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Parenting magazine The Best Computer Games "Players assemble any mixture of animal they can imagine from the heads, bodies, legs, and tails of 140 vividly lifelike onscreen critters. Beyond its sidesplitting humor, this dazzling game of mix and match teaches children accurate info about animals and lets them make up names and bios for their surreal menagerie. Looking for a Grandparents Day gift? Print pictures of and stories about your kids' wildest creations." - Anne Reeks, Parenting magazine |
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USA Today "You can't have this kind of fun at a regular zoo. (If you try this at your neighborhood zoo, we sincerely hope you get kicked out. Or chewed up.) Save your head, tail and torso-tossing exploits for switchzoo.com. Choose a base beast of the cheetah, dog, elephant, monkey, pig, rhino, zebra, bear or bison persuasion, and create the rest of the beast from your own zany imagination. Print your favorite mammal for friends to see – or laugh at – and get fun animal facts along the way." |
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The Exploratorium "Create crazy animals that could never exist at this surrealistic virtual zoo!" The Exploratorium is a hands-on museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco. |
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Technology & Learning Magazine "If the zebrachee and lofadog aren't on
your list of intriguing
animals, pay a virtual visit to the Switcheroo Zoo...
Educational Resources includes links to sites that offer in-depth
information about the animals in the zoo, as well as interdisciplinary
lesson plans and other teaching tools. Your students will be
inspired to pen ditties like those included in the amusing collection
of student-authored odes to their animal creations in Seven
Poems and a Story." |
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Power to Learn "It's fascinating, factual, and fun... A fascinating new piece of software called Switch Zoo... from the folks at Tubehead has taken an old kid favorite – mixing and matching animal heads, bodies and tails – to a most creative and truly giddy height through the magic of computer morphing. Using it, kids can literally pick and choose from hundreds of animal heads, bodies and tails to fashion together the critter they’ve always dreamed about... It’s a simple concept, but it’s amazing how it gets kids thinking about diversity, adaptation, and species specialization." - Diane S. Kendall, Power to Learn |
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BBC Click "Finally, a little bit of random fun where you get to play creator, and design your own very weird and wonderful creatures..." - Kate Russell, Click Webscape-r, BBC |
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CTV.ca Canadian Television Network "SwitchZoo gives users of all ages the fun of creating their own silly animal combinations while learning cool facts about the creatures they pick. Popular amongst teachers and animal lovers, the site's New York based creators have expanded with a number of fun games and activities that are just as much fun as the main concept..." - Kris Abel, CTV.ca |
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Common Sense Media "Outstanding interactivity with an animal theme... Families who visit this website will be able to talk about animals and their habitats, make up funny names for the combined fantasy animals, and write captions for the pictures... At first you might think this is a simple “head of a bear, legs of a giraffe, tail of a crocodile” mix ‘n’ match game. It is, but there is more depth to it than that, as you’ll see..." |
Customer Reviews
from Amazon
Love!
I love this and so do my kids! What a great idea!!
Let your imagination run wild!
This is a fun game, you can come up with most bizarre creatures you can think of, i enjoyed it.
Fun & Giggles
Kids love this sort of thing. Easy to use. Lots of choices to change the animals. Good for the imagination. Induces lots of giggles.
Intriguing
My autistic son spends hours on this game making different animals and finds it extremely entertaining (and funny!) It's a pretty simple program to use and helps build imagination skills. I would recommend this product for any child that loves animals.
Sure way to get the laughter started...
Nice graphics and entertaining for young children; my 5 year old nephew loves the seemingly never-ending combination of animal body parts. You transpose this to that and there is no telling what wildly designed animal you will end up with. He is easily distracted at this age, but this app keeps him focused each time he plays.
Grandkids love it!
The grandkids love this program! I started out with the free version, which was nice to see if they liked it before I spent money on it. They liked it so much that I purchased the full version. My grandkids are 6 and 4 and they both enjoy it quite a bit. They kept getting excited at the silly combinations they come up with. I enjoyed watching their excitement. It was pretty easy for them to figure out how to use the program and they were able to easily navigate through it to get to different animals. Kudos to Switch Zoo!
Very cool for the little ones.
My daughter loves it, and I love how it has the factual information about the creatures. Off the free version she has made some adorably cute and terribly hideous creations. I intend to upgrade to the full version, and would definitely recommend this.
Appeals to the litteliest kids
My 6 year old autistic computer wiz, loves this program. He laughs and laughs and it lightens his mood when he is frustrated.
My Daughter LOVES this Game!
We stumbled across Switchzoo by searching for "imaginary animals" on the Web. My 8 year old daughter was so smitten with the free version that she begged me to upgrade. I complied and do not regret it - money very well spent. She spends a lot of time creating and writing about her animals. This is a girl who loathes writing assignments in school, yet she has written the equivalent to a book about her Switchzoo creations. Also, it has piqued her interest in other issues. Something in Switchzoo led her to do considerable research on Red Pandas and how they are endangered. We are now raising money via a change jar to send in to the Red Panda preservation society. So I highly recommend Switchzoo - it is fun that sparks the imagination, heart, and mind.