I’ve considered the monome to be a potential gold mine for Children and learning games. The main reason it the simplicity. Buttons you press, lights that light up. Doesn’t get much better than that.

Things like monogression with it’s simple progression and pattern learning games:

Monogressions (Pattern Progressions on a Monome) from Mike Cohen on Vimeo.

More traditional games like lights out or (blackout):

lights out on the monome 40h from joseph melnyk on Vimeo.

Throw in an accelerometer and you’ve got a whole new range of possibilities:

Tilty Snake from squidie on Vimeo.