this game is good for kids who need help with:

Planning

Developing a systematic approach for setting and achieving goals.

It's nearly impossible to succeed in Sprinkle without conceiving a strategy before starting to put out the fires. While players might be able to get away with it on the first few levels, theses stages are merely just a warm-up for the more intricate play that is to follow. When players begin to encounter boulders, concealed fires, and buttons to build bridges, they can no longer be so gratuitous with the amount of water they spray. Especially for easy-to-reach fires, players, should use a little water as possible. After taking care of the more accessible and immediate fires, players should use what is available on the map to create space and block crevices so that the water can easily access the fires that were once blocked by movable objects. It's often useful for players to think of Sprinkle as a series of steps. These steps should be nearly solidified before they begin fighting the fires. There is more than one way to beat each level, but each method requires a specific strategy. Often times, hasty players will rid the screen of objects that that need to put out fires, and ultimately wind up having to replay the level. Players should note that every object typically has a purpose. It is up to the player to fashion a plan the utilizes the object to access a hard to reach fire.

Flexibility

Adapting and adjusting to changing conditions and expectations, especially adapting to obstacles.

Because players are able to repeat levels, they have an opportunity to learn from their mistakes and make quick adjustments to their style of play. Especially since there are often alternate ways of putting out all the fires, players need to adapt to a new strategy if they knocked a boulder off stage that they had set out to use. In the event that a particular boulder or blockade is necessary to keep on stage, players can always restart the level, using a mistake to make learn how to succeed. Each new level presents new brushfires in maps that become increasingly difficult. Players must demonstrate the ability to meet these new challenges, and in turn, will acquire new sets of flexible thinking skills. Sometimes the solution is not immediately apparent. In stage 12 of level one, players encounter a balance. It takes a few rounds of trial and error to really get a sense of how to work the machine in their favor. Players must be willing to take risks, take the time to try new things, and learn from their mistakes if they want to beat the more difficult levels in Sprinkle.