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We were a little undecided whether to publish Tux Paint under the games category or under the software category and so we decided to put it both on one side and on the other. Why Tux Paint it is truly an excellent program dedicated to children that will allow them to have fun for a long time in front of the computer (or smartphone) creating and coloring images.
And we don't say it just to say it but from direct experience! The game is a sort of Paint dedicated to children which has also won several awards and received many positive reviews 1 over the course of these years. It is also used in several schools in all parts of the world as a computer drawing activity 2.
When you open the game for the first time you will immediately understand what we are talking about.
Tux Paint, a drawing program for children: the tools
You will find a drawn page in front of you and a series of tools on the left. We find:
- Drawing, for freehand drawing. With this tool you can use different types of brushes including brushes that automatically draw certain shapes such as cats, footprints, hearts, footprints, stars, balls, squares etc. Alternatively it can be used as a simple brush.
- Stamp, here you will find some images that you can use to insert directly into the design. On Android there seems to be many more stamps than those we found on Windows.
- Lines, with the possibility of using the brushes that we have seen with the difference that you will draw a line.
- Shapes, with this tool you can easily create shapes such as square, rectangle, circle, ellipse, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, rhombus and different types of star.
- Text, here you can easily add text by also changing fonts.
- Label, similar to text but you can also add a label.
- Fill it's the classic bucket to completely fill a part of the image.
- Magic, this tool used on pre-existing images allows you to make small magheggi such as dripping, turning edges into mosaic and many more.
- Cancel And Repeat, the classic button to cancel or redo the last operation performed.
- Eraser to cancel
- New to create a new sheet. When clicked you will be able to see that in addition to the classic single-color sheet, you will be able to choose some drawings to color/edit. One of the nice things is for example that you can create a new drawing and then save it as a template to find it right here.
- You open And Save, two options that allow you to open the work done and save the work you are doing. Once enough drawings have been saved, by pressing Open you will see that both "slide" and "template" will appear at the bottom left. Template, as we told you, is used to transform the drawing into a template and then find it again in New. Slide instead allows you to choose a number of sheets and show them as slides one after the other automatically.
- The last two Tools that we can find are Press and You go out.
Download the program for desktop or Android
We feel like we've said it all, now all you have to do is try it Tux Paint to a child, the suitable age should be 3-12 years old.
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