When they’re little, kids want to be just like you--pretending to drive the car, borrowing your shoes for dress-up, and yes, pulling up a booster seat to unwind with the family Mac after a hard day in the sandbox. As fun as some Mac staples are regardless of age (Photo Booth, anyone?), your kids deserve some special software just for them--to help them master basic computer skills, stretch their creative imaginations, reinforce educational concepts, and of course, just have a grand old time no matter how young they are. With that in mind, we test-drove 29 Mac and iPhone apps and 12 activity-packed websites just for kids. Some wound up being a little too dumbed down--on the verge of becoming, well, dumb--and our reviews separate the wheat from that chaff for you. Grab the mouse; it’s time to play!
KidsMouse teaches basic mouse skills with 18 learning games like ABC Puzzle, Color Ball, and Shape Puzzle. Each is operated using only the mouse or trackpad, and the brightly colored, charmingly illustrated graphics will delight little ones. Some of the games test your child’s sequencing (letters and numbers), shape recognition, and memory, while others just entertain--a bitmap paint program, for example, lets them draw colorful shapes. Really little kids might need prompting from Mom or Dad--ours had fun driving from our lap. We just wished KidsMouse would lock out keyboard input because those keys sure get banged on.
Click matching shapes to hear a sound. Mee-yow!
KidsMouse
COMPANY: WhiteRoom-Web
CONTACT: www.whiteroom-web.com
PRICE: $15
REQUIREMENTS: 500MHz or faster G3 or later processor, Mac OS 10.4 or later
Lots of different activities for little kids to master. Colorful and engaging.
Keyboard remains active, so keep little ones away from keys.
A web browser specifically for preschoolers and older kids, BumperCar has built-in safeguards to keep kids away from the unsavory stuff. Parents or teachers first define BumperCar’s safety settings, then kids can surf with the same WebKit technology behind Safari. You can block profanity, filter search engine results, prevent kids from entering personal data, and maintain a whitelist (approved sites) and a blacklist (forbidden ones). You can even limit surfing to specific hours of the day or a specific duration. A fun interface featuring a bumper car and a “tunnel of mystery” (a random selection) greets younger kids; older ones are gently directed to pick from a variety of categories. We found a few dead links, but there was still plenty for kids to explore.
Kids can bump around the web without getting hurt.
BumperCar
COMPANY: Freeverse
CONTACT: www.freeverse.com
PRICE: $29.95
REQUIREMENTS: G3 or better processor, Mac OS 10.4 or later
Safe web browsing for kids.
Some dead links.
It’s one thing for kids to use software, but teaching them to produce it is another thing entirely. Scratch, developed by MIT’s world-famous Media Lab, introduces kids to computer programming. They can assemble their programs using scripts, each made up of individual building blocks that tell Scratch what to do. Examples include simple animations, simulations, games, and more--MIT even has a Scratch site where users have shared more than half a million of their own projects. Your kids can’t use Scratch to make the next Doom or World of Warcraft, but they’ll better understand the fundamentals of programming, and you won’t spend a dime. Built-in help screens and a reference guide will help young programmers get started, and the active online community will inspire them to strive for the next level. Our only gripe is the very un-Mac-like interface should be much better than it is.
Kids younger than 8 will probably need help--Scratch is aimed at 8- to 16-year-olds.
Scratch
COMPANY: MIT Media Lab
CONTACT: www.scratch.mit.edu
PRICE: Free
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.4 or later
Teaches fundamentals of programming. Big online community.
Un-Mac-like interface.
Syndicomm’s OK-Writer replaces the all-business word processor with one aimed at kids. Complete with sound effects and a toolbar that wraps most of the way around the document, it gives young writers six fonts (including that typographical monstrosity Comic Sans) and simple formatting. They can also save, print, and open documents, or have them read aloud using Mac OS X’s text-to-speech feature.
The idea is that regular word processors are too difficult or intimidating for kids, and it’s true that Microsoft Word and even Apple’s Pages have tool palettes and options that can be bewildering to even an adult. And at $10, OK-Writer is cheaper than either. But most kids fare perfectly well with TextEdit, the basic text editor that comes with Mac OS X, which makes us think that OK-Writer is simply a solution in search of a problem.
That's a lot of buttons for not a lot of formatting options.
OK-Writer
COMPANY: Syndicomm
CONTACT: www.syndicomm.com
PRICE: $10
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.3 or later
Simplified interface less daunting than a full word processor. Inexpensive.
A simplified text editor is already included with Mac OS X.
The fun exercises in TuxType test kids’ ability to find keys on the keyboard by having them type words on the screen. In Fish Cascade, letter-adorned fish stream down the screen, and your goal is to type the letters before Tux the Penguin eats the fish (the letters give him a bellyache). Comet Zap is pretty much the same, but naturally, with comets.
On the downside, TuxType lacks a tutorial structure to help kids learn basic keyboarding techniques, such as home-row finger positioning. And while you can modify the word lists and other aspects of the app (it is, after all, open source), you have to know how to manipulate Mac OS X app package contents, which may be more trouble than it’s worth to less-techy parents and teachers.
Don't ask why this penguin's in the mountains; just type!
TuxType
COMPANY: Tux4Kids
CONTACT: www.tux4kids.alioth.debian.org
PRICE: Free
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.4 or later
Two different exercises. Can't beat the price!
No keyboarding tutorials.
Doozla makes drawing a snap, but we wish it offered more flexibility. Kids can pick from four art projects: a coloring-book, freehand sketching, and doodling on iSight pictures or built-in backdrops. Each offers a handful of drawing and file tools in a simple, stylish window. It’s not just the app that looks good--pen strokes are smoothed automatically, making even lines drawn with a mouse look natural.
Adults can password-protect printing (a handy feature given the price of ink), but unfortunately, printouts are the easiest way to share drawings with the world. Worse, Doozla saves pictures in its own file format only and won’t simply save over old files, forcing kids to manually type a file’s name to replace past versions. We’d love the option to simply export JPEGs. Despite these limitations, Doozla lets young artists get great-looking results.
Drawing's a blast in Doozla.
Doozla
COMPANY: Plasq
CONTACT: www.plasq.com
PRICE: $24.95
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.4.6 or later
Simple, attractive interface. Smooths pen strokes to pleasing effect. Parental printing controls.
Awkward file-saving system. Can't export JPEGs.
Classroom Video Workshop Jr. drops users into a cramped interface, offers no tutorial on how to use it to start editing videos, and tops things off with QuickTime-compatibility issues. If you have the right MOV file, Video Workshop can import it, trim its length, and add simple music and effects to export or play in the app. But in our testing, only MOV files exported from QuickTime Player or from other applications using QuickTime-specific options worked. Videos made with Photo Booth--the easiest way to make movies on a Mac--had errors that made them unwatchable if any of Video Workshop’s effects were applied.
Even when the app behaves, you’ll have to contend with its pokey performance and cramped, dated design. If you’re introducing youngsters to video editing, consider a supervised lesson in iMovie instead of this program. It looks and feels more than a decade out of date.
This app isn't ready for its close-up.
Classroom Video Workshop Jr.
COMPANY: APTE
CONTACT: www.apte.com
PRICE: $39.95
REQUIREMENTS: G4 or better processor, Mac OS 10.4 or later
Adds titles and simple effects to QuickTime clip.
No tutorial. Accepts only MOV files exported from QuickTime Player or equivalent settings. Cramped, dated interface. Sluggish performance.
Algodoo might sound like a toy, but it’s actually a sophisticated physics simulator that works like a 2D drawing program. A nonstandard interface and skimpy instructions may hinder some users, but those willing to learn Algodoo’s many features will be rewarded with serious fun.
Freehand and polygonal shapes can be animated to illustrate physical properties like mass and velocity. Just drag and draw, then add springs, hinges, gears, and motors to combine them into virtual machines controlled with keyboard commands. Algodoo’s many features, combined with a lack of familiar menus and help files, demand experimentation and too many trips to the Algodoo website for instructions. But turning your screen into a riot of colliding shapes is half the fun, and built-in example scenes help kids get into the swing of things--literally.
Screenshots can't show off Algodoo's realistic physics, but they're a click away.
Algodoo
COMPANY: Algoryx
CONTACT: algodoo.com
PRICE: $39
REQUIREMENTS: 1GHz or faster processor, Mac OS 10.4 or later, 96MB or faster video card
Turns your Mac into a virtual physics lab that works like a drawing program. Plenty of features.
Nonstandard menus and lack of tutorials make for a long learning curve.
The Digital Photo Activity Kit’s six photocentric games and creative activities range from slideshows to calendars (though the app crashed anytime we tried to change a calendar’s date), and some can be modified with music. Each activity offers a template, but skimpy customization options and inflexible controls get in the way. For instance, newsletters can only be a few paragraphs long. But clear instructions keep things moving, and all activities and controls are available on every screen, making it easy to get around. The Kit needs a 21st-century update--iSight integration would be a good start--but there’s enough here to engage young children for a while. Older kids and adults, though, will grow bored quickly.
This Movie Maker could use a remake.
Digital Photo Activity Kit
COMPANY: APTE
CONTACT: apte.com
PRICE: $19.95 download, $39.95 CD
REQUIREMENTS: G3 or better processor, Mac OS 10.2.1 or later
Six creative activities for slightly older kids. Convenient, if dated, interface.
No iSight integration. Bug makes calendar activity useless.
TuxPaint isn’t the prettiest app, but its price is right. Its single window is a canvas surrounded by brushes, colors, and drawing and file tools. But because Tux’s plentiful drawing tools are nested, kids have to cycle through them to see everything and don’t have access to all of them at once. It’s also too bad you can’t export pictures as JPEGs, but an optional (and free) collection of clip art broadens young artists’ creative horizons. A separate configuration application lets parents manage printing options and simplify controls. At the end of the day, a drawing app is about making pictures, and TuxPaint delivers, just with a decided lack of Mac-like flair.
TuxPaint's built-in layered backdrops help get the arty started.
TuxPaint
COMPANY: New Breed Software
CONTACT: tuxpaint.org
PRICE: Free download, $6.99 CD
REQUIREMENTS: G3 or better processor, Mac OS 10.3.9 or later
Plenty of tools for drawing. Parental printing controls Can't beat the price.
Navigating all drawing tools takes multiple clicks. Can't export JPEGs.
Games of Math 4’s six minigames blend math drills with arcade action. From winning footraces by solving problems to writing a math-centric advice column, it’s hard to get bored. When the games are done, the two practice modes are almost as fun and are easily customized. Parents can select which numbers to work with, set quiz limits, and even turn on remainders and long division for advanced training. Missed questions can be retaken or printed to worksheets for further practice. Multiple children can be tested and tracked individually, and password protection lets adults block printing, access to student records, and more. We wish the minigames were as customizable as the practice sessions, but Games of Math 4’s features and polished design add up to a winner.
We knew math was important, but who knew it was fun?
Games of Math 4: Division and Fractions
COMPANY: Help Me 2 Learn Company
CONTACT: helpme2learn.com
PRICE: $19.95 for the downloadable home edition
REQUIREMENTS: 500MHz or faster processor, Mac OS 10.3 or later
Creative, dynamic games make math fun. Customizable, flexible practice modes. Password-protected controls for adults.
Games could benefit from greater customization.
GeoEdu is a world atlas and customizable geography quiz, but neither is done well. Wading through the cramped, text-heavy, dated interface feels more like navigating a dry database than exploring an educational application. The atlas offers both too much and too little information, summarizing numerous international organizations in detail, but offering small, simplistic maps and little data about cities or languages. Quiz features offer extensive customization, however, and you can easily organize territory information in custom lists to cover specific topics, such as all countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean. But even these useful features are hampered by an interface that makes GeoEdu feel too much like homework.
GeoEdu's heart is in the right place, but its interface is in 1999.
GeoEdu
COMPANY: GeoEdu
CONTACT: geoedu.info
PRICE: $10
REQUIREMENTS: G4 or better processor, Mac OS 10.3.9 or later, 1024x768 display resolution
Flexible quiz customization lets you fine-tune geography drills.
Busy, confounding interface. Simplistic maps.
Arithmetic and arcade games make for strange bedfellows unless you’re playing TuxMath, a free game featuring the lovable penguin mascot of Linux. TuxMath revolves around two main games--the first is modeled after Missile Command and has you saving penguins from a comet storm. Each comet is labeled with an arithmetic problem you must solve in order to blast it to dust. The other game, based on Asteroids, tests your ability to solve factors and simplify fractions while blasting asteroids in space--requiring a surprisingly challenging combination of coordination and math-solving abilities.
TuxMath includes a number of different exercises to test your skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and a fast-paced, two-player hot seat variation adds a competitive element. Where TuxMath comes up short, however, is in actually helping kids develop these arithmetic skills--it is better for reinforcing the lessons they’re already learning in school.
Fun gameplay and delightful graphics, for the low, low price of nothing.
TuxMath
COMPANY: Tux4Kids
CONTACT: tux4kids.alioth.debian.org
PRICE: Free
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.4 or later
One- and two-player games. Lots of different arithmetic skills to drill.
No tutorials, just lots of review.
In Crystal Kingdom, preschool kids guide Dora the Explorer and friends through seven light math, matching, and memory puzzles to defeat the greedy king, learning un poco de español in the process. The minigames reinforce listening, memorization, and basic math and language skills at multiple difficulty levels. Bright colors, peppy animation, and enthusiastic voice acting (including constant spoken instructions) carry kids through the game, and the inclusion of printable coloring book pages as prizes is a nice touch. An arcade mode lets kids revisit their favorite minigames any time, and six save slots let junior explorers help Dora without erasing each others’ achievements. There are no surprises here, but no gotchas, either.
One miffed monarch is no match for Dora.
Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom
COMPANY: Nova Development
CONTACT: novadevelopment.com
PRICE: $19.95
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.4 or later, 512MB RAM, 1GB free disk space
Fun educational games for kids ages 2 to 5. Bright, engaging art and animation. Encourages learning Spanish.
No major complaints.
Can-Do Zoo’s lengthy story mode takes preschool- and kindergarten-aged builders through seven minigames to help Bob build a zoo for the animals of Bobland Bay. Kids will match shapes and colors, put blueprints in sequential order, complete patterns, and perform other gently educational tasks. Each offers children three levels of difficulty and plenty of feedback and encouragement, even when their answers are wrong. Audio instructions accompany every activity, and three save slots mean multiple children can learn at their own paces. When the zoo is finished, a free-play mode lets kids enjoy their favorite minigames anytime. As a bonus, virtual stickers are awarded for completed tasks and can be arranged on colorful backdrops, but it’s too bad these scenes can’t be printed or saved to enjoy later.
Activities are controlled with just the mouse, and most don't require precise aiming.
Bob the Builder: Can-Do Zoo
COMPANY: Brighter Minds Media
CONTACT: brightermindsmedia.com
PRICE: $19.95
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.3.9 or later
Gentle, low-stress, educational games. Appealing, simple art and animation.
Sticker-album feature is too limited.
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Nick Jr.’s cartoon superstar Diego headlines this two-game collection, which includes Great Dinosaur Rescue and Safari Rescue. Kids will love helping Diego save wild animals in distress. In Great Dinosaur Rescue, Diego and Baby Jaguar hunt for dino eggs, while minigames teach kids about dinosaurs and reinforce skills like counting, shape recognition, and language.
The shorter Safari Rescue has Diego and Baby Jaguar join their friend Juma in the Serengeti. A magician has turned the elephants to stone, and the trio must find a magic drum to transform them back. Similar skill reinforcements are put to work in Safari Rescue’s minigames, but both titles are polished, and Diego is such a heartthrob with the under-6 set that they won’t mind the games’ glaring similarities.
Diego and dinosaurs go together like PB and J.
Go Diego, Go! 2-Game Set
COMPANY: Nova Development
CONTACT: novadevelopment.com
PRICE: $19.99
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.4 or later
Characters many preschoolers will be familiar with. Dinos and safari animals.
Similar skill reinforcements in both games. Safari Rescue has less content.
This side-scrolling arcade game evokes our childhoods--the days when Duran Duran was on the radio and games cost a quarter at the local arcade. In it, you play as Captain Bumper, a lantern-jawed hero who pilots his ship from an open cockpit, blasting bug-eyed aliens and collecting power ups and bonus multipliers. The violence level is cartoonish--explosions consist of animated dust clouds, and aliens get “zapped” but there’s no blood. It’s definitely family friendly.
The simple controls require just the arrow keys, space bar, and Control key, while the smooth graphics shine even on low-end machines--in fact, Captain Bumper even runs on pre-OS X Macs. We saw some graphical glitches on a Snow Leopard–equipped MacBook, however. And the $25 price is out of line for what amounts to some simple casual gaming.
Cute graphics and low system requirements make Captain Bumper fun for everyone.
Captain Bumper
COMPANY: MacRun Games
CONTACT: macrun.com
PRICE: $25
REQUIREMENTS: Any Mac running Mac OS 8.6 or later
Very low system requirements. Simple to master game mechanics.
Glitchy graphics.
FusionFall, Cartoon Network’s ambitious massively multiplayer online game (MMO) runs in a web browser, but don’t dismiss it as some simple Flash affair. Using the Unity plug-in, kids can get a compelling 3D online gaming experience with familiar TV characters. FusionFall emphasizes running, jumping, and climbing, but mixes in puzzle solving and combat. And since it’s an MMO for kids, interaction with other players is monitored to make sure nothing inappropriate goes on.
Conventional MMOs involve a lot of “grinding,” or rewarding players who spend hours gaining experience. FusionFall is designed for the more casual player who may only have 10 or 15 minutes to spend at a time. What’s more, you can play through the first four levels for free. The browser plug-in installation could be more graceful--it drops a webplayer-i386.dmg file onto your Mac that newbies may not know what to do with--but the download and installation are quick.
Before they're ready for World of Warcraft, FusionFall introduces kids to MMOs.
FusionFall
COMPANY: Cartoon Network
CONTACT: fusionfall.com
PRICE: Free for the first four levels, subscriptions start at $5.95 per month
REQUIREMENTS: Intel Mac with Mac OS 10.4 or later, Firefox 3 or later or Safari
Filtered chat to keep younger players away from inappropriate content.
Wonky plug-in installer.
Spore lets you guide the evolution of a life form--a heady mix that’s been enormously popular with kids and adults alike since its release. The game is most appealing to children during the creature-creation phase--in fact, EA spun that part off as the standalone Spore Creature Creator, available for $10.
The full game involves guiding your creature from its origins in a tidal pool all the way up to colonizing space. But for kids, the early stages are too easy, the later stages are too hard, and the whole fun but flawed experience becomes frustrating. We recommend parents try the less-expensive Spore Creature Creator to give their kids the best and most creative part of this game without bogging them down in the details.
Create whatever freaks of nature you can dream up.
Spore
COMPANY: Electronic Arts
CONTACT: gametreeonline.com
PRICE: $39.99
REQUIREMENTS: Intel processor, Mac OS 10.5.3 or later
Fun to create creatures and evolve them through stages of life.
Creating creatures doesn't affect game outcome.
Next Page: How to Use Parental Controls >>
Use Leopard and Snow Leopard's built-in parental controls to custom-tailor your child's Mac experience for their safety--and your sanity.
System Preferences > Parental Controls lets parents set sensible limits.
Open System Preferences > Accounts, and click the plus-sign button. Choose Managed With Parental Controls from the dropdown, and set a name and password for your kid’s account. Don’t give him administrator privileges, or he’ll be able to do whatever he likes. The next screen will have a button for Open Parental Controls. Click that (or go to System Preferences > Parental Controls) to start setting limits.
Checking the Simple Finder box (under the System tab) will really strip down your kid’s Mac experience--they won’t be able to modify the Dock or monkey with system files or settings. They get a simple Applications window, a Documents folder, and that’s about it. For little kids, this is a good place to start, but older kids will feel too fenced in.
The System tab is also where you specify which applications your kid is allowed to use. But if he needs one later that you haven’t authorized, you can add it in a snap by typing in your administrator password. And remember, Junior can’t install new programs without that admin password either.
The Content tab lets you hide profanity in the Dictionary app and on Wikipedia in Safari. When setting the Website Restrictions, keep in mind that they only work in Safari--so remember to disable any other browsers (see Step 3). If you choose “Try to limit access to adult websites automatically,” you can still blacklist specific sites with the Customize button.
The Mail & iChat tab lets you make sure your kids can only email and chat with people you approve of. This only counts for Mail and iChat, so make sure you disable any other clients (Entourage, Thunderbird, Adium, etc.) in Step 3. If they try to communicate with people outside your approved list, you’ll see it in the Log (see Step 7).
Set limits on how long your kids can use the computer on weekdays and on weekends. Then set a bedtime, so they won’t be able to log on after they’re supposed to be asleep.
The Log tab is the ultimate tattletale: See what websites your kids visited and if they attempted to visit any blocked ones. Find out what applications they used and for how long, and see a transcript of their iChats. Big Brother’s got nothing on you!
At the bottom of the System Preferences window, click the lock icon to prevent changes to your selections. Anyone who wants to make a change (yes, even you) needs to type in an administrator password to do so.
The dirty secrets of kids’ software is this: High-quality, kid-friendly alternatives to most of it can be found for free online. Poke around these fabulous sites for hundreds of games, activities, recipes, educational diversions, and more.
>> pbskids.org
>> kids.nationalgeographic.com
>> nick.com and nickjr.com
>> si.edu and smithsonianeducation.org/students
Next Page: iPhone Apps for Kids >>
10 iPhone apps that'll keep your munchkins occupied, entertained, and learning on the go.
We’re not suggesting you buy an iPhone or even an iPod touch for your 6-year-old. But your favorite sidekicks can still get in on the fun--and stay out of your hair--if you dedicate a home screen on your device to apps just for them. To help you fill it, we tracked down the best apps for toddlers and older kids. --Leslie Ayers
1. Toddler Flashcards ($0.99, itotapps.com) This set of digital flash cards works for tots 18 months and up, but they’ll probably need to be at least 2 to be able to swipe through the flash cards themselves. Each card shows the picture and word for an item--animals, objects, food, shapes, colors, letters, numbers, and so on--and plays audio of a woman clearly saying the word.
2. Old MacDonald ($1.99, duckduckmoosedesign.com) Sure, you could torture yourself playing kiddie music on your car’s stereo. But instead, you should launch Old MacDonald and hand your iPhone back to Junior to listen to the jaunty tune and control this app’s charming touch-sensitive animation. Leaving you blessedly free to enjoy your own music in the front seat.
Many of the elements in Old MacDonald will move (or be moved) when your child taps or swipes parts of the picture.
3. AniMatch ($0.99, limasky.com) We called it Concentration when we were kids, but AniMatch kicks the card-matching game up a notch, challenging your little one to find the identical animal faces--complete with sound effects, of course--on a board of 20 face-down tiles.
4. ABC Animals ($1.99, criticalmatter.com) This app makes learning the alphabet a zoological adventure, assigning an animal to all 26 letters and naming each animal as the child swipes through the letters. Double-tapping turns a letter card over and challenges your child to write the letter in upper- and lowercase on the touchscreen.
5. Make a Martian (free, 3dal.com) No educational agenda here; it’s just fun to build your own many-eyed alien by tapping different body parts on the screen to the left and right of your creation.
6. Preschool Adventure ($0.99, 3dal.com) This app offers six activities to help your preschooler bone up on key pre-K concepts: colors, numbers, shapes, body parts, animal sounds, and the ability to match slices of a picture correctly to make a seamless whole.
Preschool Adventure's undersea scene demonstrates the colors blue, purple, green, orange, pink, and red as seen "in the wild."
7. iPuzzle Words Transportation ($0.99, portegno-apps.com) Once your kindergartener starts asking you how to spell, well, everything, you can satisfy her thirst for knowledge and expand her vocabulary with this app, in which she’ll rearrange scrambled letters to spell modes of transportation.
8. Curious George Coloring Book ($2.99, pbskids.org) Having this app on your iPhone negates the need to tote coloring books and crayons whenever you eat out. Your little Van Gogh chooses his George pic, then “colors” it in using hues from the palette.
Yeah, George looks a little green here. Chalk it up to artistic license.
9. Glow Doodle ($0.99, oodot.com) With an interface simple enough for an early reader to master, Glow Doodle turns your kid’s idle scribbles into four-color neon masterworks.
Just hope your little scribbler doesn't know how to copy the Coors Light logo.
10. Scoops ($1.99, nimblebit.com) In this accelerometer-based game, your child tilts the device to the left and right to catch scoops of ice cream on a cone, avoiding icky veggies like tomatoes and garlic. The goal is to stack like ice cream flavors, catch rainbow (wild card) scoops, and ultimately get the scoop that’s purple with yellow stars--maybe it’s Star Wars flavor?
Scoops will keep them so occupied in the car they might not notice you're driving by Baskin Robbins.
