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Weekly Creation Theme: Mother’s Day
This week, create a TinyTap game inspired by the theme “Mother’s Day.” Your game can be about anything: an interactive greeting card for your mom; a digital coupon packet for breakfast in bed, massages, and cleaning your room; a soundboard with all the things you love and appreciate about your mom; a montage of family photos… take the theme in whatever direction suits you! Pro tip: make your Mother’s Day game more personal by using your own family photos! … Read More
Weekly Creation Theme: Dinosaurs
This week, create a TinyTap game inspired by the theme “Dinosaurs.” Your game can be about anything: a lesson on extinction; a spelling game (c’mon, spelling “Micropachycephalosaurus” isn’t easy!); a categorization game about carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores; a matching game between species and fossils; an interactive guide to your local city’s museum of natural history … take the theme in whatever direction suits you! Pro tip: If you want to insert an image of a dinosaur from the web, … Read More
Weekly Creation Theme: Earth Day
This week, create a TinyTap game inspired by the theme “Earth Day.” Your game can be about anything: a lesson on pollution or environmental legislation; a quiz about which waste items can be recycled and composted; a soundboard of a house with tips for conserving energy (e.g. tap on the window and see a tip about closing windows while using air conditioning, or opening blinds to use daylight instead of artificial light) … take the theme in whatever direction suits … Read More
Weekly Creation Theme: April Showers
“April showers bring May flowers” This week, create a TinyTap game inspired by the theme “April Showers.” Your game can be about anything: a lesson on precipitation; a children’s story about rainy day adventures; a math game using rain drops as units to add or subtract; a soundboard with the images and names of Spring blossoms; a jigsaw puzzle with pieces in the shapes of umbrellas, clouds, and puddles … take the theme in whatever direction suits you! Pro tip: … Read More
How to create Matching games on TinyTap
Matching games teach children how to recognize commonalities among objects and identify patterns, both important exercises for building organizational skills. In math class, they encourage children to consider different expressions of the same concept (for example, 2+2 and 3+1 both equal 4) and when applied in a language class, matching games offer a fun format for reviewing vocabulary. While traditional matching games might conjure up images of crisscrossed worksheets or a worn stack of playing cards, connecting two parts of a pair by tapping and dragging … Read More
Play To Win: Introducing TinyTap’s Challenge Mode
Games are fun and all … but isn’t anyone keeping score?! TinyTap’s Challenge Mode gives a competitive edge to your favorite games and quizzes with leaderboards, time limits, and lives. Play to improve your score. Play to beat your friend. Play to master the material. Play to win. What kind of games can you create with the Challenge Mode? Trivia – Stump friends and family with DIY trivia contests about … well, any subject you choose! Invite your … Read More