About this app

Accompanied by a friendly fox - and other animal buddies along the way - young children will learn and practice matching, sorting, mixing and categorizing shapes and colors through imaginative activity-filled worlds. Visit an ancient jungle, the magical deep sea, mysterious outer space — even a wild savanna safari! The puzzle games are woven into engaging stories, and the games increase in challenge as your preschool aged child plays.


Kids will benefit from:
- Development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Curiosity as they explore new worlds of shapes, colors, and color mixing
- Learning to make predictions and understanding outcomes by discovering how primary colors mix together to form secondary colors
- Confidence as they make decisions and advance to new levels
- Learning key preschool and math skills like matching, sorting and classifying by shapes and colors
- Identifying and naming 11 shapes from circles to octagons, 11 primary and secondary colors and color mixing
- Development of fine motor skills
- Security of an ad-free environment

Features:
- 6 progressing levels of challenge:
- FREE Ancient Jungle Puzzle Pack – 4 shapes + 8 colors
- Magical Underwater Puzzle Pack – 8 shapes + 11 colors
- Mysterious Space Puzzle Pack – 11 shapes + 11 colors
- NEW Jurassic Journey Puzzle Pack –Introduce color mixing!
- NEW Savanna Safari Puzzle Pack – Expand on color mixing with even more colors!
- Optional FREE Sweet Arctic Puzzle Pack
- Hilarious surprises and delights to engage preschool children along the way
- Track progress, skip and replay functions
- 3 language options (US English, UK English, Spanish)

This app is fun, creative, confidence building and developmentally appropriate — brought to you by the early childhood experts at Highlights and the Italian creative studio Colto.

Highlights Shapes for kids ages 2+ is an ideal first app and is easy for young children to play on their own. It’s playable in English (US + UK) and Spanish.

MORE ABOUT HIGHLIGHTS SHAPES

PREPARES CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL
As children progress through Highlights Shapes, they’ll develop creative thinking and essential problem-solving skills, both critical for the start of formal schooling.

PROMOTES FUN, MEANINGFUL LEARNING
Highlights Shapes combines geometric, sorting and matching skills that are crucial for preschool-aged children to grasp, with the fun of an engaging, age-appropriate game. Children will learn valuable math and vocabulary skills all while having a blast traveling through new and exciting worlds!

PROMOTES CONFIDENCE AND CREATIVITY
In this game, children will foster confidence, creativity and curiosity as they make decisions! They’ll build colorful geometric scenes, learn how colors mix to form other colors, and explore three exciting environments.

DEVELOPS FINE MOTOR SKILLS
As children touch and drag each colorful shape, they’ll develop their fine motor skills.

INCREASES VOCABULARY
As they correctly match and sort each object, children will hear their shapes and colors repeated aloud, helping them learn new words and increase their existing vocabularies.

ABOUT US

Highlights for Children
Founded by educators Dr. Garry and Caroline Myers in 1946, Highlights was built on the belief that “Children Are the World’s Most Important People™.” Today, 70 years later, every “Fun with a Purpose™” product is still designed to help children become their best selves: creative, curious, caring and confident.

New features

Minor improvements

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.