Reviewed by Mary
ILuv Drawing animals has been a favorite app of mine for sometime and iLuv drawing people is one of my five year-old daughter’s current favorite apps. She will often choose to use this app during her iPad time, she loves drawing with the app and has equally as much fun decorating her creations after she has finished. She needed some help from me when she first started using the iLuv drawing apps but now can successfully use them all by herself (just asking me for help to save her completed masterpieces). I love the fact that she is using this app so much, as she has some fine motor challenges and using this app with a stylus is great fine motor practice for her and she just thinks she is playing !! Her on paper drawing skills have improved whilst she has been using the app too – I can see what she has learnt from the app generalizing in to her drawing on paper, and that is great to see. I like the fact this app has both fill-in and freehand coloring options. The free-hand coloring is great fine motor practice, and the fill-in coloring allows young children to easily produce great results. By breaking the drawing process down into small, simple steps this app makes it easy and painless for children and adults learn new drawing skills, and it is especially useful for children with special needs learning to draw.
Another feature of this app that can easily be overlooked is that it is a great stepping stone for using your imagination, whether in decorating your pictures or in starting with an image and turning it into something different. There is no ballet dancer in the app, but I very easily created one by using the ice-skater and giving her different accessories to make the ballet dancer shown here (and I’m no artist so it really is very easy !) Completed pictures can be saved in the drawing book, on the photo roll, emailed or printed via Airprint.
The app includes no in-app purchases, adverts or social media links. There is a “more apps” button on the homepage of the app which takes you to the appstore. I would like to see this removed or moved into a less accessible spot so children are not able to accidentally access iTunes.
As well as iLuv Drawing People and iLD Animals, the series also includes iLD Santa, iLD Monsters and iLD Dinosaurs so there is plenty of choices for everyone in the family depending on their interests. You can read our reviews of iLuv Drawing Animals and iLuv Drawing Santa . We have just downloaded iLD Monsters and iLD dinosaurs but I can see that these are likely to become favorites too.
Overall, I highly recommended both iLuv Drawing People and this whole series of apps. This app is a combination of a great drawing and coloring app with a digital version of paper dolls, as get you to dress and accessorize your completed drawings. It is great for working on fine motor skills, improving drawing skills, using your creativity and imagination as well as being fun! Another must have app from iLuv Drawing.
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Category: Education
Requirements:iLuv Drawing People HD: Compatible with iPad only. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
Cost: $1.99 (46.1MB)
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Requirements:iLuv Drawing People Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Cost: $1.99 (54.4MB) FREE JUNE 20TH ONLY
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Alien Buddies is currently my daughters favorite app. We only have an iPad, so either code would be great.
I have a lot of favorite educational apps. Touch and Write is my current favorite, but I also like Speech with Milo. I would like the iPad version of the iLuv Drawing app. My daughter has the animals and people apps and loves them!
Bug games by Busy bee preschool and Do re mi 123 are 2 great educational apps for 2 and 3 year old’s that my little one adores, but they don’t get a lot of mention. I would prefer the iPad version :-)
Bugs and Buttons is the favorite in my classroom. The iPad app would be my first choice. I already have people and monsters. I need dinosaurs.
the kids done seem to favour any particular app, they seem to like all of them – Mickey Mouse and Jake and the neverland Pirates was a huge hit when I got them!! Ipad is preferred – otherwise I will never get my phone back!!
Keen to get all of these apps – but for the moment we just have the one, the kids really enjoy it :)
My favorite educational app for my preschoolers is Injini. I would like to win an iPad version of iLuv Drawing Monsters. Thank you for the giveaway.
Currently one of my son’s favorites is Picky Fruit!. i would rather have the iPad version.
Learning Touch’s First Word series are a hit with my toddler these days! We’d love the iPad version. Thank you!
My favorite eductional app for my 5 year old is Injini. It shows me what he knows even if he can’t say it. My 8 year old loves the Oceanhouse Media Smithsonian books and monster physics.
We’d like the iPad version, please.
My son has been usng I luv drawing animals on Ipad it is great for fine motors!
My favorite app at the moment is a toss up between rainbow sentences and simplex spelling.
I would like the iPad version of app… Thanks…
iPad favorite educational app is sentence maker
Right now we are loving the new Frosby app, Early Learning Teacher! I would love to have the iPhone version of dinosaurs!!! Thank you for this chance!
I have a 4 year old who has taken over my iPad I’m think I luv drawing might be the app to get his interest into drawing instead of app games all the time. The transfer of skills to pare would be great since he is starting Kindergarten this Fall.
I love using Teach Me 1st and 2nd grade with my son and Picture the Sentence HD with my daughter. We would love Dinosaurs! iPad or iPhone version.
my favorite educational app is Injini development suite, I would like iPad version
Thanks!
Team Umizoomi’s UmiNumbers is definitely one of our favorite apps. It seemed to really resonate with my 3yo ASD son and he learned to count 1 to 10 and now can count to 20 and now wants to count everything. It’s great. IPad version. Thanks!
We love drawing! But DS LOVES Dinosaurs!
Ipad pls..
Favourite app… Articulation station
We love iluv drawing apps. We would love to get dinosaur . I have 3boys, do I need to say more
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I would love to use this app with my speech and language students. It would be great for working on sequencing and following directions. It could help them be creative and learn at the same time. Thank you for introducing me to these app products!
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Its little writer. Would like an iphone ipad version.
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