Color & Draw for Kids
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This open-ended drawing program gives you the best of both worlds -- free one finger scribbling on a blank screen, or coloring on one of 50 traditional-looking coloring book pages. Color & Draw (the icon reads "Color&Draw" with no spaces) has some noteworthy features that let you customize it for your child. There's a clean color palette with 20 common colors,12 stickers and eight pen sizes. You can also toggle on/off voice instructions, and it is easy to save work, continue works in progress which are presented in the startup menu, or import pictures from your photo library. Missing is a fill option, and the sticker library is limited. In addition, once a sticker is placed, it can't be drawn over. The only way to get rid of your stickers is to erase them en mass, by shaking the screen, a clumsy process for a young child and large-sized iPad. This type of one-way, can't undo design introduced in an open-ended program can be a problem -- hopefully this will be fixed in future versions, because this is one of the best coloring programs currently on the iPad.
$0.99, iPad
Teaches: art, creativity, drawing, fine motor development
CTR Rating: 88%