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Kids love designing! I've found the easiest way to get my students to create really descriptive passages is to provide them with interesting and engaging prompts. What better way to engage then let them create the object in the first place. Check out the apps below that really lend themselves to becoming excellent descriptive writing prompts.
Make a Monster HD
With over 144 parts this is a fun little app for creating your own monster.
Cost: FREE for a limited time. |
Create a Monster
Another monster creator with the ability to save and alter monsters in your gallery.
Cost: $2.99 |
Angry Bird Maker
Angry birds is a hit with everyone. Why not test out how levers work with the plush variety and then design your own! You can only save a screen cap at this stage but designer is looking to add photo functionality in a free upgrade soon.
Cost: $0.99 |
Build a Robot
Choose from a massive selection of robot parts. Why not combine it with a reading of Robot Dog by Mark Oliver.
Cost: $0.99 |
Alien Maker HD
Create an alien. There's not quite as many pieces to use in this app as the others though.
Cost: $0.99 |
Create a Car
Exactly the same as the interactive featured on the ABCya website. I've found my students, especially boys, love this!
Cost: $0.99 |
Make an Animal
With the ability to change so many different parts of the animal there are millions of combinations!
Cost: FREE |
Abby Monster Maker Lite
Create your own little monsters by changing their body colour adn shape, eyes, mouth and background. Saves to phot roll.
Cost: FREE |
Abby Robots Maker Lite
With several different head body and leg parts, you can make stacks of different robots. There are 16 varieties of each in the full version, plus 48 backgrounds.
Cost: FREE |
Moody Monster Manor
Create your own monster. Very simple with limited options here but the monster creator is only a small aprt of the app. You can play with the other mosnters in games to match faces to feelings and do simple maths equations.
Cost: FREE |