Sago Mini Apartment
By Mieke VanderBorght,
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Ride elevator, visit friends to find limited free play.
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What’s It About?
There are seven floors in the SAGO MINI APARTMENT building, each with a different friend and activity. Choose a floor and have the elevator take you there to make music, vacuum, prepare sandwiches or ice cream cones, build toys, exercise, or grow plants on the rooftop garden. Silly options, like ice cream as a sandwich filling, accompany more usual choices. When finished, get back in the elevator and choose a different floor to try something else.
Is It Any Good?
Silliness abounds in this sweet collection of virtually open-ended activities for the little ones. As with other offerings from Sago Mini, Sago Mini Apartment has appealing -- and sometimes amusing -- graphics and likable characters that will easily please young kids. Activities, such as building ice cream cones or making music, are easily relatable. And, with no rules or limitations, kids are wonderfully free to explore, experiment, and fantasize to their little hearts' content -- within the confines of what's available in the app, that is. With seven activities, Sago Mini Apartment does offer a bit more than some other Sago Mini apps, but kids are still bound by a small set of very simplified and scripted activities. Kids also need to be surprisingly precise with where they place objects on the screen, which may be frustrating for young kids still working on their fine motor skills. However, all in all, Sago Mini Apartment remains appealing and easily accessible. Parents may especially enjoy it as one option to keep young kids' entertained when other options aren't available -- say, for a long plane trip.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about who and what kids discover in Sago Mini Apartment. Encourage them to tell stories and ask them to narrate their thoughts as they play. Who are you making that ice cream for? What's on the sandwich? What kind of plants are you growing?
Highlight the learning content in the games. Count out loud, talk about food choices, tidying up, or what plants need to grow.
Take the fun off the screen and do the same activities in real life. Get out some homemade musical instruments (a pot and a spoon make a great drum, for example), do some exercises, plant flowers or vegetables, or get the kids involved in making simple snacks.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android , Kindle Fire
- Skills: Creativity : imagination, Tech Skills : using and applying technology
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Release date: April 25, 2018
- Category: Education
- Publisher: Sago Sago
- Version: 1.0
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 7.0 or later; Android 4.1 and up
- Last updated: January 23, 2019
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