Each of the 50 stories has 3 to 5 'pages' the children flip through to see, hear and play with the story. (some other programs of this kind only give you one picture per story).

Kids pick a story and the program asks them if they want a narrator to read, or read it themselves. After a brief narration on each page, kids can hunt for fun animations hidden in each screen. When they rollover the animation funspots, their cursor changes and the kids can click to play them. The kids LOVE this feature. See the video demo for examples.

Each page has kid-friendly text and vocabulary spoken by a pleasant voice. The vocabulary used to tell the stories is at about age 4 to 6. Each story ends with an age appropriate question about the story's meaning for young children.

Play & Learn's 50 stories were written by popular children's Christian author Gilbert Beers. Each Bible story is paraphrased and shortened in an easy to understand version for pre-and early reader, just like you'd expect for a Bible story book for children.

See a list of the 50 stories on this CD

Print a handout of the 50 Stories
to give to your teachers or post in your classroom

View a 2 minute VIDEO DEMO
of Play & Learn Childrens Bible in action

 
Stories are organized by theme

 

The pages are warmly drawn and easy to navigate for young children. Each story is narrated and has multiple pages with clickable animated funspots.

• Bible songs sing-a-long ...16 songs
   
• Bible picture puzzles for 25 of the stories (onscreen)
   
• Bible Paint coloring activity for the other 25 stories (onscreen)
   
• MUSIC BOX Bible Songs Sing-a-long
   
• Mazes to play onscreen
   
• ABC and 123 activities to play onscreen

Why do I keep saying "onscreen" ?
...Because some non-reader Bible software produced over the years only allows you to print the activities. Whereas, Play & Learn Children's Bible CD is truly SOFTWARE ~the kids play the activities on screen with their mouse.

This CD continues to be a popular item that gets good reviews. And it runs on new as well as older computers. Unfortunately, however, it will not run in Vista.

Most other preschooler Bible CDs have serious flaws or are just plain bad (poor graphics, age inappropriate difficult Bible versions, only one illustration per story, poor sound, etc., etc.)

 <>< Neil

Update:
We loved this program so much we bought it from the developer! Thus our great quantity pricing below...

25 of the 50 Stories are turned into puzzles.

25 of the 50 stories have coloring pages

To order, call 800-678-1948 or use our online order form.

New Quantity Pricing!

Play & Learn is $15 for one CD
$12 each for 2-4 copies
$10 each for 5+; 
$8 each for 8+ copies

Over the years, several churches have purchased large quantities of this program to give to each of their preschoolers. So we've made our super-quantity price a permanent feature.
 

System Requirements:

Windows 95/98/Me/XP/Vista** (100mhz or higher). **May not run in Vista. Some customers can get it to run in Vista without problem. May have to do with the latest Vista Updates they have installed. The upper age limit for this CD is about mid-way through the second grade year. This program displays 640x480 in size, so we recommend you set your monitor to that or 800x600 to fill out the screen.

Play & Learn is $15 for one CD.
$12 each for 2-4 copies
$10 each for 5+ copies 
$6 each for 8+ copies

Call 800-678-1948 or use our online order form.
Look for it about half way down our order form in the first section of software.

System Spec: Windows 95/98/Me/XP (100mhz or higher). The upper age limit for this CD is about mid-way through the second grade year. See Vista note above.

Special Large Quantity Pricing:  Need 8+copies? They're just $6. Some churches and schools give this CD to every one of their preschoolers to use at home.

I'm often asked why we don't carry "Heavenword" CD for the little guys. It has been on our "No Shelf" for many years. Here are two of many reasons: 1) It only has one picture per story. Only the text changes. ...and... 2) Its written content isn't as age appropriate as Play and Learn's.

Here's some great feedback on Play & Learn:

Dear Neil,

My oldest teacher was tickled to death with this program. She said she had finally found a reason to become computer literate! She is about 65-70 years old and does a great job teaching our K-1st grade class but I think she is thrilled to find something new to do with the kids that is really worthwhile.

--Anita Shoemaker, Fleming Road UCC, Cincinnati.