Blue's Clues: Blue's ABC Time Activities

by Humongous Entertainment

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000053F7X
• Item model number: 0418109
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 31, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,729 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #33 in Software > Children's Software > Reading & Language
  • #48 in Software > Games > Mac Games > Action
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Explore the world of letters, sounds, and words with Blue and her friends in this activity pack filled with multilevel learning games. Identify letters, build vocabulary, practice phonics, and create rhymes as you collect words to help Blue build silly stories in her Word Book. The more words you collect, the more stories you can create and print out.

Blue and her friends help strengthen early learning skills, including initial letter recognition, upper and lowercase letter discrimination, alphabet recognition and sequencing, phonics, visual and auditory discrimination, consonant blends, word formation, early vocabulary, and rhyming.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars wide variety of activities, November 5, 2001

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Science Mom (Durango, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue's Clues: Blue's ABC Time Activities (CD-ROM)

The wide variety of activities means there is always something new and different - and the printable activities (the mazes and books mean you can take the activites with you - COOL). Some activites are harder than others, but the hard ones give a challenge while the easier ones give some confidence building - and my little one rests a while in an easy activity and then gets back to the harder ones. He's learning to recognize letters and he's already good at HEARING the rhymes even though he can't read them yet.

Previous reviewers said the game is confusing - yes it does take some figuring out, but I think it is more confusing to us goal oriented adults. We want to know how to win the points and earn the prize. My son (age 2) just enjoys the PROCESS of playing - he doesn't really care if he collects enough letters to make a word - but that will come later. For now he's learning learning learning and when all that repitition makes collecting words easy THEN he'll figure out what to do with the word book.

The reviewer that suggested you learn how to play first and then guide your child was absolutely right. And that goes for ANY software at this age.

P.S. for all you goal oriented adults: you earn letters by completing any task in any of the activities. When you get three letters they will be a three letter word. When you go to your word book these words wil be waiting for you to put them on the page that matched the word color. Later you can insert these words in the blanks to make stories. You can even print the stories, or the book of words you collected, or the animal pictures you collected.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not her favorite, but useful, December 4, 2003

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Tracy "tmk" (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue's Clues: Blue's ABC Time Activities (CD-ROM)

I bought this software when my daughter was 3. She doesn't love it and never asks for it, but if I put it in, the games hold her interest. I don't think she understands the overall scheme of making a "word-book," and she can't do everything the games will let her do. However, after a few frustrating times playing the spelling game, I was surprised that she could construct the pictures using the shapes provided and put the letters in their places to spell the words. From just this game she learned how to drag and drop with the mouse. And something clicked in her mind about reading. I saw a direct transfer of her putting letters in already-made places to her trying to make words with magnets on the refrigerator and learning to read words on paper. I think she also got a better idea from this game about how to guess a word based on the clue of the picture. All the words from the game quickly became sight words for her. My daughter's not 4 yet, but can sound out words and knows words by sight because of games like this.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Blue's Clues Fun, March 10, 2003

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Miss Mia "mamamiam" (KY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue's Clues: Blue's ABC Time Activities (CD-ROM)

My 2 1/2 year-old son enjoys this game. He gets a little bored with the intro. because he's anxious to begin playing, but loves the game. I was surprised at how well he did. Don't be afraid to let one this young play with the mouse and try to do it on his/her own. Just be ready to provide help as they need it.

This game offers different activities like simple puzzle piecing with the Felt Friends, letter recognition with Mail Box, letter sounds with Mr. Salt & Mrs. Pepper, rhyming with Slippery Soap, and more. I like the variety, because there are activities that my son can already enjoy and then others that he can enjoy as his skills improve.

The storybook part of the game was a little confusing at first. But once you realize that certain color words go on certain color pages, it's easy to understand. However, this part of the game is a little more advanced in the learning stage for kids.

I do recommend this game. I only wish it had a painting section for my child. I realize that there is separate game for art time activites, but it would be nice if it had a painting section, along with these activities.