iTunes App Review: Trucks HD – by Duck Duck Moose”

Trucks HD – by Duck Duck Moose – Duck Duck Moose

Released: May 2, 2012

ABOUT THE APP:

Welcome to Trucks! Trucks includes 5 different activities: Soap and rinse a car in a carwash, drive a garbage truck, tow a car with a tow truck and fix a flat tire, dump dirt with a dump truck, and play with a car and truck parade. You’ll see an ice cream truck, fire truck, cement truck, police car, mail truck, ambulance, and much more!

Trucks is an educational app that will teach children about sequencing, sorting, and problem solving. The activities encourage experimentation and will stimulate their imaginations.

1) CARWASH: Roll a car through the mud, and into a carwash! Clean the car with brushes, soap, and bubbles. Squirt water jets to rinse off your car then dry it off.

2) TOW TRUCK: Help fix a flat tire. Use a tow truck to take a car to the tire shop. Raise the car up to a platform, change the tires, and choose the hubcab you want!

3) GARBAGE & RECYCLING: Clean up the street and sort items into garbage, compost, and recycling bins. Learn about garbage and recycling and earn a “Green Score.” Dump the correct bin into the garbage, recycling, and compost trucks.

4) BULLDOZER & DUMP TRUCK: Use the dump truck to create a pile of dirt, then take it away with a bulldozer.

5) CAR PARADE: Play with a fire truck, ambulance, ice cream truck, cement truck, police car, and much more! Control their speed with by touching the red, yellow, and green signal lights.

Instrumental music recorded especially for this app with guitar and drums includes popular nursery rhymes: Wheels on the Bus, Hurry Hurry Drive the Fire Truck, I’ve Been Working on the Railroad, If You’re Happy and You Know It, Yankee Doodle, and When the Saints Go Marching In.

MY THOUGHTS:

I love Duck Duck Moose apps and honestly love when I see my kids playing with them.  My 5 year old truck-loving son loves the new Trucks app so much that it is hard to get our iPad back!  Now I will say it is a simple app with five short activities in it but the colorful and fun graphics keep my boys playing.  My favorite of the five activities is the Garbage and Recycling which has kids sorting garbage into trash, recycling and compost cans.  We are working on recycling now at home and this is perfect for getting them into thinking about it.  My 3 year old loves the Tow Truck activity which has you giving your own car a flat tire with scissors, spikes or other things and then towing it to get new tires on it!  My 5 year old loves the Car Parade which has you following a stop light and he figured out he can crash the cars! Overall, the Trucks app has great activities in it that gets kids thinking while having fun!

BUY IT: You can download Trucks HD – by Duck Duck Moose – Duck Duck Moose for your iPhone/iPod for $1.99.

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