Sketch Pad

The Sketch Pad is an activity in JumpStart Spanish. The player learns the numbers from 1-10 in Spanish. Here, a male voice does the Spanish number words, and a female one does those in English.

Objective
Other than learning the Spanish words for the numbers, there is no objective for level 1.

For level 2, the player must select the correct number of items (item types, however, can be chosen freely). The player is to click on the mouse by the magic hat to see if he or she is right. Every time the correct number is selected, the announcer counts every item at a time. For every time an item is counted, that item acts in a certain way (like a playing card opens up and then a jester resembling Chris/Juan cackles) and jumps into the hat (except for a piece of cheese which briefly turns into a moon, and then jumps into the mouse's mouth, and he then rubs his tummy). Balloons, rags, and birds alternate in color and (if ever chosen) form certain ways (a yellow into a llama, a green into a swan, and so on). Rabbits alternate in bow tie size and react differently.

Once the correct number is selected, the player must move the (computer) mouse to move the hat and catch any objects (hopefully all ten) that fall off the shelf into it. Every time an object is caught, the mouse claps, and the announcer counts it to keep track of how many objects the player has caught.