My Zoo Animals app review: a Toddler's Seek & Find interactive activity book

Introduction

My Zoo Animals: Toddler's Seek & Find - An interactive activity book is an iPad and iPhone app to play along with your child. Many apps will give you a specific written or pictorial object to find; however, this one allows the parent to ask the child to find the object, and then the object will do a motion.

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Seek and Find Together

My Zoo Animals: Toddler's Seek & Find is different from other apps in that it allows the parent and toddler to play together. This is not an app to hand to your child, although they will have fun that way too. This is an app that you sit down together, and ask the child “Can you find the turtle?” When your child taps the turtle, it comes out of its shell.

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While the child could tap the turtle on their own, this app is great to do together and share the excitement of seeing the turtle do the action, the joy of finding the object, and so on. My two-year-old loves the object hunt games, and always asks to play with me. I love watching her sing “there it is!” It is a fun activity that we can do together, just as we could play a board game.

Bonding Time Together

My Zoo Animals: Toddler's Seek & Find is an app that encourages bonding time between child and care giver. If you have older children, then big brother or sister could also play with the toddler. My son, who is 11, has played this game with my two-year-old, and she just loves engaging with him.

I would also encourage grandparents to try this app. Technology can be intimidating for older people who don’t use it every day, but this is an app that they can sit with the child to play. All you have to do is tap the objects in the environment, so anyone from the technology illiterate to the toddler learning can play!

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Free
• Three environments drawn in Where’s Waldo style
• Creatures and objects move when you tap them
• Can play with older siblings, grandparents, and more

Cons

• Tap-happy toddlers might overwhelm the animations as only two can go at once

Final Thoughts

My Zoo Animals: Toddler's Seek & Find - An interactive activity book is a great seek and find app for young children. Your child will love interacting with you using the app to find objects that are in the picture. You can ask them to find an object, or simply let them explore the picture. There is no time limit, and no rules. You just play with your toddler exploring the pictures. Overall, this is a simple app to use, and I would suggest it to anyone who wants to give grandparents a chance to play an app with the child.