Barney: Secret of the Rainbow

If your kids love Barney, they will be thrilled to play with Barney and friends on Barney: Secret of the Rainbow. They may even begin to think about learning as a “T-rrific!” experience, as Barney would say. Although this software does teach a wide range of subjects compared to other pre-school games, the experience of playing with software that mimics the popular tv show may jumpstart your child’s education by making him passionate about learning.

Barney: Secret of the Rainbow is rich in arts and music, with activities that include coloring invitations, choosing costumes, dancing, and learning colors and shapes. Children will also learn important social skills, such as cleaning up trash and being friendly. Unfortunately, Barney does not focus on teaching some important skills that are necessary for kids as they prepare to enter kindergarten. Number recognition, letter recognition and patterns are some of the basic topics left out of these pre-school games.

The story starts as Barney and his friends prepare for a music festival. A rainbow has been painted to decorate the festival, but the colors have slid off onto the trees. In order to get the colors back, your preschooler must complete a task at each of the trees. The software is set up so you can select which activity you want to play and the order you want to play it in. Because your child can select what pre-school games fit her current interests, we feel that this is a better interface than the journey mode used in other pre-school games. The journey mode makes kids play activities in a certain order, which may make them lose interest when they come upon a task that is too hard or uninteresting at the moment.

Although the interface of these pre-school games is simple to use, preschoolers may be confused by the directions given by Barney. The instructions are only given once and since some activities are difficult to comprehend without direction, the lack of repeated information causes problems if a child misses the directions or accidentally skips them.

In the beginning of the game, users can select between an simple or hard level. The simple level mostly consists of activities that require the preschooler to push any key on the keyboard to complete a task. Although we comprehend that very young kids may have difficulty navigating the mouse, we were disappointed that the software creators did not make more interactive games that grant kids to be more active in the learning process. We worry that kids may lose interest in this pre-school game’s simple level because they are expected to sit at the computer and merely push a button.

The hard level had activities that required kids to use the mouse, helping them develop motor skills and computer skills. The pre-school games on the hard level presented activities that taught important subjects such as counting, shapes and colors much more concretely than the easier level.

The pre-school games also have features that Barney lovers will, well, love. Video clips from the tv show and printable coloring pages will delight preschoolers and motivate them to continue learning and playing.

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