Toca Kitchen Monsters Download
Sixta Strissel
Kids can learn about food preparation and cooking and about differences in what types of food people (and monsters!) prefer to eat. By selecting which foods to prepare and how to prepare the foods, kids are empowered to explore the kitchen, heating and chopping with abandon. Like most Toca toys, Monsters encourages play over achievement. Toca Kitchen Monsters is a simple but silly kitchen toy that helps young kids learn basic kitchen concepts -- while getting to play with their food!
A brief tutorial in the For Parents section explains gameplay. Instructions for kids come occasionally as visual and audio cues, such as following the direction of the monsters' eyes, or observing differences in their reactions to different foods. Mostly, kids learn to play by trial and error. With only two monsters and eight food choices, the game is fairly simple.
Parents need to know that Toca Kitchen Monsters is a free, lite version of Toca Kitchen, a digital cooking toy. Two monsters enjoy eight foods prepared in various ways, including a wacky, imaginative vegetable that reveals stripes or spots depending on how you heat it. What the monsters lack in table manners and cleanliness they make up for with silly and satisfying noises. Kids unfamiliar with Toca Kitchen may need help from parents to understand gameplay.
Kids first select one of two silly monsters, then open the fridge to select one of eight food items. Vegetarian-conscious parents can adjust the settings to remove any meat. Kids can then try to feed the character the food raw, or prepare it with a knife, food processor, pot of water, frying pan, or microwave. As can be seen in this trailer, the food changes in response to the preparation; for example, being sliced, ground up, or browned. Characters either munch on the food and smile, stick out their tongues in disgust, or reject the food altogether. Occasionally a thought bubble appears to suggest how to prepare the food to a character's liking.
Toca Kitchen Monsters is clearly just a fun and silly spin-off of Toca Kitchen, and its monsters are surprisingly endearing. As a bonus to Toca Kitchen, Monsters is fairly satisfying, since the messy kitchen and new vegetable will stand out to kids as different. Kids new to the series may be left wanting more, though -- as in, they'll want you to buy the regular app. Still, it's a good (free!) way to see how your kid responds to a digital toy with few instructions, versus a game with clear objectives and rules.
This is another app that is ideal for Foundation Stage and playing it together generates lots of talk about food and taste. Each monster has a cupboard full of food items. These can be chopped, fried, blended or microwaved before offering to the monsters. Though be aware that they do not always eat what they are given and will reject food.
Toca Kitchen 2 is more of a toy for children than a game for mobile devices to use. The only objective in this game is to experiment with food. What happens if you fry a carrot? Will our guests like the lettuce and onion smoothie? Let the little chefs get into the kitchen and discover the curious reactions of the three diners.
Experiment with ingredients in a full kitchen
In this game there are no rules, there is no stress. Here you can cook whatever you want with a lot of ingredients. Thus, in the fridge you can find, among other products, strawberries, onions, chicken, third, spaghetti, rice, octopus legs, watermelons, fish... In addition, you also have different seasonings, such as soy sauce, ketchup, mayonnaise, pepper and Salt. Choose the items you want, then swipe left to open the kitchen. Here you will find a lot of cooking utensils, such as:
Now you can! In this Monster edition of the super-hit Toca Kitchen you can cook and play with food for two hungry monsters. Pick any ingredient and prepare it in your own way! Slice, boil, fry, cook, microwave or mix? And wait for the response from the hungry monster...
FEATURES
- 2 cool monsters - each with their own favorite food!
- 8 different ingredients that can be prepared in many different ways!
- Season the food - but watch out if you do it too much...
- Slice, boil, fry, cook, microwave or mix any of the ingredients
- Optional vegetarian mode!
- Fantastic original artwork!
- No rules or stress - play any way your kids want to!
- Kid-friendly interface!
- No third-party advertising
- No in-app purchases
After food selections are made, one can choose to feed these choices raw to their creature, either whole or cut into pieces, as well as using other kitchenware to prepare these foods such as food processor, pot for boiling, pan for frying and microwave.
One can also see here that these monsters are not great housekeepers as all the kitchen tools seen here are also in need of a good wipe-down, as are the walls and other surfaces such as stovetop or microwave. This kitchen is pretty much a disaster - elements that I really enjoy - with many messy details to discover, which really adds to my monster-feeding experience.
This is no generic little monster; this reminds me of my little monster, especially when he was younger and trying foods for the first time, and yes, in the throes of taking care of a sometimes high-needs baby, our kitchen could use a good wipe-down from time to time as well. This is the reason that I am so smitten with the fun dirty details found within this charming application.
Keeping this book in mind, I see the monsters from Toca Kitchen Monsters as children with monster-like table manners that I as well as most parents can relate to on many levels. From this point of view, I am smitten by all the antics and messy details found within, confounded by the fact that my son is growing up and has developed better eating habits. I can now look back fondly at this time in his life as he is no longer exhibits such messy behavior, but I can understand parents being concerned that very young children may in fact emulate the raspberry-blowing and food spitting of these monsters - not much of an issue for children in preschool or beyond, I would hope.
I am enjoying the new salt and pepper and extra cutting abilities found in Toca Monster Kitchen and the recent update to Toca Kitchen. The biggest change I would love to see included within these apps is the ability to cook or in other ways combine different foods together, although being able to place foods together on the plate to feed these monsters is always nice.
A second possibility is that the increased efficiency stems from an age-related shift in priorities. For example, older children may be more motivated to explore for the purpose of understanding the causal relationships in the scene, or perhaps some shift in social motivation like finding options that please the monsters. While this is a theoretical possibility, we believe this to be less likely. Nothing in our data suggests that younger children are less interested in the causal structure of the set-up. If we did, we might expect that they would engage in feeding the monster less, perhaps favouring just exploring the food options and preparation methods themselves, which we do not. Further, and more convincingly, existing studies suggest that even very young children can disambiguate causal relationships and that their drive to do so motivates exploration (e.g. [38,47,50,55,58]). Likewise, even toddlers much younger than the children tested here exhibit the ability to represent what other agents want and a desire to accommodate them accordingly [76], suggesting that children in our age range would all be motivated to appease the monster and, perhaps to some degree, the experimenter who introduced the touchscreen toy.
When the Mom It Forward Network asked me to review the new Toca Kitchen 2 App with my four year old , I jumped at the opportunity! Owen loves the Toca Boca games and loves helping me in the kitchen, so I knew Toca Kitchen 2 would be a great one for him to play! The app is all about allowing kids to have freedom in the kitchen and having fun with food!
After letting him be creative in Toca Kitchen 2 for several days, he got to be creative in OUR kitchen. I told Owen he could make anything he wanted and of course he chose cookies! The kid is a cookie monster, just like his mama. Owen said he wanted to make Kit Kat Cookies with whipped cream and sprinkles on top ?
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