Indoor nature for the days you can't get out
Some weeks, getting your kid outside isn't going to happen. Rain for four days running. A temperature that won't shake. Winter dark by 4pm. The advice to "get them outside" is sound, until it isn't.
These games aren't a replacement for real mud and real weather. They're a supplement for the days when neither is on offer.
In Weather Window, your kid picks the weather and builds a scene outside a wooden window: rain, snow, sun, rainbow. In Egg Hatchery, they build a nest, warm eggs, and feed baby birds, ducks, penguins, or turtles. Both involve animal life cycles and weather causes that 2-to-6-year-olds are starting to think about anyway. The screen version gives them somewhere to play with those ideas indoors.
When the weather does turn and you do get out, bridging the screen play back to the real thing is what makes it stick. "What weather did you make yesterday? Look, it's actually doing that now."
What's here
Weather Window and Egg Hatchery, with more nature games to come.