App Review: Left Right Pup - Teaches Children About the Concepts of Left and Right

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Left Right Pup is an interactive activity app for young children to learn and master the concepts of left and right while being entertained by a collecting game. On the main menu, the user can choose to go to the park and play as the pup or go to the beach and play as the surfer. Once you’ve chosen, the screen loads into the corresponding environment where the user will have to search and collect for specific items. There will be an instruction to either go left or right. Tapping on the correct button will make the character walk left or right into a new screen where an item will appear randomly. These items are only on screen for a couple of seconds so be alert and collect them quickly! Kids can continue playing until they have successfully collected all the items. Kids will definitely be learning about left and right directionality while developing focus, concentration, and quick reactions through the game.

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Visually, the combination of styles is interesting. The characters are rendered in 3D, the items are in 2D illustrations, while the backgrounds are done in a collage style animation or textured materials. This gives the app a distinct look and feel.

The main purpose of the app is to teach about left and right directionality and it does it well. The characters, when not moving left or right, have their backs to the user. This makes sure that the character’s orientation is the same as the user so as to avoid confusion. When you choose either left or right, the characters also raise either their left or right arms. This small detail serves to further reinforce the concepts of left and right.

The searching and collecting game is there to entertain users while learning about left and right but at the same time, it also develops focus, concentration, and quick reactions.

Overall

Left Right Pup is an interactive activity app on the Ipad that teaches and lets children master left and right directionality while entertaining them with a search and collect game that also develops focus, concentration, and quick reactions.