Saturday, June 7, 2008

Tux Paint - Open Source Paint Program for Young Children

Tux Paint has many features that are similar to those in Firefox -- even in Photoshop. Yet, this free program is simple enough to be handled by very young children.

In today's landscape with an ever-widening mulitmedia horizon, this is an excellent program--to help children become more technologically literate.

It is also good as an outlet for creativity.

The Text Tools and images can be combined, so that children can write and illustrate together.

Features, such as the Shapes Tool and the Stamp Tool could be used for teaching math.

The program can be downloaded, with or without the extra Stamp Software, at:

http://www.tuxpaint.org/


Both are free at this time.

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