Draw and Colour
Colour any of the 40 Little Roos animals, or draw on a blank page with stamps and a magic mirror. Every tool says its name, and a picture prints just as it looks.
The tools
- Fat brushes in three sizes, easy for small hands to fill a space with.
- Fill it in: tap a space and it fills, right up to the lines. Tap a filled space again to change it.
- Colours and patterns: ten colours, each with its name said aloud, and five patterns (stripes, spots, checks and zigzags, or plain). A child who finds two colours hard to tell apart can always tell stripes from spots.
- Stamps on the blank page: the outlines of eight Little Roos animals, ready to colour in.
- Magic mirror on the blank page: whatever is drawn on one side appears on the other, so every picture is symmetrical.
- Undo, as many times as needed. Start again always asks first, so a picture can't be rubbed out by accident.
- Print it: the picture prints on one A4 page, just as it looks on screen, with a line for a name.
- Put it in my journal: the eight newest pictures are kept on your device, under My pictures and in My Roo Journal, to keep going with later.
It works with a finger, a stylus, or a computer's pointer. With a switch (see Ways to play), the stamps can be placed on a three-by-three grid of spots, and every tool, colour and pattern can be chosen.
Colouring pages to print
Every animal card as a colouring page, traced from the Little Roos artwork. Tap one to print it on A4.
Ant
Bandicoot
Bat
Bee
Butterfly
Camel
Cane Toad
Cockatoo
Crocodile
Dingo
Dugong
Echidna
Emu
Flying Fox
Frog
Galah
Gecko
Great White Shark
Ibis
Jellyfish
Koala
Kookaburra
Lizard
Mosquito
Numbat
Octopus
Pelican
Platypus
Possum
Quokka
Rainbow Lorikeet
Snake
Spider
Spotted Quoll
Tasmanian Devil
Wallaby
Wasp
Whipbird
Wombat
Yabby
Away from the screen
Print a colouring page and colour it with real crayons. Then try a fold-and-paint butterfly: blobs of paint on one half of a folded sheet, pressed shut, make a picture that matches on both sides.
What it practises
- Drawing and colouring. Making pictures: choosing colours and patterns, filling shapes, and drawing ideas of your own.
AC9AVAFC01 (Visual Arts, Foundation); AC9AVAFD01 (Visual Arts, Foundation) - Colours. Noticing and matching colours.
EYLF 4.2 (Early Years Learning Framework V2.0) - Symmetry. Making both sides of a picture match, as if in a mirror. (Symmetry is a Year 4 outcome; this is a gentle early start.)
AC9M4SP03 (Mathematics, Year 4); EYLF 5.4 (Early Years Learning Framework V2.0)
What it costs, and what we collect
Nothing, and nothing. Pictures are kept on your own device and never sent anywhere.
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