I Spy Junior Puppet Playhouse (Jewel Case)

Brain-building games just right for preschoolers!

Product Information

Original stories and I Spy picture riddles come to life withhandmade puppets, props, and sets. Filled with fun, age-appropriate activities!

Inside the Puppet Playhouse, you'll find charming puppets, fascinating games, and rhyming riddles to solve. Playing make-believe has never been so fun!

What is I Spy?  I Spy, created by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick, is an award-winning series of books, software, jigsaw puzzles, and games for children. I spy combines intriguing photographs of familiar objects with rich rhyming riddles to createbran-testing puzzles that kids can't resist. Each time kids play I Spy, they discover clever object associations, word play, and themes which help them build important learning skills including reading, problem solving, and creativity. Kids think whenthey play I spy!




The Little Lost Whale
A young whale has lost his mother! The story unfolds as you solve eight different riddles.

Prop Box
Put on your thinking cap!
Use your classifying skills to sort the props into the correct bins in this multi-leveled game.

The Princess and the Dragon
The princess has lost her crown! Help her get it back from the sneaky dragon by solving the riddles whilebuilding early reading skills.

And More!
Watch the seasons change with The Changing Tree, follow The Bouncing Ball, be a Puppet Maker, and Make Your Own I Spy with dozens of props and backgrounds


Product Features

• Seven inviting play areas balance fun with learning.
• Clever rhyming riddles introduce basic reading principles
• Hundreds of object-and-word searches are
  
  Amazon.com Product Description
  Based on the I Spy book series by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick, I Spy Junior: Puppet Playhouse features puppets, games, and riddles to promote listening and problem-solving skills. An interactive story about a princess and a sneaky dragon strengthens rhyming and other word skills, a puppet-making workshop teaches kids to follow directions, and a magical animated tree helps promote early reading skills. Seven play areas in all offer a variety of fun learning activities.
  
  

The puppet shows are where you will spend most of your time. Each show is composed of four or five scenes which have a dozen or so clickable objects. A riddle appears at the bottom and you have to find the three or four objects that are in the riddle. When you click on a riddle object, it does something and advances the story. Each scene has two riddles and when you have gone through all the scenes, your done with that show. A kid might eventually learn the locations of all the objects in a particular show, but with four shows, it will take a while.

There is only one real problem I have with it, based on several sessions of lap play with my son. Because there are about a dozen objects in each scene, but you only need 3 or 4 for the riddle, the rest of the objects don't do anything when you click on them. I think every object should do something (wiggle, glow or zoom, at the very least) when it gets clicked, not just the riddle objects. This has led to my sons newest vocabulary word: "doesntwork". If not this, then at least the riddle objects from the first of the pair of riddles for a particular scene should still be active for the second of the pair. So, when you click on a riddle object from the first riddle, it should still do something, if not it's original action, when you are finding the objects from the second riddle. As it is now, my son tries to click on the objects which were just active in the previous riddle, but they "doesntwork".

But, overall, I'm pleased with it. There is no violent action and it is pretty exploratory and creative, as advertised.