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Sizzle & Stew

Sizzle & Stew
Reviewed on 8/17/18

Play in the kitchen with a llama and a silly sloth in this collaborative game. Do you want to eat or to cook? You can play in the dining room or the kitchen, and the activity options are wide open.  Do you want to fry a fish or put it in a juicer? And check out the wacky kitchen gadgets at the end of the counter--what do they do? You’ll have to experiment and try different things to understand how they work and discovery is half of the fun! There are a number of children’s apps with a cooking theme, but this is the first one I’ve seen with a split screen feature for two players.  This leads to much hilarity as you figure out how to pass objects from your view to the other player’s view and when you collaborate on cooking something together in the kitchen. Let’s just say that sloth has some reallllllly long arms! This app does a great job of designing gameplay specifically with the goal of getting users to play together on one screen.

Age group: Preschool, Grades K-2