Trace Shapes is a first tracing game for little hands, with a friendly platypus beside a painting easel. Put your finger on the green numbered dot and follow the dotted line and the little arrows, and the shape is painted in bright colour. Then the magic happens: every finished shape comes alive. A line grows into a flower, a wave fills with sea and a fish jumps out, a circle becomes a smiling sun, a triangle becomes the sail of a boat and a heart floats away as a balloon. Children start with straight lines, then corners and zigzags, waves and loops, and finally circles, squares, triangles, stars and hearts. The path is wide and forgiving, and going off the line costs nothing. Every stage visits a new place and wins a new hat for Platypus.