How2Day: Disney Games for a Four-Year-Old

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The relationship between Mickey Mouse and Nintendo goes back to October 9, 1981, when Disney's first video game for children, Mickey Mouse, was released. It had a pretty simple premise; a black and white MIckey Mouse tried to catch eggs that his hens were laying. In 1982, Disney and Atari attempted to make a video game as part of Atari's line of young children's games. It was to be based on the movie "Snow White," but the game was never completed.

The Walt Disney company now creates numerous educational and entertaining games for four-year-old children. Most Disney games help young kids practice skills that can help them throughout life; they learn listening, logic, counting, reasoning, matching, telling time, phonics help and keyboard instruction. Disney designs games that entertain both boys and girls.

Disney offers Fairies Magic Flower Garden Game, where the goal of the game is to be the first fairy to water any flower with three water droplets and make it bloom. Disney also offers classic board games in a theme-styled tub, such as Toy Story 3 Alien Tub Full of Games and Disney Cars Tub Full of Games. Both include six fun games: checkers, tic-tac-toe, bingo, dominoes, go fish and crazy eight card games.

Four-year-old kids will enjoy creating a personal fairy and flying to different areas, looking for the rare lily, in Disney's Rainbow Tinkerbell and the Fairy Rescue Nintendo DS game. Other titles specifically designed for four-year-old kids include: The Princess and the Frog, Stitch Jam, Club Penguin Elite, Disney Friends, Princess: Magic Jewels, Up and Disney Fairies Tinkerbell Game.

Playhouse Disney offers numerous free gaming experiences for four-year-old children. These games include Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Handy Manny, Imagination Movers, Jungle Junction and Little Einsteins. After clicking on the desired title, three to six games pop up for kids to choose and play. Incorporating skills--such as matching, opposites, addition, creating music or keyboard learning--makes all of the games suitable for four-year-old children.

From the Stanley cartoon series seen on Disney Playhouse, Disney created a more in-depth learning adventure for the PC called Stanley Tiger Tales, where the youngest children can enjoy exploring and discovering new animals gaining math and logic skills. Most other Disney PC games specify the age requirement of children five and older.

Leapster and LeapFrog are two devices that play games interchangeably when titles are noted as LeapFrog/Leapster. LeapFrog Disney games include Car Zippity and Disney Princess Zippity; both games allow four-year-old kids to explore creatively while learning mathematics.

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