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Monkey Preschool Lunchbox, an app that teaches children about colors, letters, counting, shapes, differences, and matching, is available for both Android and Apple devices and is aimed at children ages 2 to 5. It's is fun and very cute—but after about five spastic minutes of play, I wanted to give that monkey a time out.

The object of the game is to fill the monkey's lunchbox with fruit. There are six different activities to let you accomplish that goal. The lunchbox never fills up; you just keep scrolling through the activities until your child has had enough.

On one page, the monkey asks for six bananas. Six bananas float above the lunchbox. If you touch a banana, it is counted aloud and then flown down into the lunchbox. Once six bananas are in the box, you are moved along to the next activity.

Another activity may ask the child to touch all the orange fruit floating above the box. Or it will ask for the fruit that starts with the letter M, such as "melon."

Another matching activity gives you eight cards, each with a monkey face on it. It asks for two of each kind of fruit, and you have to flip the cards over two at a time to find matching fruits. Once you find a match, the fruits fly into the lunchbox. It reminds me of the board game Memory.

If your child mismatches the cards or chooses the wrong color or letter of fruit, the monkey makes a little "uh-oh" sound and frowns. You don't fail out of the game or lose points, since no points are ever accumulated. This isn't a win-or-lose type activity. It is just for learning and fun.

The reward is a digital sticker you can put on a "canvas board" every time you successfully scroll through a new series of activities. Your board will accumulate stickers as you play, but the activities don't get harder as you continue.

https://apps.apple.com/ph/app/monkey-preschool-lunchbox/id328205875