Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a free, fun drawing application built for young children (kids over the age of 3). It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program. Tux Paint provides a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help your child be creative. Additional artwork ( stamps ) can be downloaded and installed, providing a sticker-book functionality.

It has been translated into over 45 languages, and a graphical configuration tool for parents and teachers is available which permit Tux Paint to be reconfigured to suit the special needs of children or the classroom environment.

- Paint brush
- Various brushes available
- Parents/teachers can add more brushes
- Brushes can be animated
- Brushes can change shape depending on the direction they're drawn
- Alternate color palettes can be created and used
- Rubber stamp
- Hundreds of photographic and cartoon stamps images are available
- Parents/teachers can add more stamps and create categories
- Stamps can have descriptive text and sound samples (names, facts, etc.) and/or sound effects assigned to them
- Stamps can be resized, flipped and mirrored
- Raster bitmaps (Portable Network Graphics ("PNG")) with full-color and alpha transparency (32bpp RGBA) supported
- Vector graphics (Scalable Vector Graphics ("SVG")) supported (Coming in version 0.9.17!)
- Line tool
- Uses Paint Brush's brushes
- "Rubberband" shows where the line will be drawn as you move the mouse
- Shape tool
- Draw various filled and unfilled polygonal shapes
- Rotate shapes (this feature can be disabled for younger children)
- Text tool
- Comes with various fonts
- Bold, italic and size can be changed
- Parents/teachers can add more fonts
and many more