Tux Paint

Would you like to have an interactive activity for your children to do? Or something to burn the time while you babysit? Or to even relive the nostalgic MS Paint days? If so, Tux Paint is a free drawing program made for children aged 3 to 12. Tux Paint helps users bring their imagination into the digital world, designed especially for the growing youth, providing them a platform within which they can let their ideas roam free.

With numerous brushes and tools available, all easily accessible and user-friendly, Tux Paint will be a prime choice for those children or budding teens to join in on some digital and creative fun. Saving and opening files is simple as well: there is no complicated file dialog, and saved pictures are shown as thumbnails, so users can start something new or continue their progress quickly. With its flexibility, it can be used at home or even within a scholastic environment, allowing teachers to use it to help bring out that latent creativity within their students.

Tux Paint runs on Windows 8, 10 and 11 as well as macOS, Linux, Android and other systems, and separate builds are offered for older versions of Windows. The Windows version comes as a 32-bit or 64-bit installer of under 50 MB, or as a portable ZIP package that runs from a folder. As far as financial accessibility, Tux Paint is entirely free to use and contains no ads, as it is open source software released under the GNU General Public License. It is developed by volunteers of the Tux Paint Development Team and is still actively maintained.

Children can draw, stamp shapes and add special effects to pictures in a simple interface designed for young users.

Features:

• Tux Paint boasts a simple, easy user interface with large buttons for Paint, Stamp, Lines, Shapes, Text, Label, Fill, Magic, Eraser and Undo.
• Tux Paint features interesting and encouraging sound effects for children, and Tux the penguin gives hints while they draw.
• Tux Paint features dozens of brushes, rubber stamps and Magic tools with special effects such as Blur, Chalk, Drip and Puzzle, and new brushes and stamps can be added.
• Tux Paint Config lets teachers and parents change settings such as full-screen mode, interface language, printing and simplification options.
• Parts of Tux Paint have been translated into nearly 130 languages.
• Tux Paint also features accessibility options, including keyboard and joystick control, for children who need them.