Nursery World - Young Picassos

Art software can be used to fine- tune children's mouse skills and enable them to explore their own artistic talents: Guide lines: Flood-fill the screen with black and then draw a very thick squiggly path in a contrasting light colour. This path will need to be much thicker than the brush size to be used by the child. Save the screen and make it read-only, so that other children can use it. Select a contrasting colour and explain to the child that they have to trace along the path, trying very hard not to go on to the black. Make and save a variety of paths so that children can try out different mouse skills such as moving left to right, right to left, up/down.

Guide lines: Flood-fill the screen with black and then draw a very thick squiggly path in a contrasting light colour. This path will need to be much thicker than the brush size to be used by the child. Save the screen and make it read-only, so that other children can use it. Select a contrasting colour and explain to the child that they have to trace along the path, trying very hard not to go on to the black. Make and save a variety of paths so that children can try out different mouse skills such as moving left to right, right to left, up/down.

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