Learning games for 4 to 7 year olds
Tadpole Games is a set of calm little games for children aged 4 to 7, built around what they are taught at school. There is phonics and spelling (Fredle, Tick or Fix, Spelldle, ABC Gap, Spell Duel), numbers (Sumdle, Number Words, Times Tables), telling the time, and games that name the flags, dogs, cats, dinosaurs and flowers a child is curious about. Older brothers and sisters are covered too: the spelling ladder runs up to the Year 5 and 6 word lists.
They are built to be fun first. Your child wins a star when it clicks, the game steps up a little when it does and eases back when it does not, so it stays winnable without ever being dull. There are no ads, no adverts for other games, and no streaks to keep up with, and every game is free to play each day.
What is in the games
What it costs
Every game is free to play each day, with no account needed: nine goes a day, shared across all of them, and a go is only spent when your child gets an answer right, so a wrong try never costs anything. Once the nine are gone the games wait until tomorrow, or Premium takes the limit off. It starts with 7 days free, then costs £2.99 a month, or £19.99 a year (which works out at £1.67 a month), and it can be cancelled whenever you like. Colour It and Draw It are the exception: those two need Premium.
About Us
I’m Pete and I’m a dad of five-year-old twins. As a developer by trade, I built these games because I wanted a fun way to support what my two were learning at school, so we could practise together at home. I noticed that my girls were always curious about the games I’d play on my phone like Squaredle and Wordle and realised that they wanted versions of their own.
I started with Fredle, which follows the phonics framework from their school to help them find words and sounds that they are learning. My girls soon wanted more, so we now have games for maths, languages, geography and more. With a range of games on different topics, you may also find yourself wanting to play them alongside your little ones (we do!).
Matched to your child’s school year
Set the school year once and every game keeps its words at that level. What each year actually covers — the sounds, the patterns, the word endings — is written out year by year in the curriculum guide, including Reception, Kindergarten and Year 1. Which words land at which level, and what keeps an unsuitable one out, is set out in how the words are chosen.
On iPhone, iPad and Android
Every game here is also in the Tadpole Games app, which plays offline once it is installed, so car journeys and waiting rooms are covered. Get the app, or keep playing in this browser. Premium carries across both, on the account the subscription creates.