Parents' Guide to Sago Mini Doodlecast

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Amanda Bindel By Amanda Bindel , based on child development research. How do we rate?

age 5+

Fun, versatile drawing tool lets kids tell their stories.

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Why Age 5+?

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What's It About?

Choosing a story-starting question, a partial drawing, or a blank screen, kids create a drawing while their voice is recorded. They can sing, narrate the story, or just chat. Kids can pause the recording, if necessary, as well as change colors and brushes or erase and start over. Recordings can be three minutes max. When finished, kids can save their work to the camera roll or upload it to YouTube (if parents have configured the account.)

Is It Any Good?

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The drawing tools are simple -- white background, nine color choices, and three brushstrokes -- but adequate for kids to draw for three minutes. The sound quality of the recording is good, even for soft-talking kids, but it does pick up background noise as well. The prompts range from thoughtful (What makes you sad?) to familiar (Who is in your family?) to funny (What is something stinky?) and will get kids thinking, drawing, and talking. The blank screen allows for endless options for expression. To share the movies, parents will have to enable YouTube access, as the three-minute movies are too big to email from the camera roll.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about storytelling. Encourage older kids to take their movies one step further and write out a story to go along with their narration and pictures.

  • Talk to your kids about expressing their feelings through art; ask them to draw what a certain feeling looks like.

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