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.