Kid Pix is a bitmap drawing program aimed at children. Originally created by Craig Hickman, it was first released for the Macintosh in 1989 and subsequently published in 1991 by Brøderbund.

Hickman was inspired to create Kid Pix after watching his son Ben struggle with MacPaint, and thus the main idea behind its development was to create a drawing program that would be very simple to use.



With this particular in-class workout we explored different ways in which to use drawing, like the ones you can create via Kidpix, to help in other areas of instruction, like counting in math. Below is a copy our activity where we discussed how to use KidPix to discuss "tallying,"a quick way of keeping track of numbers in groups of five.












For the full example check out the File Cabinet page in my ePortfolio.

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