Ellie's Games: Color Sliders

Color Sliders is probably the most difficult of the apps from Ellie's Games. It uses color sliding to match colors. It's beyond Little at the moment, but my 8 year old enjoys it. While we LOVE Ellie's Games, this is our least favorite app. Still fun, just not exactly our cup of tea.

How to Play: Color Sliders is a color matching game where you try and align the different columns to match the color on the left and right of the screen. Each level an additional color is added to the wheels. This is a concentration puzzle game.
Specifics:

Cost: $0.99
Size: 3.6 MB
Compatible with: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, running iOS 3.2 or later.

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The screen clearing when the rows line up.

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I'll admit. It's a short video and I helped Little get the row lined up.





Ellie's Games: Rain Dots

Rain Dots is a visually stimulating experience. Rain Dots enforces color recognition, finger isolation, eye tracking, and fine motor skills. Little loves to play just so he can fill up the screen with the bright, vivid colors. This is his second favorite game (next to Color Dots). Like other Ellie's Games, there is no loud reprimand when the child gets the color incorrect, the dot simply refuses to pop.

Rain Dots contains bright colors and sound to stimulate a child's interest in the game. There are NO ADS ever in Ellie's Games, which makes this perfect for toddlers just starting to learn their colors. There are also customizable settings that allow you to turn off the dot border, change the rain speed, and change the rain drop rate.

How to Play: Rain Dots is a color matching game. There are two dots at the bottom of the screen that show you what color to touch. Different color dots will fall from the sky. You want to try and pop the dots that are the same color as the color as the bottom dots

Specifics:

Cost: $0.99
Size: 4.2 MB
Compatible with: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, running iOS 3.2 or later.

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Video:  Little playing Rain Dots

Ellie's Games: Dot Collector

Dot Collector is a simple visual tracking, finger isolation game. Tap and hold the dot, then drag it to the black hole. Once it disappears, more reappear. The farther you go, the more challenging it is to collect the dots. Like all of Ellie's Games, Dot Collector contains bright colors and sound to stimulate a child's interest in the game. There are NO ADS ever in Ellie's Games, which makes this perfect for infants and toddlers.

How to Play: Like mentioned above, tap/hold the dot, and drag it to the black hole. Each time you collect all the dots on the screen, more will appear.

Specifics:

Cost: $0.99
Size: 4.0 MB
Compatible with: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, running iOS 3.2 or later.

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Little playing Dot Collector

Ellie's Games: Color Dots

Color Dots is a fun visual tracking Game. I tend to compare it to colored bubble wrap. It's such a FUN game to play. There's no goal. It's simply just popping the differently colored dots. Little spends HOURS playing on this application. It was also our very first app from Ellie's Games and it the one that got us hooked.

Color Dots contains bright colors, vibration(iPhone), and sound to stimulate a child's interest in the game. There are NO ADS ever in Ellie's Games, which makes this perfect for infants and toddlers. There are also customizable settings that allow you to turn off the dot border, remove the dot popping sound, add vibration (iPhone), reset dot size, and set the maximum amount of dots.

How to Play: So simple. Pop the first dot and you're addicted. Each subsequent popping adds more dots. Pop the first, two replace it. Pop those, three replace. It's so addicting and a great way to have fun. The children take turns seeing how fast they can get the screen cleared.

Specifics:

Cost: $0.99
Size: 3.9 MB
Compatible with: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, running iOS 3.2 or later.
(This app is also available on the Andriod  and Blackberry platforms.)

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My 4 year old, Little, playing Color Dots

Ellie's Games: Color Squares

Color Squares is a visual tracking application that can also teach children their colors as they play. While not quite as addicting as Color Dots, this game is still widely popular in this house. You simply run your finger (or in Little's case, fingers) over the squares until they all change to one big colored square.

Color Squares contains vividly bright colors and smooth animations that will keep any young child's interest. Because there is no objective, children will feel no disappointment. They just simply keep swiping the differently colored squares to make one large one.

How to Play: Color Squares is a game where you try and clear the screen of mismatch colors. Each level starts with a screen full of different colors. Each time you touch a square, it reveals the background color. Try and clear the screen of colorful squares.

Specifics:
Cost: $0.99
Size: 3.7 MB
Compatible with: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, running iOS 3.2 or later.

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My 4 year old, Little, playing Color Squares

Ellie's Games: Counting Dots

Counting Dots is a numerical game that teaches children to count from one to whatever!! Each time the child gets the sequence correctly, the dots reset and go onto the next sequence. Mistakes are simply ignored, in that the dot won't pop. Visual colors, sounds, and vibration (iPhone) help to keep young children's interest. This is currently one of Little's favorite number-based applications.

Like all Ellie's Games, Counting Dots contains bright colors, vibration(iPhone), and sound to stimulate a child's interest in the game. There are NO ADS ever in Ellie's Games, which makes this perfect for toddlers just starting to learn their numbers. There are also customizable settings that allow you to turn off the dot border, remove the dot popping sound, and add vibration (iPhone).

How to play: Simply pop the dots in sequential numerical order from smallest to largest.

Specifics:

Cost: $0.99
Size: 4 MB
Compatible with:  iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, running iOS 3.2 or later.
(This app is also available on the Andriod platform.)

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Little playing Counting Dots

Ellie's Games: Alphabet Dots

Alphabet Dots is an alphabetical game used to teach children the alphabet in a fun, interesting way. There is no reprimanding when the child gets it wrong, it simply won't pop the dot. While, this game is beyond Little at this point, my older girls (Ages 8 and 11) enjoy the game, even though they already know their letters.

Alphabet Dots contains bright colors, vibration(iPhone), and sound to stimulate a child's interest in the game. There are NO ADS ever in Ellie's Games, which makes this perfect for toddlers just starting to learn their letters. There are also customizable settings that allow you to turn off the dot border, remove the dot popping sound, reset the high scores, and add vibration (iPhone).

How to play: Simply pop the dots in alphabetical order from A-Z. If you need a hint, simply waiting a few seconds will cause the game to wiggle the next letter.

Specifics:

Cost: $0.99
Size: 4 MB
Compatible with: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, running iOS 3.2 or later.

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Sorry the video is sideways. This is NOT Little. It's my 11 year old.