Didi, Ditto lead youngsters on rich learning adventure

— -- If you are looking for quality children's software for your preschooler, Didi & Ditto Preschool: Mother Nature's Visit, a new game from award-winning Kutoka Interactive, provides a rich learning adventure for you to explore with your child.

The game takes kids on a fanciful adventure while offering 16 activities that help them learn pre-reading, pre-math, science, music and art. Kids will also learn about eating healthy foods and helping the environment.

Preschoolers enter Smart Valley, a lush, colorful world where animals talk and magic occurs. There, they meet Didi and Ditto, young beaver twins, and a host of other animals who need help planning a party for Mother Nature.

Zolt, a vegetarian wolf, causes trouble for the party planners by breaking their musical instruments and stealing their party food. By playing through the 16 activities, preschoolers will fix the instruments and earn the party food. They can choose to play as Didi, the girl beaver, or Ditto, the boy.

Kids discover the 16 learning activities when visiting eight locations. Each activity can be played on three levels of difficulty. For example, when in the Deep Forest, you are shown a picture of a monkey and asked to click on one of four pictures that show a baby monkey.

Other activities have kids fishing alphabets out of a pond, gathering ingredients to make healthy foods, jumping on lily pads to make them change color and shape, and collecting mushrooms to learn to count. To reassemble the broken musical instruments, exercises call for studying pictures and then finding the parts that create the whole. These activities can be played separately from the adventure.

In addition to the structured learning activities, the game is full of other whimsical learning moments. In each of the locations, kids are encouraged to move the cursor around to see if it changes from purple to yellow. When it does, if kids click, they will be rewarded with a special animation, such as a fun learning activity in which two birds fly out holding pictures of eggs in their beaks and ask kids to determine which picture has more eggs. Or it may be silly, as in watching a big blue bear do a dance.