JumpStart Artist

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Summary: Ideal for homeschooling
Review: Featuring art curriculum based on the National Standards for Arts Education, JumpStart Artist introduces students in kindergarten through third grade to the elements and principles of art, art history, the cultural significance of art, art production and display. Featuring drawing, painting, quilting, puppets, and collage activities, students are drawn into the diverse world of art as they develop understandings of basic art concepts using a collection of more than one hundred famous artworks, folk art, and cultural crafts drawn from around the world. There are fun activities introducing students to such fundamental concepts as line, shape, form, texture, value, space, color, symmetry, pattern, focal point, contrast, mood, symbols, and style. A True Color, 32-bit palette enables students to experiment with blending tools for achieving realistic color-mixing effects for their own creations. There are three levels of complexity that provide students with progressively challenging experiences. JumpStart Artist is ideal for homeschooling, and strongly recommended for traditional classroom art appreciation curriculum supplementation.

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Summary: Fun & Creative
Review: I bought this for my daughter when she was 4. She is now 5. From the start this was one of her favorites and she still plays with it once or twice a week. She likes the colors and textures and variety. I like the fact that it is a creative toy that captures her imagination and it does not contain people or situations that I feel are inappropriate for small children.

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Summary: The Perfect Tool!
Review: I've been teaching computer to first through third graders and have tried every art program out there. This program is the answer to a three year search! It is the perfect tool for teaching young children art in a fun, relaxed, interesting and exciting way. It can be played through for fun, or easily broken down into assignments and lessons. The famous art included is excellent, broad in scope, and well described and presented. The tools are easy to use, and the printouts are great. No need to have to switch to different screen settings to use it either (thanks so much kid pixs--didn't tell us that one on the box didja). The program even includes ready made lessons in the idea starter section that teach principles like positive and negative space, texture, pattern, color mixing etc. It is a truly awesome program from my point of view, and the kids love it to!

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Summary: Fun, entertaining, different
Review: My son really liked this artist program. We first rented it from the library, and then he liked it so well we bought it. This program is different from a lot of the other artist programs out there becaue it teaches art fundamentals (i.e. what is texture, introduces kids to the color wheel, asks kids to re-create a pictures that are already drawn by causing them to match patterns, introduces them to mixing colors, etc.) It has a movie area where the pre-drawn pictures you color come to life in a movie.

It teaches foreign language. One of the movies is about a pinata, and it teaches the Spanish words for big and small. It is extremely enjoyable for preschoolers (age 4), yet it is complex enough that a young grade school child would not think it was too easy or too young for them.

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Summary: My 5 Year old LOVES this!
Review: She took to it right away and it was difficult to get her to do other activities once she popped this CD into the drive. She is artistic by nature and this program is a BIG HIT with her!Plenty of variety and rewards for her effort to boot!

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Summary: Jump Start rules
Review: This is an excellent example of what childrens software should be. This product could hold my childrens' attention for probably hours, by having them to use their own imagination instead of just "finishing" someone elses' idea. They have even found ways to play with three of four children at a time. We have had this product for over a year and it is still the one they reach for first. Jump Start products are always way ahead of the rest and this one is no different.

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Summary: more that a kids software
Review: This is one of our favorite jump start programs. I was not sure who likes it the best: my eight year old, the five year old who has all ready build an amusement park.(you earn parts for this as you play), grandma(she bought this one), or me who was able to create my very own piture that as became my wall paper. This art program was bought for my five year old who is into scrapebooking with grandma. There are some sections that I find somewhat hard like the make a quilt. There are other sections that are for everyone in the house to do like make your own piture or Frankie's tent where you can make pitures that will go into a story/song/movie that is where most of our ride piece have come from. There is a tent that your child will learn about shapes and mixing paints. You also will learn difern kinds of art and even a mini game where you play with CJ and Edison. My age range 4 to 100.

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Summary: Great program my five year old is addicted.
Review: This is probably the best begginers art program I have ever seen. My daughter who is five plays this game constantly.It is not only fun but very educational. My daughter saw a reprint of a famous picture the other day and said "daddy thats Mona Lisa by Divincci" I was amazed. You can make movies, pictures with paint, stamps,crop,build objects, and tons of other activities. Watch out Photo-Shop six my five year old is comming.