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The Apps That Makes Us Creative
Holiday is here, we have all the time to get busy with gadget. But do we know the best creative applications appropriate for kids of our age, Superkids?
SquiggleFish
An inhabitant digital fish tank, ready to host. It’s our job to draw and give colors to the fishes and friends using real pencil on real sheet of paper. The result is scanned to make the fishes swims inside the fish tank. Let’s see how many underwater animal we can make?
Night Zookeeper Teleporting Torch
Still about drawing things, but with touch screen. It’s not on fish tank now, but in the zoo filled with magic creatures. Our mission here is to draw, or get challenged to make the most magical creature we can imagine on the paper. For example, ‘hareplane’. What is hareplane? That is.. the fastest animal of Night Zoo, ready to send any animal around flying.
Toy Story: Story Theater
Disney’s latest official Toy Story app turns the tables and puts kids in charge of the storytelling. They choose a setting, characters, props and actions to create a tale, while recording their own voice narration to be played back afterwards. Buzz, Woody and Jessie are all present and correct, among other characters.
Drawnimal
This is an absolutely fab idea, getting children to draw the outer bits of animals (legs, ears, whiskers and so on) around their iPhone or iPad, before the device provides an animated face. There’s an animal for every letter of the alphabet, and many of them will make parents and kids alike laugh out loud.
Puppet Workshop
Most kids I know like sock puppets (the original kind, not the review-their-own-books-on-Amazon kind), but Puppet Workshop takes the idea digital. Kids start with a virtual sock or glove, and decorate it with buttons and other items, before placing it on a background and taking a picture. What I loved most about this app, though, is that it got my children into making real sock and glove puppets: digital play sparking physical play, rather than replacing it.
Great British Chefs Kids
This free app wants to get children cooking, with 105 recipes from 21 British chefs, split into categories like snacks, mains, cakes and biscuits, pastry, chocolate and “vegetables & salad” (good luck with that one, most parents!). Step-by-step text, photographs and videos explain everything, and there’s a Tesco tie-in to help parents buy the ingredients from their device.
HAFIDA INDRAWATI
