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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.
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