Product Review: Augmented Reality Flashcards 1 - ANIMAL 4D+ Alphabet Cards

We are very excited to bring you the review of Augmented Reality Flash Cards from Code Juniors. We had received a pack of Animals 4D+ Alphabet Cards and Dinosaurs 4D+ The Prehistoric Experience Flashcards.  In this post, we will review on the Animal 4D+ Alphabet Cards.

This Animals Alphabet cards consist of 26 cards from letters A-Z. 

The size of the cards is 11.7cm x 72cm; a good size to hold and easy to carry around.

On one side of the card is illustrated with the animal and its name; on the other side is just the letter.  

Animal 4D+ Alphabet Cards  is not colourfully printed, it is just in black and white.

When I first show the cards to the boys, they thought it's just another card games. However, once it is view through the smartphone or tablet, the animals came alive in Augmented Reality (AR). The boys were very excited, we could see the animal moving and hear the sounds that the animal makes.

We could also listen to the pronounciation of the animal's name in the selected language. This is great for the boys to learn the animals name in English, Chinese, Bahasa and even more. There are a total of 9 languages to be selected.  

 

The menu will also changed according to the selected language.  This is extremely useful especially when the boys are playing together with the grandparents. Not only are the boys excited with the flashcards, the grandparents are equally thrilled by the augmented reality of the images.   

Grandmother and grandchildren exploring the flashcards

We could use finger pinching and spreading action on the smartphone to zoom in or out the animal. Moving the flashcard or smartphone in different angle would allowed us to view the animal in 360°. 

The boys could observed how each and every animal moves around in their unique way. 

The app could detects few animals at the same time.

Other than observing the animals, we could also interact with the animals by feeding them. There are a few food cards for the animals. Some of the animals shared the same food card.

Once the food card is placed, the animals will walk or hop or leap to its corresponding food and begin eating. You could feed a few animals at the same time too!

The boys love seeing how the animal go after the food when the food card is move around.   

Videos below shows how the animals interact with the food

There is a side menu on the right with the list of animals. It will display the encyclopedic information of the selected animal.

You can choose to view the animal in 2D or 3D. When it is in 3D, you could use finger to swipe it left and right to see the different angle of it. The information is great for parents to read ahead and further explain and discuss with the child. However, I think it would be even better if there's button for the kids to listen to it. 

The information could be viewed in different languages too.

Just below the interaction menu selection, there is a selection for QUIZ!

My boys enjoyed trying to spell the name of the animals correctly.

Once it is spelled correctly, a tick is shown

A cross is shown when it is spelled wrongly. However, the correct spelling is not displayed.  It would be great if it could display the correct spelling if wrong spelling is submitted.

The quiz is available in different language too.

Conclusion:

We had a great time playing and learning through this flash cards. It will be even more fun if we have a tablet/ipad for bigger and clearer view of the animals (it is not easy to squeeze more than 2 heads looking at the screen and accommodating all their fingers touching the screen at the same time).  Another plus point, the app could runs without internet connection, except for the initial download. There's no need to worry of the data connection, just be prepared for LOTS OF LAUGHTER!  

Grandmother and Grandchildren having a great laugh :) 

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Disclaimer:

This is a personal blog and I did not receive any monetary compensation for this product review; I received this product for free in consideration for review.  All opinions and photos are mine and based on our personal use and results. 

DIY Aquarium

Upcycling empty tissue boxes to make little aquariums to add on to their animal families free play activities.

As a mom to multiples, I strongly encourage them to share their toys.  However, this depends on the nature or size of the toy, if the size is sufficiently big to ergonomically positioned and shared among three of them (such as the DIY cardboard carpark), I would just make 1 piece, and they would share; if the size is small, I would prefer to make 3.  

I usually keep the design simple, because I will be making 3 sets, complicated designs will takes forever to complete.  And most of all, the simplicity will give more space  develop their creativity and imagination.  

Day 1:

I helped them to cut and strengthen the tissue boxes. They will help to glue the corrugated blue paper (as water) and light yellow color paper (as sand) into the respective boxes.  Once they had completed the pasting, they were already arranging their little aquatic friends into the new 'home' 

  

Day 2:

I drew out some fishes for them to colour. Then I gave them thread and masking tape to hang up the fishes.  They could tape it nicely and independently. 

Syuen's Aquarium

Hung's Aquarium

Juin's Aquarium

They call this "Animals Family"
They insisted that some of the farm animals had to be there when taking this photo.

Free Play - animals, boxes & lots of imaginations

These few weeks the boys were into their "animal family".  Everyday, they would emptied the animals toy box along with other toy boxes (be it trucks, blocks, puzzles or boxes) to create their own free play & stories.   

Hung's animals were having a ride on the truck. Patience & steady hands needed to cleverly balance as many toys as possible on the truck. 

Syuen & Juin were in a discussion... Discussing on how to arrange the animals on the 'beach' 

Those jigsaw puzzle pieces were the sand & hill. The animals are on the beach enjoying sunset. 

Happily Posing with their stories.

From their free play, they had inspired me to make a DIY Aquarium for their Aquatic Families.