Recycling Workshop, the latest app from Jump App, is full of colour and creativity. A great companion to its sibling apps, Puppet Workshop and Imagination Box, it is a simple to use, child-directed creativity app. Your children will be able to make endless characters using recycled containers as a base and a range of recycled items as facial features and limbs.
Using the app
My children and I found the app very easy to use. The steps are simple:
- Choose a base from a variety of generic containers of different colours.
- Choose features from the different menus and drag them on to your character. Scroll up and down each menu to see the many different options for each category. Some items are drawn, but many are common items you may find around the home, e.g. Buttons for eyes, plastic cutlery or straws for arms, or a twisted chenille stick for a mouth. You are not limited to making “human” characters as there are props for animal features.
- Choose a background from several colours or even from your photos.
- Use the simple controls to resize, flip, and rotate each item to your preference. You can also undo actions.
- Simple drawing tools let you draw on the character or background, although you can’t draw over the features.
- Save a photo of your character