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What are good free learning games for a 3-year-old, with no ads?

Little Roos has 19 free learning games made for children of three, and 6 stories to listen to, with no ads, no sign-ups and nothing collected. Ruby Roo says every instruction aloud, so there's nothing a child has to read, and a wrong tap is never counted against a child.

Key facts

19 games include age 3 in their age range, and 11 are made for Tiny Steps, for two- and three-year-olds.
There's no advertising and no third-party code on the site, and nothing about a child is collected. (Little Roos privacy page)
Every game ends with something to do away from the screen.
Each game practises skills tied to the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0, for children from birth to five. (The skill pages)

Games for three-year-olds

Count on Me: Reading a number and putting it where it belongs. Ages 3-6.
A Shape in its Place: Telling shapes apart. Ages 3-6.
A Match for the Patch: Finding two colours that are the same. Ages 3-6.
Dingo's Echo: Letter sounds, by hearing a sound and finding the letter that makes it. Ages 3-6.
Hold It, Quoll!: Stopping yourself: tap the quolls that are awake, and let the sleepy ones sleep. Ages 3-7.
Pelican's Patterns: Patterns: spotting what repeats, and working out what comes next. Ages 3-6.
Koala's Calm-Down: Calming down with slow breathing, then naming how you feel. Ages 3-7.
Head to Toe, Tassie Devil: Naming the parts of your body: hear it, then find it on you. Ages 3-5.
The Big Summer Scene: Counting out a number of things, and where they go: in, on, up. Ages 3-5.
Dugong Remembers: Remembering things in order: watch and listen, then do it back. Ages 3-6.
Syllable Stomp: Hearing the beats in a word: how many stomps in koala?. Ages 3-6.
Snake's Long and Short: Comparing lengths: which ribbons are long, and which are short?. Ages 3-5.
Whipbird's Whistle: Copying a rhythm: a long whistle, a short crack, played back in order. Ages 3-6.
Lorikeet's Opposites: Opposites: big and small, full and empty, up and down. Ages 3-6.
Cockatoo's Loud and Soft: Listening for loud and soft, fast and slow. Ages 3-6.
Butterfly's Weather: Weather words, and what to wear: sunny and rainy, windy and calm, hot and cold. Ages 3-6.
Platypus Feels: Reading feelings in faces and in moments: happy and sad, calm and angry, excited and tired, scared and cosy. Ages 3-6.
Wombat's Peekaboo: Looking and finding, for two- and three-year-olds: who's hiding behind the bush?. Ages 2-3.
Kookaburra Takes Turns: Taking turns, with a grown-up or with Kookaburra: turn over two cards, then pass it over. Ages 3-6.

Tiny Steps, for two- and three-year-olds

Switch on Tiny Steps on the grown-ups' page and the home page shows only picture games, the stories to listen to, the Bush Band, Draw and Colour, and How am I feeling?. Games stay on their gentlest level, and a not-yet tap is never counted.

Stories to listen to

6 stories are read aloud by Ruby Roo, with the words lighting up as she reads.

Games on Little Roos that help

A Shape in its Place: Telling shapes apart. Ages 3-6.
A Match for the Patch: Finding two colours that are the same. Ages 3-6.
Pelican's Patterns: Patterns: spotting what repeats, and working out what comes next. Ages 3-6.
Koala's Calm-Down: Calming down with slow breathing, then naming how you feel. Ages 3-7.