Tux Paint

My kids love to play on the computer. One of our machines is a PC running Ubuntu Linux and on it one of my kids discovered Tux Paint. This is a fun little drawing and art program complete with funny little sounds that accompany the drawing. Last week I set out to see if Tux Paint was available for other platforms (i.e. Macintosh!) and sure enough, there is a Mac version of Tux Paint. 

Tux Paint is a free, open source application that, as far as I know, was originally designed for the Linux desktop. Here are some of its features:

• A number of useful drawing tools are made available.
• The drawing canvas is a fixed size, so the user doesn’t need to worry about “pixels” or “inches” when making a new picture.
• The entire program fits on a screen as small as 640×480, and can be displayed full-screen, to hide the computer’s underlying “desktop” interface. (It defaults to 800×600 mode, but can run at larger sizes and in portrait or landscape mode, as well.)
• Loading and saving of images is done using thumbnails, so no knowledge of the underlying operating system’s filesystem structure is needed. Even filenames are unnecessary.

Check it out at www.tuxpaint.org. It's FREE and GOOD.