I enjoy watching and even playing alongside my little one. I feel good knowing that she is playing imaginatively, practising her fine motor skills and learning ABCs, in an innovative way. ” Originally created for kids 6 and up, Osmo has recently expanded its product line to include kits and games suitable for preschoolers and kindergarteners, and so can be used by kids 3+ as well. Designed to cover the elementary school fundamentals of math, reading, creativity, geography, and coding, this Osmo kit throws in everything but the kitchen sink. Though it’s interactive apps Osmo does, however, offer a powerful focused skill-based learning in a variety of core areas for kids in its target age range (3-12).

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Founded in 2013, Osmo is a learning kit that blends hands-on play with digital games to create a unique augmented reality-based interactive learning experience for kids ages 3-11. These can be a welcome addition to families, particularly homeschoolers, looking to supplement specific at-home learning curricula with Osmo’s skill building activities. Focused around art (particularly drawing) and creative thinking, this kit includes the Osmo set, a digital drawing board, some erasable markers and 3 apps (Monster, Newton and Masterpiece) that help develop creativity and drawing skill, as well as some drawing-assisted physics in the case of Newton.A rather new and unique title in the Osmo series, this kit is designed around Osmo’s Math Wizard app series, an adventure/RPG series of educational math games that teach math up to grade 3. Designed for kids ages 3-5, the preschool starter kit takes the Little Genius Starter Kit, which itself is already designed for younger kids, and adds a digital drawing board and a variety of early childhood skill-building apps that work on shapes, counting, the alphabet, spelling and science.

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Designed for kids in grades 1-7, this kit includes the osmo set, a digital drawing board, number, letter and coding tiles and 15 apps that cover spelling, math, science, art and coding at a variety of difficulty levels which should take kids comfortably through to the beginning of middle school in terms of skill level. Osmo is a very modular system in that the heart of the system is the base, the reflector and your tablet. The rest, the manipulatives and digital apps, all work through those pieces of hardware. With its combination of digital apps and physical manipulatives, we think Osmo offers a uniquely interactive tactile-digital learning experience that can really give kids fun and engaging focused skill practice in a variety of core Pre-K to Elementary level subjects.

Math Wizard teaches addition, counting, place value, multiplication and mathematical thinking using interactive fantasy stories and game-like elements like creating potions out of specific item quantities, measuring dragons. The kit includes an Osmo set, rule books, game pieces, counting cubes, a unique placemat, unique game tokens and rulers. If you prefer kits that focus their learning material more specifically to age ranges and grade levels (elementary, kindergarten and preschool), Osmo has recently created starter kits that do so. Designed for kids ages 6-10, the Genius kit comes with the Osmo set and 5 games that cover spatial relationships, spelling, math, basic physics and drawing. With that said, there aren’t that many other educational augmented reality kits for young kids that provide a tactile-digital experience and cover such a wide range of subjects. Designed to hone the skills developed in kindergarten , this kit is very similar to the elementary school starter kit in that it includes the osmo set, a digital drawing board, number, letter and coding tiles and 11 apps that cover cover spelling, math, science, art and even basic coding (which is something a little more unique in the kindergarten education space).

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Whether it’s in completing puzzles, filling in answers, moving characters around, or digitally transforming their drawings into fun animations, the technology itself is quite impressive and worked quite reliably for us. So while Osmo has excellent compatibility with Apple devices, Samsung and other Android users will have to look elsewhere. How Osmo Works Designed for kids ages 5-10, the Explorer Starter Kit provides a fairly broad range of educational subjects. The basic Osmo set up involves a few pieces of hardware that work together to create an augmented reality experience for kids that is actually pretty impressive.Osmo’s play-based learning approach is also quite well implemented, which is no surprise given that the device was actually developed with the help of child development experts. Combines the base Little Genius and Genius sets, offering the Osmo set as well as all 9 basic games. Overall, a good option if you want a Genius set that grows with your child as it covers ages 3-10. Interestingly, these coding programs use physical squares that fit together like a puzzle to create different programming instructions that are then played out on screen. Like a physical version of Scratch coding, which is pretty cool.

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Designed for preschool kindergarten learners, the Little Genius kit contains the Osmo set and four games that cover topics such as learning the alphabet, pre-drawing art, puzzles and emotional/social development. And, to their credit, Osmo produces new content pretty frequently so there is usually something new coming out.As educators and parents we also like that Osmo has separated its starter kits based around different learning philosophies, with age- and skill-based kits providing ready options for parents, i.e. whether they prefer to take a skill-based vs grade-based teaching approach. Bottom Line: Being more tightly focused and, really, smaller kits, these tend to be a little more affordable than the other starter kits available and can be a good introduction to Osmo if you have a specific area you’d like your child to work on. Three of our free apps don't require any pieces to play and can be used with any Starter Kit: Masterpiece (for iPad and Fire), Newton (for iPadand Fire), and Projector (for iPad). Play experience for Masterpiece and Newton is improved with the use of the Monster game/Creative Set.