We wrote about iOS app Endless Alphabet when it came out last month. Since then, our two children have been hammering it on our iPad, so we thought we’d write about it again. It deserves it.
As we said then, the app is published by Callaway Digital Arts, and features a bunch of colourful monsters teaching phonics and words, with a different word for every letter of the alphabet.
They’re not the obvious ones either: Bellow, Hilarious, Juggle, Portrait, Rainstorm and Yodel are all in there.
The main activity involves dragging individual letters into place in each word, with the fun being that they shout as they go. “Ver! Ver-ver-ver-ver-ver!” for V, “La-la-la La-la!” for L, and most marvellously “Yeeeah! Yeaaah! Yeeeah! Yeah-yeah yeah-yeah Yeeeeah!” for Y.
The letters have teeth and boggly eyes, by the way.
Complete a word, and the monsters reappear to act it out in a series of frequently-hilarious scenes (well, hilarious once for parents, but repeatedly for children – our kids still laugh like drains at the ‘Scary’ animation in particular).
It’s just beautifully done, with real sparks of character and craft. We don’t write about that many apps twice, but we wanted to do it in this case after seeing the app hold our kids’ attention for a couple of weeks after we first downloaded it.
Oh, and Endless Alphabet is still free to download on the App Store, which is another reason for coming back to it. One of the first essential children’s app downloads of 2013, if you ask us. Here’s our own video that we’ve shot to give you a taster:
Great post! Love this app. We use it in our tutoring centre. We appreciate that it offers way more than simple three letter words (e.g. dog, cat, bye, etc.,). The animation is wonderful and keeps kids engaged.