Sky Whale helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Focus

Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

Sky Whale requires the player to be able to ignore internal and external distractions in order to stay focused on the task at hand: having the perfect timing on tapping the screen in order to eat the next donut or bounce off the next cloud or other object. If the player doesn't stay focused on the items closest to the narwhal, they will miss their intended target and use up a donut in the process. Success is entirely dependent on focus. Without it, the player is just a cute, cartoon narwhal flying through the sky aimlessly.

Self-control

Managing our actions, feelings, and behaviors.

With a game like Sky Whale, where the timing of the player's taps is so important, it is easy to get impulsive, jumpy, and even angry and frustrated. Instead of making this game one that should be avoided, it means, instead, that it provides the perfect chance for practicing the cognitive skills of self-control. To be successful in this game, the player must keep their emotions under control or they will find themselves tapping on the screen at the wrong time. This, in turn, will use up their donuts faster and land the narwhal back in the ocean.