123 Color Talking Coloring Book Review
“123 Color” follows the “color-by-numbers” concept used in early childhood education and introduces letters, numbers, and colors to Preschoolers . The main menu has four categories from which to choose. When you touch the book at the top of the page, coloring pages will appear, then you choose the page and begin coloring. At the bottom of the coloring page are the color choices to match up with a number or letter. Touch a color, then match the number or letter in the picture and the color will appear. When the picture is colored correctly, musical notes will float across the screen and play a little jingle. If musical notes are not heard or seen, the colors or matches are incorrect. “123 Color” allows children to keep trying until all numbers or letters match correctly. It’s offered in a number of languages, including English, Spanish, French, and German, and a combo of English-Spanish. The app is well-done, bright, and colorful. The coloring pages are fantastic, and there are many choices within the app. I do hope the publisher decides to add new pages with every update. “123 Color” is also available for the HD iPad
Application Detail
123 Color: Talking Coloring Book (English, Spanish, French, and German Voice-Overs Included)
Developer: Steve GlinbergReleased: 2010-02-23 00:00:00
Price: $0.99
Description from the Developer
• Woman's Day names 123 Color the #1 app for kids during holiday travel.• 123 Color becomes the App Store's #1 ranked education app for 3 weeks straight.
• Featured by Apple on the New & Noteworthy, What's Hot, and Staff Favorites lists.
• TheiPhoneMom.com says about 123 Color, "...you really need to grab this one."
• edu.Mac.nation calls 123 Color, "...a must have application for any parent or grandparent of young children."
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123 Color teaches numbers, letters (upper and lower case), and colors, spoken in English, Spanish, French, and German, with engaging artwork, voice-overs, music, sound effects, and animation.
123 Color, version 2.0, was recently released adding freestyle finger painting, voice-overs of 30 spoken colors in four languages, Australian and British English voice-overs, many new drawings, and much more!
123 Color has been a top selling education app for over a year.
123 Color is jam packed with features and teaches the following skills:
• Number recognition by sight and sound
• Upper and lower case letter recognition by sight and sound
• Basic shapes including squares, triangles, circles, ovals, and parallelograms
• Optionally teaches Spanish, French, German, or English
• Artistic expression, drawing and painting skills
Additional features include:
• Freestyle finger painting with Perfect Paint™, a patent-pending technology that makes it impossible for kids to paint outside the lines
• Select a 10 color or a 30 color pallet (10 for young children)
• English (American, British, and Australian), Spanish, French and German voice-overs and alphabets are all included
• Select up to two voice-overs to be spoken when numbers and colors are touched, and which should be spoken first
• Proper spelling of numbers is displayed in selected languages (for example, when 1 is touched, "One / Uno" is displayed when English and Spanish are selected as the primary and secondary languages)
• 23 sound effects
• 25 songs
• Individual (or all) songs and sound effects can be disabled
• Save or email artwork to friends and family without leaving 123 Color
Songs include:
• Clementine
• Wheels On The Bus
• London Bridges
• Mary Had A Little Lamb
• Oh Susanna
• I've Been Working On The Railroad
• When The Saints Go Marching On
• Jingle Bells
• Minuet by Beethoven
• Many more
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123 Color is also a powerful tool for introducing children to Spanish, French, German, or English as a foreign language.
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Thank you for the fantastic ideas emailed to me so far. Please continue to email me your thoughts on how I can improve 123 Color. My email address is steve@123ColorApp.com. Thank you sincerely.


June 11th, 2010 by Melinda Landon





