QuickAdvice: Unleash Your Child’s Creativity With Kids Corner

Kids Corner is chock-full of pre-designed elements. You have a wide assortment of borders, backgrounds, word and clip art to use with as many photos from the iPad album as your child wants.

You can also add text in a variety of fonts and colors, and email completed greeting cards from within the app.

While there are in-app instructions, the interface is very intuitive.

Each type of element is listed beneath the canvas and tapping on the name brings up several pages of fun embellishments for kids to add to their ecard or poster.

While all of the clip-art can be mixed and matched, there do seem to be 4 major themes in this first release: pirates, a summer’s day, outer space, and trains. The pirate selection is the most complete.

All the items can be easily resized, rotated, and duplicated, and using layers is genuinely child’s play.

I use a lot of ecard, scrap-booking and photo-fun apps for myself. This one can claim it’s place beside any of them.

For .99 you get more to play with than many apps at two or three times the price. All the decorations are free; there are no in-app purchases.

Parents can feel safe letting their child create on their own, and confident the app will not frustrate if they take 10 minutes to show younger kids the ropes.

Kids Corner is a great way to customize greeting cards or show off several pictures in a fun way but it does have its limitations.

I would like to see a few options added to a future release.

It would be great if a child could erase the background from a photograph so she could insert her cut-out image and really integrate it with all the fun decorations and scenery.

Also the ability to save the creation in-app both for safety (I did have one brief crash and had to start from scratch) and future editing is much needed.

So is be the ability to save your child’s creation to the photo album for posterity. And a printing feature would take this app to the next level.

Tip: you can easily snap a screen-shot of your kid’s work on your own. Just hold the sleep button for a second and then press the home button. You will hear a click and the project will be in your ‘saved photos’ album.

Kids Corner will easily engage any creative boy or girl happily for hours.

At $.99 it is a great way to send a unique email, as well as being a great introduction to page design and image manipulation for even the youngest budding graphic artist or designer.