Hobbies And Interests
Pet Spa
This game is suitable for kids as it focuses on grooming and caring for animals, and kids are often big animal lovers. Animal Planet offers "Pet Spa Challenge." The plot of the game is that all the pet spa&'s workers have called in sick and the player must provide services for all the animals. Players are presented with a dirty animal and a list of services the animal needs. Players then have to drag tools such as soapy sponge or a pair of scissors over the animal in a particular order, now and then giving the animal a treat to facilitate the process. Players need to do this quickly in order to get a high score. When finished, the game evaluates the child&'s performance in the pet spa and gives the player an opportunity to try again.
Sara&'s Super Spa
If kids visit the website Shockwave.com, and go to Sara&'s Super Spa, they learn they must manage a spa on their own by multi-tasking services for clients as they walk in the door. Once a client walks in the door, the child must use the mouse to drag that client over to the appropriate area of the spa for the designated service the person wants and then perform that service quickly. For example, if a client wants her hair curled, the player must drag her over to a chair in the hair salon section of the spa and then drag each individual lock of hair within a designated frame of time. If the player runs out of time, she doesn&'t get paid. If the player doesn&'t do exactly what the client asks for, she doesn&'t get paid. For example, if the client wants his beard trimmed and the player shaves it, you lose money. All in all, the game teaches kids to follow directions carefully, to multi-task and to work quickly.
Sally&'s Spa
Sally&'s Spa is a more sophisticated game for computers that forces players to see running a spa as a competitive business where they must commit themselves to the needs of their customers, regardless of how demanding. Players start by choosing a location of their spa out of 10 possible locations in the world. This game has 50 levels of increasing difficulty and allows the player to perform a range of services for customers from massages to facials. There are 12 original customer types, from brides on their wedding day to hard-to-please fashionistas. In order to score the maximum number of points and go to the next level, players must manage their time wisely and perform tasks efficiently and with urgency. You can download this game to your computer for a fee.