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This app provides young learners with opportunities to be creative while they work with different colors, letters, numbers, and shapes.
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App Overview
Imagination Box is an app that allows young learners to create an endless variety of pictures using built-in shapes and drawing tools. The shapes have a three-dimensional quality to them and look like they are shaped out of clay or dough.
Capabilities:
- Choose or change backgrounds
- Drag items to create pictures
- Reduce, enlarge, rotate, flip, delete, undo buttons
- Change color
- Grey, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green, brown, black
- Draw with markers of different widths and colors (erase also available)
- Add shapes, numbers, letters
- Circle, oval, half circle, squares rectangle, triangles trapezoid Diamonds, heart, flower, star, moon, and squiggles
- Digits
- Capital letters
Settings:
- Apps banner (on/off)
- Music (on/off)
- Sound effects (on/off)
- Take a snapshot (on/off)
- Erase all creations
Instructional Ideas
- Practice color, shape, digit, and letter recognition
- Start to gain an understanding of how objects are affected by rotation, flipping, enlargement, and reduction
- Practice digit and capital letter writing using the built-in symbols as a guide
- Have students create an accompanying story with their number or letter picture
Classroom Considerations
- The app doesn't offer the ability for multiple users to have separate accounts, but you could set up each student with a different sheet on the homepage. Sixteen different sheets are possible at one time. Consider writing each student's name in the corner of the sheet beforehand.
Pros
- Help develop fine motor skills
- Can be used by learners with a wide range of abilities
- Can be used to emphise shape, color, number, and letter recognition
- Has the ability to save pictures to the camera roll
Cons
- The app doesn't directly teach the names of the shapes, colors, digits, or letters, but it does provide a nice forum for an adult to work with a child and assist with their learning