Leapster Software: Kindergarten will help your children learn crucial educational skills, while they play fun games! It’s time for the famous Monster Review at Carnival Marvel — each learning activity kids finish earns thema ticket to buy monster parts. If they finish every game they’ll get to build a monster&teach it silly dances!

Awards

• Parents’ Choice Recommended Award winner, 2004
• Award of Excellence, Technology & Learning Magazine, 2004

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 5.3 x 7.6 inches ; 3.8 ounces
• Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Our Recommended Age: 4 – 5 years

Amazon.com Product Description
The award-winning original LeapFrog Leapster handheld takes it up a notch with the Leapster L-Max for kids ages 4 to 10 years. This handheld features dual-screen action (players interact with the handheld screen and watch the results on their TV screen), multiple skill levels, tailored tutorials, and unlimited potential for educational fun. Slip in one of Leapster’s many separately sold software games (“Letters on the Loose,” “Rock the World,” “Madagascar,” “Dora the Explorer Wildlife Rescue,” etc.) and follow spoken instructions. Youngsters won’t even realize they’re learning how to write their letters, identifying plants and animals, recognizing mathematical concepts, matching shapes, performing logical reasoning, mastering diphthongs, and even expressing ideas musically and artistically!

Plug the toy into a TV for dual-screen action—and twice the fun!

In case you didn’t catch that, this groovy teaching toy can be hooked up directly to a TV (necessary cables are included) so that kids can experience all the fun and learning on a bigger screen. When hooked up to a television, the system goes into dual-screen mode: the L-Max puts one image on the TV and a second one on its own screen, allowing players to interact with the handheld while they watch the action unfold above. An example would be the players writing the letter B on the handheld game and then seeing an animated dance the B does on the TV screen. This action is controlled by using the multi-directional control pad or by placing the attached stylus directly to the toy’s interactive touch screen. When a TV is not handy (possibly when traveling between destinations) the portable game can be played in single screen mode. The full color system features a backlit screen for easy viewing and a headphone jack for quiet play.

comfortably shaped for little hands with safe, rounded edges and small enough to store or travel easily.

The Leapster L-Max helps teach through four exciting modes:
Educational Game Player. Lets players learn essential school skills with leveled games that teach reading, math, and critical thinking skills.
Digital Art Studio. Encourages creative thinking with dozens of art tools and step-by-step lessons that let children draw, write, and create anything they can imagine.
Electronic Book Reader. Inspires a love for reading via electronic storybooks that teach literacy skills, story comprehension, vocabulary, and phonetic awareness.
Interactive Video Player. Develops fundamental reading and math skills by playing interactive videos that encourage children to participate in the action.The device itself is comfortably shaped for little hands with safe, rounded edges, and is small enough to store and travel easily. A bonus cartridge with six educational games is included. Games offer multiple skill levels and teach kids letters, words, plants, animals, shapes, and basic math. The L-Max requires special cartridges (sold separately) for dual-screen play, but can work with existing Leapster titles. Older titles won’t play on dual screens, though, and may not project to the TV. Four AA batteries are required, but not included.

Packed with fun-filled activities and tools, the Fisher-Price Digital Arts & Crafts Studio turns your home PC into a kid-friendly, creative station. Designed for boys and girls four to nine years old, this play studio is an easy-to-use and safe digital activity program for you child. A Whole New Level of Fun
Taking arts and crafts to new level, this digital studio provides endless fun and possibilities. With 85 built-in projects, including connect-the-dot games, coloring pages, jumping frogs, flying airplanes, greeting cards, and party hats, Crafts Studio will keep your child entertained in creative play for hours. The program also includes a stylus that can be used as a pencil tool, a crayon, a stamper, and more.

Transforms your home computer into a digital arts & crafts studio for kids.

USB cable connection and one-time CD-ROM installation makes set-up a cinch.

Because kids love making their own decisions, the Digital Arts & Crafts Studio offers 256 colors, 75 scene starters, and 300 stampers, giving your child the tools to design, create, print, and assemble his or her own art projects. You can easily import your own digital pictures as well, allowing your child to create personalized backgrounds, stampers, and coloring pages with them. And when their projects are complete, children can save and print them out to share with friends and to make paper crafts.

Easy to Use
Plugging easily into your USB port, the Digital Arts & Crafts Studio takes the place of a keyboard and mouse, and is ready to use again and again after a quick, one-time CD software installation. The durable and child-safe plastic tablet and stylus allow kids to work and play comfortably on their own, while password-protected controls block access to desktop and hard drive files — so you don’t have to worry about your kids getting into your personal files. You can even limit the number of papers printed per session.

The Fisher-Price Digital Arts & Crafts Studio requires Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, or Vista; a 750 MHz processor; a USB 1.1 port; and 256 MB of RAM. An internet connection for software updates and a color printer are recommended. Additional software with more arts and crafts projects, fun themes, and familiar characters can be purchased separately.

What’s in the Box
Digital Arts & Crafts Studio base, CD-ROM software and USB cable.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

78 of 79 people found the following review helpful: An excellent system!, October 24, 2007 By weedlebat (San Jose, CA USA) – See all my reviews Durability: Fun: Educational: My daughter loves to create art, including computer art, so we got her this for her 5th birthday. We are really impressed by how much is in this system! I especially like the themes within features such as the backgrounds and stampers, and you can upload your own images as well. Complaints: It does have some bugs. We have gotten into modes where it seems to respond to the prior command rather than the current one. For example, you click on one stamper and it applies the prior one, or you pick blue and it applies brown. That is quite frustrating but it only happens rarely. Also, the tablet takes a bit of getting used to. I’ve seen older kids really struggle with it. My daughter picked up on it right away but she has quite a bit of patience. My daughter has explored many of the features and we have many more to go. I know this will be an enjoyable system for her for a long time. It will adjust with her abilities.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Good Computerized Alternative To Crayons and Coloring Books!, December 5, 2007

By	A. Stagg (Virgnia, USA) – See all my reviews

Durability: Fun: Educational:

This is not destined to be a favorite toy in our house, but it’s quite fun and the kids are enjoying it. As other reviewers have stressed, make sure your computer meets minimum requirements. Graphics card must have at least 64MB.

The toy is well designed and should operate fine for most kids. You DO have to press rather firmly with the stylus to activate the computer graphics, but most kids won’t have a problem with the process.

I like the different activities available with this toy. Coloring books, connect-the-dots, stamping, basic drawing…there is a wide variety of things for kids to enjoy.

Don’t mistake this toy for a real art studio program. Drawings and graphics are rudimentary. But, it’s a fun toy for kids and a good computerized alternative to crayons and coloring books.

Also, don’t forget you can buy expansion packs for this toy to make it more interesting. My kids are really enjoying the Fisher-Price: Digital Arts and Crafts Studio – Go, Diego Go!.

With LeapFrog’s Word Whammer Fridge Phonics, you can create over 325 three-letter words with magnetic letters that sing and teach. These interactive, magnetic letters are based on the LeapFrog Talking Words Factory video.

What’s a Word Whammer’ It’s a machine that teaches kids letter names, letter sounds and how letter sounds blend together to make words. It features three modes of play. In Letter Hunt, children learn letter names and sounds through fun songs.

With Word Builder, children explore letter combinations and create over 325 words. In Word Hunt, children can spell three-letter words, then replace letters to make rhyming words. Lights follow each letter during play to reinforce the learning. Includes letters A through Z, plus six additional letters (E, O, D, G, M and P), so kids can spell words like MOM and DAD. Letters and magnetic letter reader attach securely to the refrigerator. Volume control and 2 “AA” batteries (included).L

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