Drawing for Childen is a free drawing program for children with many nice options. You can draw with many different pens, you can put stamps on your drawings, create all sort of text effects, and much more. The program is suitable for very young children and has a child mode especially for them. But it also provides lots of fun to older kids. It is used by hundreds of thousands of kids all over the world. The best way to see what is possible is to simply download it and install it. Remember, it is free.
Drawing for Children runs on basically any PC and any windows version (95 till Vista). For more information, see the readme file. The newest version 2.2 (dated Dec 26, 2007) adds support for different picture sizes and has a better settings form.
Drawing for Children version 2.2 (1.2M)
Drawing for Children version 2.2 as zip file (1.2M)
Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S (that is, hold the Ctrl, Alt and Shift key and press S) to show the settings form. Here you can change the mode again. You can also use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q to quit the program.
The pictures don't print or the prints are gray-scale.
This happens on certain (old?) printers. A work-around is the following. Click on the pair of scissors in the sketch list. Pull a box around the picture with the mouse (or around a part of the picture you want to print). The picture is now put on the clipboard. Now open another drawing program (like the standard Paint) or open Word. Use Ctrl+V to paste the picture. Print it from there.
When will a new version appear.
This is uncertain at the moment. We have done some work on a new version but currently this is halted because we are actively developing the next version of Game Maker.