Drawing for Childen is a free drawing program for children with many nice options. You can draw with many different pens, you can put stamps on your drawings, create all sort of text effects, and much more. The program is suitable for very young children and has a child mode especially for them. But it also provides lots of fun to older kids. It is used by hundreds of thousands of kids all over the world. The best way to see what is possible is to simply download it and install it. Remember, it is free.

The program Drawing for Children is a drawing program that is especially suited for small children. Children don't need to be able to read to use the program. Also, rather than asking the user to set all sorts of options it simply gives a large number of different ways of drawing. The best way to learn what the program can do is to simply play with all the buttons. There are normal drawing commands, for drawing lines, circles, etc. but also many weird ones to draw railroads, pipes, bubbles, grass, etc. Just try experimenting to make the weirdest pictures. There are many different pens, stamps, cliparts, backgrounds, and special effects. One thing is important to remember when experimenting: in most cases the left mouse button does something else than the right mouse button. Also most of the time holding the <Shift> key on the keyboard increases the size of the things you draw. When holding the <Ctrl> key again different things happen. So don't forget to try these possibilities (and all combinations) as well. Finally, holding the <Alt> key always snaps positions to a grid. This is useful for positioning things you draw.

Drawing for Children requires a modern PC running Windows 95 or later. The program should be Vista compatible. The program requires a screen resolution of at least 800x600.

Even though this documentation is not necessary to use and understand the program I still give an overview of the options. When starting the program you see a window with the following parts: At the top there are the most important buttons. Their function will be described below. (If you leave the mouse pointer on a button a short message appears describing its function.) For most buttons there are various possibilities. They will appear on the left of the drawing area. With the two arrow buttons you can scroll through the options.

Below you find an overview of the different buttons on the top row and what they do. I will only give brief descriptions. To find out the details, just try them out.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this kids game software.