Experimenting with Kid Pix

Kid Pix Toolbar

The toolbar along the bottom will change as you select different tools. Let’s try it!

Toolbar ToolsWacky Pencils Draws free-form lines

Line Tool Draws straight lines

Rectangle Draws rectangles with various patterns

Oval Draws ovals in various patterns

Wacky Brush Offers you choices for painting spirals

Paint Can Fills all or part of your picture with colors and fun patterns

Electric Mixer Transform/change your drawing

Eraser Two kinds of erasers- first four work like pencil erasers; click the mouse to erase part of your picture; other erasers erase the whole picture

Talking Alphabet Stamps

Stamps letters, numbers, and punctuation marks on the pictures

Typewriter Provides the following options: edit the text without changing the pictures; hear the text read out loud; drag text around, resize or reshape it; draw under the text without erasing it

Let’s make a picture!

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Let’s save our work!

• To save a picture, create a BMP (Windows) file that you can open in Kid Pix.

• Be sure and name your project.• Click save to save the file. Kid Pix will save files to the

“My Pix” folder on the hard drive unless you navigate to a different folder.

Let’s Make a Slide ShowSlide show stage

Tools for Making a Slide Show

Use a storyboard to sequence your slide show.

Tools for Slide Show

Encourage students to

write a script for their slideshow.

Slideshow

Create a new folder.

Save your work.

Make a title picture.

Then make your picture or import pictures.

Click save.

Begin making pictures for the Slideshow.

Sources

• Kid Pix Deluxe - Broderbund (User’s Manuel 1994-1998)

Handouts

Acrobat Document