Tiny Robot Maker
By Amanda Bindel,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Cool card-creating activity boosts basic robot maker.
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What’s It About?
Kids start by choosing their robot base from a triangle, a rectangle, a cylinder, or an oval. Then they can change the color of the base, add a head, body decoration, arms, legs, facial features, and antennae. Once kids have completed the robot, they hit the check to save it to the robot gallery. From the gallery, they can create full-color or outlined coloring pages, note cards, party invitations, and birthday cards. These creations are saved to the device's camera roll and can be printed from there.
Is It Any Good?
It's easy to miss the card-printing feature and get caught up in the fun of designing robots. From that perspective alone, TINY ROBOT MAKER is pretty limited. The robots are easy to make, but creating them is very formulaic. Arms go in one place only. Same goes for the legs and other parts. Every part of the robot has to be added for the robot to be saved to the gallery and then to be printed. Creating cards or coloring pages from kids' creations is a really cool extension that changes the whole purpose of the app. Again, there aren't many customization options, such as adding names or personalized messages, but it's fun for kids to see something they created (even if they didn't get to be very creative in making it) in print.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about kids' robot creations. Do their robots have names? What are they like: good or evil?
Let kids create robots from recycled materials, including shoe boxes, aluminum foil, and paper towel and toilet paper rolls -- anything they can find.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
- Subjects: Arts: drawing
- Skills: Creativity: making new creations, Communication: multiple forms of expression
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Release date: July 12, 2014
- Category: Education
- Topics: Robots
- Publisher: Tiny Twiga Studios
- Version: 1.5
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 5.1 or later
- Last updated: August 16, 2016
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