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Tickety Toc: Card Maker Time!
By Amanda Bindel,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Cute app lets kids email postcards to friends and family.
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What’s It About?
Kids start by choosing a pack, each featuring characters from the show. Then they color it or use an already-colored character for their card. When coloring, kids choose from chalk, crayons, or paints and select their color choices to magically color their character (no going out of the lines). They can add a background, border, stickers, stamps, and custom or prewritten messages and top it all off with glitter before addressing and stamping the card and mailing it, either by saving it to the camera roll or emailing it with a parent's help.
Is It Any Good?
TICKETY TOC: CARD MAKER TIME! is easy to use. Kids have a lot of options to add to the limited space on each card, so the finished product can get a bit busy. The app stresses process over product, but any aunt or grandparent who receives an emailed card will be delighted with it. The addressing and mailing process isn't representative of what's required by the postal service, so parents may want to walk kids through actually mailing a letter or card and the details needed on an envelope. It'd be nice to have more custom options, such as drawing your own pictures to include on the card. Still, kids will have lots of mess-free fun creating and emailing cards.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about different occasions for sending cards and encourage kids to make a card for a loved one.
Take the time to make a real card on paper, and show kids how to properly address and stamp the envelope. Then mail it together.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android , Kindle Fire
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Release date: May 15, 2014
- Category: Entertainment
- Topics: Friendship , Trains
- Publisher: Cupcake Digital
- Version: 1.0
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 4.3 or later; Android 2.2 and up
- Last updated: July 12, 2020
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