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Play
& Learn Children's Bible CD features
50
read-aloud
interactive Bible stories
with
multiple pages of illustrations and narrated kid-friendly text for
preschoolers and early readers up to about age 6 or 7.
The stories are organized by theme and by the values they teach
(a typical way many curricula are organized for this age group).
View list of stories below. Each of the 50 stories
has 3 to 5 interactive 'pages' that 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 it for them, or
they can 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. They can also click
the Bible icon to search for interesting narrated study notes (such as
the one about shepherds seen on this page below).
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
Print our Teaching
Tips for Play and Learn
Opinion: Play & Learn Children's Bible
CD
versus Charlie Church
Mouse and Heavenword CDs
IN THE GAMEROOM:
Click on the
Jesus & Animals icon and you launch the gameroom menu. This is
definitely a favorite area for the kids! It includes....
- Bible
songs sing-a-long ...16 songs to choose from.
Lyrics are presented
onscreen and cute animations of kids singing and playing instruments.
He's got the whole
world in his hands, This little light of mine, Father Abraham, ...16
classics!
- Bible picture
puzzles for 25 of the stories
(onscreen). Children pick the puzzle, then scramble it. They can
play it in easy or hard mode, then they drag the pieces into the right
puzzle locations.
- Bible Paint coloring activity for the other 25 stories
(onscreen). Kids have an onscreen crayon they can use to select colors
and paint/fill-in the picture any way they want.
- Mazes to play onscreen. Just a fun
doo-dad game where kids use their mouse to help a mouse get out of a
maze.
- ABC and 123 activities
to play onscreen. Kids use their
mouse to unscramble the numbers.
Why do I keep
using the words "onscreen"
and "interactive" in
reference to this CD?
Play & Learn Children's
Bible CD is truly interactive software and not a warmed over set of illustrations
with audio as some preschool software we've seen.
Heavenword CD sold by Cokesbury, only has one illustration
per story, and IMHO, the story-narration-vocab is too stiff and
too old for
the little guys. I mention that not to put them down, but to
inform. We get asked all the time about why we don't carry Heavenword. Play & Learn Bible has multiple animated
illustrations per story and very kid-friendly language. Play &
Learn Children's Bible CD has been around many years and
continues to be the best for preschoolers.
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I have used this CD
dozens of times in my own classes and the little dudes never seem to
tire of it. My
kids like to take turns 'running' the story and clicking the cute
animations on each screen, and we often end up viewing the same story at
least twice, which helps them remember it.
When they're THIS interested
and captivated, they don't ask to go to the bathroom and
are not so easily
distracted. Because they are happy and focused, it is easy to talk with them
about the story.
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, difficult Bible versions, only
one illustration per story, poor sound, etc., etc.). We love Play and
Learn so much, that after many years we bought it from the developer to
keep it in print. <>< Neil
Look for it in the
preschool section of our online order form
To order,
go to our online order form.
$15 for one CD
$13 each for 2-4 copies
$12 each for 5+ copies
$11 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 low 8+ price a
permanent feature for this program.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Windows
95/98/Me/XP/Vista* (100mhz or higher).
**Runs in Vista SP1.
(See our Vista Tweaks
if you need
help. You'll need to create a folder on your Vista computer and copy the
CD into it.) Currently will not run in Windows 7.
AGE RANGE:
The upper age limit for this CD is about mid-way through the second
grade year, after which some children will feel like the program is too
young for them. I've also used it with 3 yr olds. They take to it like
ducks to water.
HELPFUL TECH NOTE:
This program displays 640x480 in size, so we recommend you set your
monitor to that or 800x600 to fill out the screen. In Vista, you can
right-click the start file, select Properties | Compatibility, and
select 'run in 640x480 window for maximum viewing width.
COLORING PAGE PRINTING NOTE:
The people who pay for
the color inkjet cartridges at your home or church will appreciate the
fact that the kids cannot print the painted picture pages from within
the program. You can, however, screencapture them and paste them into
any document and print them that way if your child insists.
To order,
go to our online order form.
$15 for one CD
$13 each for 2-4 copies
$12 each for 5+ copies
$11 each for 8+ copies
Look for it in the Preschool section half way down
our
online order form
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