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Shape Town
Bea the beaver is building a town, and every house, rocket and gazebo is made of shapes. Your child drags the pieces into place, and along the way learns to name shapes, count their sides and corners, and spot the cones and cylinders hiding in everyday things.
What your child learns
Shape Town follows the geometry kids meet in preschool, kindergarten and first grade:
- Naming flat shapes. Circle, oval, triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, pentagon, hexagon, plus a star and a heart.
- Sides and corners. Some requests skip the name and ask for "the shape with 5 corners". The first time a shape is found this way, your child taps each corner while Bea counts out loud.
- Same shape, different look. Shapes come in different sizes, and on the older setting some arrive turned sideways.
- Putting shapes together. Two triangles make a square, three rhombuses make a hexagon, four little triangles make a big one.
- 3D shapes in real life. Cube, sphere, cone and cylinder, matched to things like dice, an orange, a party hat and a soup can.
How it works
Tap Play and the next building opens with its outline drawn on a blue blueprint. Shape pieces with little faces wait in a tray. Your child drags a piece onto the board, or taps a piece and then taps where it goes. Every prompt is read aloud, and the speaker button says it again.
There are 15 buildings in five neighborhoods, and each one teaches a step up from the last:
| Neighborhood | What your child does |
|---|---|
| Shape Street | Match each piece to its dashed outline (House, Pine Tree, Car) |
| Name Avenue | Bea asks for a shape by name: "Find the oval!" |
| Corner Lane | Bea asks by sides or corners, and the first find of each shape turns into a corner count |
| Puzzle Park | Fill a big shape with smaller ones, pattern block style |
| Town Center | Two 3D shape rounds, then a Town Hall that mixes names and corner counts |
A building takes a minute or two. When it's done, a new shape friend moves in and walks along the town street on the home screen, so the town fills up as your child learns.
Levels and how it adapts
Shape Town keeps track of which shapes your child knows and asks about the shakier ones more often. When a piece is wrong it slides back to the tray and Bea explains: "That's a pentagon. This spot has 4 corners." After a second miss the right piece glows, and on the matching levels a see-through copy floats over to show where it goes. In the name and corner rounds, a third miss means Bea places the shape herself and says why. There are no timers, no lives and no game over.
The title screen has two settings. Ages 4-5 keeps every shape upright, with few or no extra pieces in the tray. Ages 6-7 turns some pieces so your child taps to rotate them (after two tries Bea turns it for them), adds look-alike extras like a square next to a rectangle, and opens the first six buildings right away.
Stars work the same everywhere: no mistakes earns 3 stars, one or two mistakes earns 2, and anything else earns 1.
Stickers and the daily challenge
Stickers go into the Sticker Book shared by all our learning games. Your child earns one for the very first build, one for finishing each neighborhood, one now and then for perfect builds, and one for Today: three builds that are the same for everyone that day, scored out of 9 stars, with a streak flame for days in a row.
Tips for grown-ups
- Go on a shape hunt at home. A clock is a circle, a door is a rectangle, a can of beans is a cylinder.
- Ask "How do you know it's a triangle?" and count the corners together with a finger, the same way Bea does.
- Talk about why a square is a special rectangle: all 4 sides are the same length.
- Cut a paper square corner to corner. Can two triangles make it again? Try the same with real pattern blocks if you have them.
Privacy and safety
Shape Town has no ads, no accounts, no chat and no tracking. Nobody types a name. Stars, stickers and the town your child builds are saved only on your device, and the only links lead to our other learning games and the Sticker Book.
Questions
What age is Shape Town for?
Ages 4 to 7. The Ages 4-5 setting suits preschool and kindergarten. The Ages 6-7 setting adds turned shapes and look-alike pieces for kindergarten and first grade.
Does my child need to read to play?
No. Every request is spoken, pieces are picked by dragging or tapping, and the speaker button repeats the question as often as needed.
Is a square a rectangle?
Yes. A rectangle has 4 sides and 4 square corners, and a square has all that plus 4 equal sides. If Bea asks for the rectangle and your child picks the square, she says a square is a special kind of rectangle and asks for the other one. It doesn't count as a mistake.
Is Shape Town free?
Yes. It's free in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer, with no download, no ads and no in-app purchases.
