Very cool FREE app that permits you to draw in type. I have the free version which has limitations but I would recommend starting with it just to get the creative juices flowing 🙂

A use that immediately comes to mind is writing concrete poetry  – how cool would that be! Kids could write a tornado poem in the shape of a tornado, a cloud poem in the shape of a cloud, etc. The app allows you to input whatever text you want. Then you can use those words to draw a simple shape in any color you wish.  You can also change the font and the size of the text.

And……even the free version permits you to save your creation to a photo gallery. So from there the sky is the limit – you can email it to parents or grandparents, bring it into another program (such as Story Kit) to create a book, etc.  Awesome!!

Highly recommended!

This FREE app can be used by young kids to write stories on an iPhone, iPod or iPad.  Kids can illustrate, take photos or use saved images to enhance their stories.  They can also record themselves reading their stories. Finalized stories can be shared on the StoryKit server.  Kids receive a private web address for their stories. Pretty cool!!

Also included in this app are 4 digital books (3 LIttle Pigs, Humpty Dumpty, Goldilocks & the 3 Bears, Rocket Man) to read or they can be edited to create another version of the tale. They are older versions of the stories not the ones that kids are familiar with. The Rocket Man has a reference to smoking in it.

The value of this app is in its writing component. Some teachers are using this app with iPod or iPad labs because it’s FREE and easy to use even with young kids. There are many uses beyond basic stories – take photos and create a travel journal, illustrate and define vocabulary words, photograph and explain cycles in nature, write about historical images, create a math glossary, photograph & label geometric shapes, etc. You are only limited by your imagination!

Worth downloading.