Make a Scene: Farmyard (Pocket)

What it is: an app for creating sticker scenes with the farmyard theme. What you do with it: choose the background, drag the stickers from the menu, flip or move them to create your scene. There are over 50 stickers, 5 animated backgrounds and 6 animated foregrounds to choose from. Created scenes can be saved and shared.

What we liked: the concept, simple but very nice illustrations, good selection of stickers, lots of tiny fun details (many stickers are animated), good educational value (when you grab a sticker the name of the animal/object will be read out: 'spotty pig', 'white sheep'), sounds and sound backgrounds, ease of use.

What we didn't like: no instructions (it took us some time to figure out how to remove a sticker from our scene). We would like to see an option to resize the stickers manually (now they are resized automatically when you move them 'further' or 'closer' in the scene). Prominent links to Twitter and Facebook (on the starting screen and in the 'share' menu).

Bottom line: great app for younger kids to play and learn, we realy liked it!

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