mtPaint VS Tuxpaint-Android

mtpaint?

I use mtPaint; although GIMP is much more popular.

There is also mtPaint http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/

Definitely mtpaint, lightweight and powerful (for drawing lines and circles).

Thank you! It's 20" by 15". I don't actually use a pattern generator because I never print my patterns off. My process is to use mtPaint to scale the image to the right size (so 20" by 15" in 18pt canvas is 360 pixels by 270 pixels), and then select Convert To Indexed to reduce the number of colours (4 in this case). Then I zoom in and follow the pattern that way: 1 pixel = 1 stitch.

mtPaint

PBS Kids has a lot of games and activities on their website:

https://pbskids.org/games

If your kids watch any PBS shows them they'll recognize the characters.

The activities were fun enough for our twins to learn how to use computer mice at age 3.

Tux Paint is also really fun for young kids and a good way to learn mouse usage:

https://tuxpaint.org/

Tux Paint (version 0.9.30): A drawing program for children.

I can also recommend https://tuxpaint.org/. I see they also have an app for Android nowadays, but no iOS it seems.

TuxPaint

This is going to depend on the age of the kid. I have given a cheap Laptop to my 6-year old and introduced her to Scratch[1] and Tuxpaint[2]. I let her use the mouse and keyboard more instead of tapping on a screen. The school is likely to introduce Scratch from next year. For older kids, they should be on a normal computer. My old MacBook Pro came handy for the elder one. She does the usual Python, games and stuff but she is not really interested in the computer aspect of computers.

The one thing I want to make them learn is to touch-type but it is hard to convince them to do it regularly. Some of the collections about Computer education for kids https://notes.oinam.com/education/computer/

1. https://scratch.mit.edu

2. https://tuxpaint.org

Tux Paint is available for download, free of charge, from the project's website: https://tuxpaint.org/. Tux Paint is open source software and does not contain in-app advertising.