Common Sense Media Review
By Dana Anderson
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Cool app teaches even young kids how to sketch.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 6+?
Any Positive Content?
Where to Download
Videos and Photos
How to Draw-Full Version
What's It About?
How to Draw-Full Version includes fun "episodes" that kids can choose from to learn to draw specific objects or animals, such as a hippo, cat, or the Statue of Liberty. After choosing one lesson, a voice instructs kids how to draw a specific line segment that appears on the screen concurrently with the voice instruction. Once kids complete the drawing, the computer-generated lines disappear, leaving their own drawing to tweak, color, save, or email.
Is It Any Good?
HOW TO DRAW can be a real confidence builder for budding artists of all ages. The adorable drawings the app teaches users to sketch look like they may be too complicated for younger kids to learn, but the bit-by-bit instructions make these drawing lessons accessible to kids as young as kindergarten -- maybe even younger, if your kid has a natural affinity for drawing. What fun for a young child to send a completed drawing via email (with a parent's help, of course) to a relative or teacher and say, "I drew that space shuttle!" And have it really look like a space shuttle. Highly recommended.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Help your kid email his or her favorite drawing to a relative or art teacher.
Talk about some of the descriptive words kids hear in app. Why is it helpful to use words like "wavy," "curved," or "arc and bracket" when explaining a line?
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Subjects : Language & Reading : following directions , vocabulary , Arts : drawing , Math : shapes
- Skills : Self-Direction : self-assessment , Thinking & Reasoning : part-whole relationships
- Pricing structure :
- Release date : July 2, 2011
- Genre : Education
- Publisher : Mind the Kids Ltd
- Version : 1.0.1
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.0 or later
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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