LeapFrog Leapster Game: Creature Create

Let your imagination run wild as you invent your own creature and construct a world of its own. Test your logic, directionality, creativity and more as you race pets, solve puzzles and build a monster of a friendship!

All Leapster games work with all Leapster Learning Game Systems (Leapster, Leapster L-Max and Leapster TV).

Learning skills:

• Creative expression

Creative exploration is one of many ways that children learn about the world around them.

• Artistic expression

Creating art is an exercise in learning how to see. With increased confidence in their skills, children discover that art is a vehicle for self-expression.

• Music exploration

Encouraging children to create music deepens their understanding of music as a form of self-expression. Experimenting with basic musical elements such as rhythm, tempo and mood helps lay a foundation for parallel concepts such as those found in poetry.

• Relative Sizes

Which is bigger? Which is longer? The ability to compare sizes lays the groundwork for geometry, measurement and estimation.

• Part-whole relationships

Understanding part-whole relationships builds the foundation for learning decimals, fractions and percentages.

• Shapes

Identifying and manipulating shapes lays the groundwork for geometry by giving children concrete experience with angles, symmetry and relative sizes.

• Reasoning and problem solving

Toddlers use their curiosity and logical reasoning skills to solve everyday problems. By investigating all sorts of possibilities, they develop unexpected solutions and creative problem-solving strategies.

• Basic science concepts

The study of science begins with something that children have in abundance: curiosity. Children observe, investigate and draw conclusions as they make discoveries about the world around them.

• Science vocabulary

Knowledge of science terminology allows children to participate in the joy of science: to compare, to experiment and to describe outcomes.

• Vocabulary

Infants and toddlers learn vocabulary by memory. Later, children use word structure and context to help understand the meaning of a word. They identify synonyms and antonyms. They use prefixes, suffixes and base words to build their own vocabulary.

• Recognizing and extending patterns

The ability to extend, complete and duplicate patterns by determining the specific attributes of those patterns is a logical reasoning skill that forms that basis for future work in math.