Download the Java Runtime v5.0 before attempting to start Toddle Draw.

Click here to start Toddle Draw (Toddle Draw is a Java Applet that will download and run, safely, in your web browser. Download size is 3MB, so may take a few minutes to start.)

Features:

• Young children can draw colourful, engaging patterns and pictures, simply by moving the mouse around the screen. Alternatively, older children can press the left-mouse button to draw. You can change the size of the paintbrush using the mouse-wheel or slider-bar.
• The computer will write on-screen, and speak out-loud any letter and number keys that your child presses on the keyboard. Lower-case letters are spoken phoentically (ah, bu, ku, du, etc), and upper-case letters are spoken normally (aye, bee, see, dee, etc).
• Your child can cycle through a familiar set of shapes and colours, to draw and write with, simply by pressing the mouse buttons or any non-letter/number keys on the keyboard. Colour and shape names are spoken out-loud as they are selected.
• You can choose from a set of engaging background images to draw on. Painting occurs "under" the image, so that you can always see the outlines of the shapes you're colouring in.