What it is
Moon Kids is twenty-five small games in one app. Letters and numbers for the youngest, then matching, patterns and rhymes, then spelling, arithmetic, storytelling and a little science — a ladder a child climbs over several years rather than a single game they outgrow in a week.
The games began life in the browser on Tunes on the Moon, our children's channel and site. Moon Kids brings them together as one native app, so they work on a tablet on a plane as well as they do on a laptop at the kitchen table.
Every game is narrated. The voices are recorded clips we generate ourselves — never the device's built-in text-to-speech, which is exactly the flat robotic reading a four-year-old learning the alphabet should not be copying.
Three levels, one ladder
The app is organised by age rather than by subject, so you start a child where they are and the app grows with them. Every game is listed here — no level is a mystery box.
One game for each of the first ideas — letters, numbers, animals, colours and shapes. Free, permanently.
Reading and counting become games with rules — matching, patterns, rhymes and a little speed.
Spelling, arithmetic, storytelling and science, for children who have outgrown tapping the right picture.
What it will not do
The part a parent actually needs to know before handing over the tablet.
We will let you know when Moon Kids reaches Google Play and the App Store.
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