How it works

The game Monster Zoo helps children to develop their fine motor skills in a playful and engaging way. It focuses on the first basic shapes and movements necessary to learn how to write. These movements will be most useful later on when they begin to write actual letters. Training these motor skills requires time on task, which basically means repeating the movements over and over again in order to imprint them into the brain of the child.

Monster Zoo transforms traditional writing lessons into a playful and educational game. A game that combines the challenge, feedback and fun of games with an adaptive teaching method. In order to motivate children to train as long as possible, we have created a virtual zoo with different kinds of monsters. The players need to take care of the monsters by carrying out several fine motor tasks. For example, one of the monsters needs perfect eyelashes to be able to see properly. The player needs to comb the eyelashes by writing forward curves up and down using a stylus. The focus of this exercise is to write increasingly accurate curves.

In the parents section of the Monster Zoo, you can check in on the progress of your child at any time. It will show you what tasks have been completed and which ones they’re finding more tricky.