Little Tikes: kidBoard

by KB Gear

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002NDQY
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,314 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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This durable, brightly colored keyboard plugs into any computer, replacing the existing keyboard. Keys are color coated, with pictures next to each letter for letter/picture association, e.g. G=Grape. This new edition is also distributed by the toy manufacturer, Little Tikes and comes bundled with a dated version of JumpStart Preschool, an outstanding software program. This is a novelty item as opposed to a necessity, but the price is quite good considering the combo of keyboard plus software. Note that adapters for the Macintosh are available for an extra cost- call the company for details.
Teaches: (a plug-in keyboard)
Age Range: 2-6 Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue

Amazon.com Review

Replace your plain gray keyboard with this personable school-bus-yellow fellow, and kids who never looked twice at your workspace will pause, do a double take, and say, "Hey, cool!" This fully functional keyboard is the same as the one you use; it just has a friendlier face.

Most of the oval board is that jarring yellow color. Letter keys are purple; numbers and the space bar bright red; and blue plastic (nonfunctional, darn it) eyebrows, eyes, and mouth personalize the keyboard. It looks like a guy with one heck of a complicated nose.

This bright keyboard is easy to plug into your CPU, but you'll have to buy an adapter if you have a five-pin keyboard port. Keys are standard sized.

Each letter key has a corresponding icon on it: M has a moon, F has a frog, and so on. An accompanying CD-ROM, KidBoard Coach, guides kids through five activities that help with letter recognition and keyboarding speed. The software is probably the weakest part of this package. The "coach" is well intentioned, but the activities feel like drills, not games.

The keyboard itself is a sturdy, happy guy. He survived trips to a few different households and patiently smiled beneath the grubby fingers of many children. And yes, he endured many curious pokes in the eye. (Ages 3 and older) --Anne Erickson

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Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great way to introduce letters and computers to toddlers!!, January 28, 2002

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Lourdes Dilanco (Sinajana, GU United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little Tikes: kidBoard (CD-ROM)

I absolutely love this keyboard. We've had it for over two years, when our frst child was almost two years old. It's a great way to introduce computers to children. There are pictures on the keys which represents objects that begins with that letter (example: a queen for the letter q or an apple for the letter a). It helped increase my son's vocabulary and eventually helped him associate the words to the letters. There is a software that comes with it designed to help with letter recognition and association. We also bought the little cozy coupe mouse and together with this keyboard my son can operate the computer to put on his educational games. Our son was 1 year and 9 months when we first gave him this keyboard. He is now a month away from his 4th birthday and it is has been an excellent educational tool. It is brightly colored and definitely attracts his attention, he can literally spend 4-6 hours playing on the computer with his other educational and fun cd-rom games. We absolutely love it and have nothing bad to say about it. We have never had a problem with it and thus have never needed to call little tikes, but i'm sure they'll rectify any problem you may come across. We now have a 9month old and she loves to bang on the keyboard, maybe she'll start on computers earlier than her borther.

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kid Whiz, November 19, 2000

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Misty Gallagher (IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Little Tikes: kidBoard (CD-ROM)

My 3 1/2 loves this keyboard. It has helped him spell his name and teach him his letters. I would recomend this to anyone.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars cool keyboard, November 26, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Little Tikes: kidBoard (CD-ROM)

It functions the same as a stock keyboard. However,its durability and more importantly its lifetime warranty makes it economically efficent especially, if there are other children who will be using it later on.