Paint Sparkles Draw app review: a coloring book with lots of options

Introduction

Paint Sparkles Draw - My First Coloring Book HD is an iPad and iPhone app that is for children to color. There are a variety of images to select, and you can also select to color a blank screen if your child would like to draw his or her own picture.

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Many Tools

Paint Sparkles Draw has a lot of tools to choose from. You begin with crayons, a magic wand that changes color at will, a color wheel, fireworks, and an eraser. When you select to pull up the rest of the menu, you will find a paint bucket to fill in areas, a paint brush, a menu of additional tools, the coloring picture menu, background color selection, save, and delete. In the additional tools you will find crayons, roller brush, star streak, thread fine, markers, heart streak, bingo dapper wide, wide markers, flower streak, and brick streak. Of these, only the crayon, roller, and start streak are unlocked in the free version.

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This brings me to the paid portions. Most of the tools and options are unlocked. There are 11 coloring books to choose from including animals, dolls and teddy bears, princesses, dinosaurs, ocean, cars, toys, Christmas, letters, monsters, and butterflies and flowers. The first page in each book is unlocked, giving your child 11 pictures to choose from in this education app.

Locked and Unlocked

Paint Sparkles Draw has the option of unlocking the whole set of 11 books for $3.99, or individual books for $1.99. Obviously the "unlock all" is the better option.

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I liked the options available in this coloring book, but I did find that the sparkles inhibited my ability to see where the lines were when I was trying to color in the lines. I also found that I couldn’t get the line precise enough to stay in the lines all the time. As an adult, I could brush this off, but there are kids who would have issues with that.

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Free samples
• 11 coloring pages to choose from
• 11 coloring books to choose from
• Blank page option
• Many tools to choose from

Cons

• The sparkle sometimes masks the lines of the page when you are trying to color the images
• $3.99 to unlock all, or $1.99 to unlock each book

Final Thoughts

Paint Sparkles Draw - My First Coloring Book HD is an iPad and iPhone app that is for children to color. There are a variety of images to select, and you can also select to color a blank screen if your child would like to draw their own picture. There are a lot of tool options, and a lot of different pages. In the full version, there are 21 pictures in each book, so over 200 in all. If your child likes to color, then this app will keep them busy for a long time!