MyPlay Chef Lite
By Carrie R. Wheadon,
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Free cooking app with some fun interactive moments.
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What’s It About?
Choose a chef, give him or her a name, and click the "Get Cookin'" button. Kids can make four dishes: pancakes, a sandwich, pasta, and a garishly decorated cupcake. Add the ingredients one at a time and do a few interactive extras: stir batter by twirling your finger, tilt the screen to flip a pancake, tap blueberries on top in fun patterns, and then either save your creation or tap to "eat." Chomp chomp.
Is It Any Good?
With just four dishes, MYPLAY CHEF LITE is not a particularly filling app. But nabbing the free version for a long wait at the post office isn't a bad idea. Sitting with kids and talking them through the steps may make the experience a bit more educational. The app developers could have helped you along by labeling all the ingredients and kitchen equipment and the steps in big letters and including talk of measurements, cooking times, and temperatures. For the cupcakes it looks like you add two cups of baking powder -- yikes.
Still, there are some fun interactive moments that keep kids engaged: stirring batter, flipping a pancake, and tapping oodles of meatballs on top of spaghetti.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Get cooking for real with kids. Model how to measure and talk about what a recipe looks like, what ingredients are wet and dry, and more.
Watch a pro kitchen in action (on TV, on the Internet, or at a real-life restaurant), pointing out what all the big chefs are up to.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android , Kindle Fire
- Subjects: Language & Reading : following directions, Hobbies : cooking
- Pricing structure: Free
- Release date: April 25, 2012
- Category: Educational Games
- Topics: Cooking and Baking
- Publisher: College Fitness
- Version: 1.5.44
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 4.1 or later
- Last updated: July 9, 2020
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