Kutoka Interactive Review And Giveaway

December 19, 2008 by admin - Jennifer
Filed under Giveaways

Mother Nature’s Visit is the third installment in the award-winning Didi & Ditto grade-based series. This preschool aged game is fun, colorful and an educational adventure that will literally captivate your children from 2 to 4 years. It is the ideal way to introduce children to the wonderful world of computers!

The Story
The story begins when the animals receive a message from Mother Nature announcing her official visit to Smart Valley. They decide to prepare a celebration party for this big event and hold an election to choose a mayor that will be responsible to plan the activities. Zolt the Wolf looses the election. Furious, he wants his revenge… He decides to break all the musical instrument and to hide all the food in order to ruin the party. Then, when Mother Nature will arrive, he will step in and act as a hero! During the gathering Didi and Ditto notice Zolt’s strange behavior and decide to keep an eye on him. It is up to the player to decide which beaver will watch Zolt while the other will help Hootdini get ready for the festivities.

Features
Children love being able to play as either the girl (Didi) or the boy character (Ditto). They will feel part of an extraordinary animated movie with numerous great animations, fantastic characters and environments so rich and colorful, this will surely be their favorite game for a very long time!

Educational Focus
The game supports, as well as develops, children’s essential skills while giving them a super time playing. As children explore the colorful world of Didi & Ditto, they will discover the hidden activities that help them acquire age-appropriate knowledge such as recognizing letters and numbers, counting, classifying, identifying shapes, recognizing sounds, while developing observation skills, understanding oral instructions, etc. Three levels of difficulty are available.

Children will practice:

Pre-reading: recognize letters, learn the alphabet

Pre-math: recognize numbers, count, identify shapes, use spatial sense

Science: recognize animals, learn about the environment learn about healthy eating

Art/Music: know colors, recognize sounds, sing

Thinking skills: use observation skills, sort by attributes, understand
oral instructions

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My toddler sat on my lap while I was running through this game and she would laugh and point when characters came on screen. One thing I noticed was how brilliant the colors were in this game. And on top of being nice to look at the gameplay was good too. She was trying to make the sounds that were in the game and said circle more than once. In this game they can learn to understand oral instructions. And while my toddler still doesn’t understand the word “NO” I think this program will be very valuable to her in the very near future. I am proud of the different words she was trying to say and the excitement she had every time a new character came on the screen.

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The great people over at Kutoka have offered me a extra copy to give to one of my readers. If you would like to experience the world of Didi & Ditto with your child then enter to win this copy, you and your child will have fun. Rules are below:

MAIN RULE – Go to the Kutoka website and on the two pages tell me which you or your child’s favorite character would be. (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
1 Extra Entry – Subscribe to my RSS feed or by email (or let me know if you already are) in a separate comment
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2 Extra Entries – Write a post on your blog linking to my blog and to Kutoka website.

This giveaway will run through midnight on December 31, with winner being announced the morning of the January 1, 2009. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and submitted to PRIZEYWinners as well as notified via email the first week of December. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.