Nick Jr Draw & Play
By Jinny Ree,
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App promotes creation with cool tools, favorite characters.
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great app for all ages!
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What’s It About?
Nick Jr Draw & Play begins with Dora the Explorer walking kids through the app's features and functionalities and instructing them how to tap and swipe. Kids select what type of material they’d like play on, then they are free to draw and play with their choice of instrument. Some of the tools offer special effects, such as magic wands for sparkling silver stars, swirling green leaves, flying black bats, etc. Kids can save their creations to an in-app gallery, where they can return to work on them later, or to the device's photo gallery.
Is It Any Good?
Nick Jr Draw & Play gives kids a fun and varied canvas on which to create art. The different drawing tools let kids experiment, and clever features like animated stickers and special effects add another dimension to kids' digital creations.
Nick Jr Draw & Play does have its limitations -- you can't mix colors, for example, and while Dora walks kids through the app's functionality, the app doesn't offer any instruction on art techniques like painting, drawing, or coloring. Still, kids who are Nick Jr. fans will surely enjoy expressing their creativity with favorite characters.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Supply kids with some of the tools that appear in the app. Have them compare and contrast what it's like to draw in crayon on paper and what it's like to draw in virtual crayon on your device.
Ask kids to walk you through their virtual gallery, telling you about the art they've created.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Kindle Fire
- Subjects: Arts: drawing, painting, playing
- Skills: Tech Skills: digital creation, using and applying technology, Creativity: imagination, making new creations
- Release date: May 31, 2012
- Category: Education
- Topics: Arts and Dance
- Publisher: MTV Networks
- Version: 1.0
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 4.0 or later
- Last updated: September 12, 2016
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