Touch Balloons!


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Fun for all ages!

Develop hand-eye coordination skills by popping balloons as they float past. Use the mouse, touch monitor or switch to target and burst the balloons. Choose a large pointer or a cross-hair to aim.

An extensive menu allows you to choose direction of travel

Up
Down
Left
Right
or a real challenge . . . random!

For the real expert you can also change the speed of travel and the number of balloons. Setup options allow you to change the degree of accuracy needed to burst balloons.

Additional options change the background. You can choose from a range of colours and sky effects or use your own pictures - have the balloons float across a picture of the school.

The program has bold or pastel colour choices to allow you to design activities to develop visual and tracking skills.

Two switch users can use one switch to pop balloons, and the second to create new ones. (Switch access is via the Space and Enter keys, or the left and right mouse buttons).

Touch Balloons is targeted at the following age ranges:

All Ages

Touch Balloons is designed to foster development in the areas of :

Switch use
Cause-and-effect
Switch timing
Choosing with a switch

Users can access Touch Balloons in the following ways:

Mouse/ Headmouse/ Trackball
Touch monitor
Single Switch or two switches

System

Windows 95, 98, ME, XP.

Other Information

Read A Review of this software here