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Highlights Shapes – Shape Sorting & Color Mixing on Windows Pc

Developed By: Highlights for Children, Inc.

License: Free

Rating: 4,0/5 - 473 votes

Last Updated: April 16, 2024

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

Game Details

Version 1.3.13
Size 65.4 MB
Release Date December 22, 20
Category Educational Games

Game Permissions:
Allows applications to open network sockets. [see more (6)]

What's New:
Minor improvements [see more]

Description from Developer:
Accompanied by a friendly fox - and other animal buddies along the way - young children will learn and practice matching, sorting, mixing and categorizing shapes and colors through... [read more]

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About this game

On this page you can download Highlights Shapes – Shape Sorting & Color Mixing and play on Windows PC. Highlights Shapes – Shape Sorting & Color Mixing is free Educational game, developed by Highlights for Children, Inc.. Latest version of Highlights Shapes – Shape Sorting & Color Mixing is 1.3.13, was released on 2020-12-22 (updated on 2024-04-16). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 100,000. Overall rating of Highlights Shapes – Shape Sorting & Color Mixing is 4,0. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This game had been rated by 473 users, 66 users had rated it 5*, 307 users had rated it 1*.

How to play Highlights Shapes – Shape Sorting & Color Mixing on Windows?

Instruction on how to play Highlights Shapes – Shape Sorting & Color Mixing on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install Highlights Shapes – Shape Sorting & Color Mixing on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this game on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Step By Step Guide To Play Highlights Shapes – Shape Sorting & Color Mixing using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "Highlights Shapes – Shape Sorting & Color Mixing" icon on the home screen to start playing, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to play Highlights Shapes – Shape Sorting & Color Mixing on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "Highlights Shapes – Shape Sorting & Color Mixing" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Accompanied by a friendly fox - and other animal buddies along the way - young children will learn and practice matching, sorting, mixing and categorizing shapes and colors through imaginative activity-filled worlds. Visit an ancient jungle, the magical deep sea, mysterious outer space — even a wild savanna safari! The puzzle games are woven into engaging stories, and the games increase in challenge as your preschool aged child plays.


Kids will benefit from:
- Development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Curiosity as they explore new worlds of shapes, colors, and color mixing
- Learning to make predictions and understanding outcomes by discovering how primary colors mix together to form secondary colors
- Confidence as they make decisions and advance to new levels
- Learning key preschool and math skills like matching, sorting and classifying by shapes and colors
- Identifying and naming 11 shapes from circles to octagons, 11 primary and secondary colors and color mixing
- Development of fine motor skills
- Security of an ad-free environment

Features:
- 6 progressing levels of challenge:
- FREE Ancient Jungle Puzzle Pack – 4 shapes + 8 colors
- Magical Underwater Puzzle Pack – 8 shapes + 11 colors
- Mysterious Space Puzzle Pack – 11 shapes + 11 colors
- NEW Jurassic Journey Puzzle Pack –Introduce color mixing!
- NEW Savanna Safari Puzzle Pack – Expand on color mixing with even more colors!
- Optional FREE Sweet Arctic Puzzle Pack
- Hilarious surprises and delights to engage preschool children along the way
- Track progress, skip and replay functions
- 3 language options (US English, UK English, Spanish)

This app is fun, creative, confidence building and developmentally appropriate — brought to you by the early childhood experts at Highlights and the Italian creative studio Colto.

Highlights Shapes for kids ages 2+ is an ideal first app and is easy for young children to play on their own. It’s playable in English (US + UK) and Spanish.

MORE ABOUT HIGHLIGHTS SHAPES

PREPARES CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL
As children progress through Highlights Shapes, they’ll develop creative thinking and essential problem-solving skills, both critical for the start of formal schooling.

PROMOTES FUN, MEANINGFUL LEARNING
Highlights Shapes combines geometric, sorting and matching skills that are crucial for preschool-aged children to grasp, with the fun of an engaging, age-appropriate game. Children will learn valuable math and vocabulary skills all while having a blast traveling through new and exciting worlds!

PROMOTES CONFIDENCE AND CREATIVITY
In this game, children will foster confidence, creativity and curiosity as they make decisions! They’ll build colorful geometric scenes, learn how colors mix to form other colors, and explore three exciting environments.

DEVELOPS FINE MOTOR SKILLS
As children touch and drag each colorful shape, they’ll develop their fine motor skills.

INCREASES VOCABULARY
As they correctly match and sort each object, children will hear their shapes and colors repeated aloud, helping them learn new words and increase their existing vocabularies.

ABOUT US

Highlights for Children
Founded by educators Dr. Garry and Caroline Myers in 1946, Highlights was built on the belief that “Children Are the World’s Most Important People™.” Today, 70 years later, every “Fun with a Purpose™” product is still designed to help children become their best selves: creative, curious, caring and confident.
Minor improvements
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.