entertain my 3 year old when I need her to be entertained, like in the grocery store or at the gas station and she is learning at the same time.  I like that!

What we Didn’t Like about Scout’s ABC Garden:

• It’s not really for my 6 year old.  Not that it’s a bad thing but I couldn’t find anywhere in the information I was sent and age level so I’d say it’s more for pre-schoolers.  My Kindergartner was board after a bit and was looking for more.
• It takes a LOT to earn more trophy’s.  When you go into the dog house you can see the trophy’s you can earn.  When you touch each one it will tell you what you can do to earn them.  But your playing the same game (planting seeds and watering the seeds) over and over again to earn those trophies.  I have a feeling even  my 3 year old may lose interest after a while to earn more.  I wish there was at least one other thing to do in the garden, or at least something different… for variety.

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Disclosure: I received a FREE Download of Scout’s ABC Garden for my review. This did not influence my post and as always, my words are my own.