Hooked on Phonics Preschool Math – Smart Cart Numbers, Shapes, Colors app for iPhone and iPad

Hooked on Phonics Smart Cart is a charming, mouth-watering way for 2- to 5-year-old kids to learn about math, numbers, shapes, colors, and more. It’s a preschool game on wheels, where the real treat is . . . learning!

Get kids ready for preschool and kindergarten.

Teaches basic preschool skills such as matching numbers, shapes, colors, and letters, counting, and more.

Contains 11 learning activities and 4 creative play games.

Kid-tested, educator-approved preschool-skills app for 2- to 5-year-olds.

More than 1.5 million families have downloaded fun, educational apps from Hooked on Phonics.

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Hooked on Phonics apps have been featured in Common Sense Media’s Best of Ed Tech and have won numerous awards, including the National Parenting Publications Award.


11 educational activities plus 4 creative activities included

Educational Activities:

1) Letter-Name Recognition
AlphaBelch Monster is hungry. What does he want? Why alphabet-chocolates, of course! Feed him a chocolate to hear him burp the letter names.

2) Letter Matching
Find the pretzel that’s shaped like various capital letters.

3) Counting
Count the number of cherries on top of each banana split.

4) Shape Identification
Find the ice cream sandwich shaped like a circle, triangle, square, rectangle, star, diamond.

5) Color Identification
Make learning colors fun by identifying ice pops of various colors, including green, purple, orange, yellow, red.

6) Letter-Sound Recognition
Identify the beginning letter for different objects.

7) Number Identification
Count the number of scoops of ice cream on each cone. See if you can identify the number of scoops without counting.

8) Positional Words & Colors
Identify colors using the positional words: top, middle and bottom.

9) Color Recognition
Identify various colors of snow cones, including red, green, purple, yellow, blue.

10) Shape Identification
Find the fudge pop shaped like a triangle, circle, heart, star, square, diamond.

11) Number Identification
Count the number of chocolate chips on each ice cream sundae. Can you identify which sundae has more or less chips?

Creative Activities

1) Fruit Flies
Squash the fruit flies to make original fruit-colored works of art.

2) Ice Pop Piano
Compose your own original melody on this colorful and cute ice pop piano.

3) Candy-Colored Portraits
Use colorful candy straws to create silly portraits of 5 different characters. Don’t like what you did? No problem. Just tap the cloud, and POOF it’s gone!

4) Sugar and the Cones
Tap the freezer to get a taste of the coolest ABC rock group of this generation: Sugar and the Cones!

How it Works:

When you start the app, the first thing you‘ll need to decide is where you want to park your Smart Cart ice cream truck. Choose the beach, the park, or the city. Your ice cream truck will drive there, and you’ll be open for business.

Set Up Shop

After you’ve parked your truck, the gate will open, and customers will arrive.

Serve Your Customers

Crazy characters will appear in the window of your ice cream truck and place their orders. If you don’t see a person, just push the yellow Service button. Once they are there, touch anywhere in the service window and they’ll ask for delicious treats that match numbers, values, shapes, colors, and more. Then it will be up to you to find the right one and make the customer happy.

If you’re not ready to serve up a treat and just want to explore the goodies in your ice cream truck, tap the yellow Service button. Your customer will go away. But don’t worry. He or she will be back again soon!

Have Fun!

There are many more features to explore in your ice cream truck. Open the freezer to enjoy a rockin’ alphabet tune from Sugar and the Cones. Plunk out a little ditty on the ice-pop piano. Feed a chocolate to the alphabet-burping monster. Make art projects with fruit flies or powdered candy.

Laugh, learn, and have fun!