Leapster Explorer
This is an attachment and only works with the Leapster Explorer™ handheld (sold separately).
Turn the Leapster Explorer™ handheld into a digital camera and video recorder! Kids can take pictures and personalize them and shoot movies for music videos. Eight activities encourage creative expression, explore emotions and help build skills with letters, numbers and shapes.
• Take, store and edit up to 1,000 photos.
• Stretch, stamp and draw on pictures to personalize them.
• Create puzzles or use photos to tell a story.
• Turn photos into characters to zap letters or numbers in fun activities.
• Appropriate for children ages 4 to 9 years. Only for use with the Leapster Explorer™ handheld (sold separately).
- Sorting and classifying
- Sorting and classifying objects based on size, function, or weight involves logical reasoning skills essential for learning.
- Shapes
- Children learn to recognize the defining properties of shapes (such as a square having four sides of equal length and a triangle having three sides) and identify them in different rotations.
- Counting
- Children learn to count and compare sets of objects.
Leapster Explorer™
2011
Toy Industry Association: TOTY Award - Educational Toy of the Year
The Doctors, December 17, 2010
Title: Healthy Holiday Giveaways
“Leapster Explorer is one of the hottest items this holiday.”
http://www.thedoctorstv.com/main/show_page/D3074
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, December 16, 2010
Title: Toys For Tots Donation
“Toys ‘R’ Us has donated over $1 million worth of toys including this Leapster Explorer by LeapFrog, and that’s fun for little kids. They learn and explore and they leap!”
Associated Press, December 16, 2010
Title: Gift Guide: Techie kids’ toys for every age group
“LeapFrog's Leapster Explorer ($70, ages 4-9) skews slightly older with a design that looks like a handheld gaming system. Indeed, it uses games to teach kids reading, match, geography, science and music. The Explorer also has a camera for taking photos and recording video.
http://www.timesunion.com/living/article/Gift-Guide-Techie-kids-toys-for-every-age-group-903885.php#ixzz1A0KldJ00
CNBC Squawk Box, December 15, 2010
Title: Santa’s Most Wanted Toys
“Leapster Explorer is a very hot, handheld electronic learning device [that is] what you get your kid before you get them a Nintendo DS.”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1697024493&play=1
Parenting.com, December 13, 2010
Title: Best Educational Electronic Toy Gift Guide
My Own Leaptop, Tag, and Leapster Explorer were included in Parenting.com’s “Best Educational Electronic Toy” gift guide for the holidays.
http://www.parenting.com/gallery/Child/educational-electronic-toys
USA Weekend Magazine, December 12, 2010
Title: The Best New Toys of the Season
“This durable handheld device [Leapster Explorer] delivers age-appropriate games, videos and e-books.”
http://www.usaweekend.com/article/20101210/MONEY01/12120310/The-best-new-toys-of-the-season
CNN Saturday Morning, December 11, 2010
Title: Best Tech Gifts
“Leapster Explorer has the ability to help teach math, science, geography and phonics with characters kids know and love.”
Good Morning America, December 2, 2010
Title: Top Toys of 2010
“Leapster Explorer is a nice game-oriented educational gift where kids have fun and learn.”
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/holiday-shopping-parents-magazines-top-toys-2010/story?id=12290981
New York Times, December 1, 2010
Title: Tech Toys to Keep Your Gift Budget in Balance
“VTech’s MobiGo is the cheapest and easiest to use, featuring a qwerty keyboard, although the games don’t teach as effectively as the Leapster Explorer, Leapfrog’s first major overhaul of the Leapster line, with a newer, brighter screen.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/technology/personaltech/02basics.html?_r=1&src=dayp
Package Dimensions:
5.625 x 8.25 x 2.0 inches
Package Weight:
0.63 lbs
