This document provides a list of art and education apps that are useful for teachers and students. It begins by explaining that when the author first got an iPad, they downloaded many apps but did not learn to use them effectively. The document then lists over 30 art, drawing, animation and education apps. For each app, it provides the app name, price, age range, and brief description. The goal is to help teachers and students find apps to incorporate 21st century technology into lessons and increase student engagement with the arts.

1. Authored by Karina D. Barley – M.Ed
To learn more please visit
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INCLUDING ART REFERENCE APPS

2. The iPad is quickly becoming the most
innovative & exciting technology based teaching
tool to come along in years.
You’re a teacher and your school has handed
you an iPad. You’re expected to do something
with it and you’re freaking out. Where to start?
What to do? What apps should I start with?
When I first started on the iPad journey, I
downloaded so many apps, it was impossible to
learn how to use them all effectively. Further
along my journey, I realized there were many
apps I hadn’t even opened yet and were going
to waste on my iPad desktop.

3. This device and specific apps can transform YOUR
classroom like never before: the technology brings
your classroom into the 21st Century; increases
student engagement and motivation; students
become collaborative partners in the learning
process; your lessons can easily be matched to the
Common Core Standards; and individualized
learning has never been easier to achieve.
I now advise teachers to only download a few apps at
a time; learn them; use them in lessons; work out
how you can incorporate them so that they align with
the CCS; and finally learn how to engage and
motivate your students to ‘learn’ using 21st Century
technology.
This is the first list I have created, with my
favorite iPad apps for Art and Education.
Enjoy!

4.  Please note the prices are subject to change
 If you click on each app icon it will take you to
the App’s page on the iTunes App Store
 A lot of the apps are available for Android
through the Google Play Store. Please visit
https://play.google.com/store/apps to find out
more!

5. Amopic - $6.99 (All Ages)
Amopic is an all in one photo editing suite for your iPad. This
comprehensive app puts all of the powerful image editing features you
love using on your PC right in your hand. Amopic lets you repair or
enhance images on the fly, or even create your own artwork from
scratch! This app is a bit more expensive, but it is the art app I prefer.
Animation Creator HD - $2.99 (All Ages)
Animation Creator HD allows student’s creativity to come to life on their
iPad! They are the director! With simple, yet powerful drawing tools,
color options, and easy to use frame management, students are only
limited by their imagination! Animations will look smooth and life-like
with the high frame rate playback of Animation Creator HD. This is a
fabulous app for those students who are into Anime etc.

6. Click N Colour - $2.49
(Elementary School & Special Needs)
Has lots of really nice coloring pages.
Artisan - $0.99 (All Ages)
This app is really fun. It has great brushes and textures which allows for
different and wild visual experiences. Using simple finger movements
students can create stunning images that constantly evolve into new
shapes over time. This app uses lights, shapes and motion … making it
a really sensory experience.
Art Studio - $4.99 (All Ages)
Art Studio is the most comprehensive, sketching, painting and photo
editing tool in the App Store. It’s the closest to Photoshop I can find.
Students can use layers and effects to create beautiful digital works of
art.

7. Coloring Book - Free
(Elementary School & Special Needs)
Comic Book! – Free (All Ages)
A great way to create a comic book. Suitable for students in Primary
classrooms, but could also be fun for kids in older grades as well.
Has realistic comic styling with a wide selection of: image filters,
comic fonts, customizable captions, a library of classic comic
graphics and dozens of multi-panel page layouts.
My Coloring Book – Free
(Elementary School & Special Needs)

8. Drawing Pad - $1.99 (All Ages)
Drawing & painting app. Drawpad or Sketchbook Pro $4.99 (more
advanced) - Both are drawing apps and have many uses.
Create your own art using "actual-sized" photo-realistic crayons,
markers, paint brushes, colored pencils, stickers, roller pens and
MORE!
Home Design & Home 3D - $8.49
(All Ages)
Create, Layout, Design and Visit the home of your dreams! You can
change the deco; the color and rearrange the home. This is fantastic
for graphics or design students.
Kid Paint – Free (Elementary grades)
Drawing app.

9. Magic Painter - $2.99 (All Ages)
Magic Painter is an amazing app that students can enjoy with fascinating drawing tools.
It is a very different type of painting and offers some variety for students.
Scrap It HD- Free (All Ages)
A scrapbooking app where the students can create photo albums and scrapbooks on
their iPad. This is an alternative for the more creative student. There are a number of
different versions of this app for specific themes (i.e. Summer, Christmas, Halloween)
Phoster - $1.99 (All Ages)
With stylish templates which are already within the app, students will be able to create
posters without great effort. Once they’ve made their poster, they can utilize various
effects and decorates to complete a chic poster.

10. PhotoPuppet HD - $2.99 (All Ages)
The easiest and fastest way for students to make
cartoons on the iPad. They can cut anything out
of their photos and move it on the screen. The
app will then record everything they do on the
screen. This is quite a complex app and has
many features, but once conquered, it has
unlimited potential.

11. Pictello - $18.99 (All Ages)
App to create photobooks, social stories & other
stories. Can add photos and text.
Procreate – Sketch, paint, create - $5.99 (All Ages)
This is the only studio-grade sketchbook for iPad.
Procreate puts you in a league of your own. Packed with
over 45 professional brushes ranging from true-to-life
sets of sketching pencils and gorgeous paint brushes,
to impossible abstract brushes. Procreate is a
professional studio of art tools.

12. Toontastic, Play, Create, Learn – Free
(All Ages)
Lights, Camera, Play! Toontastic is a storytelling and
creative learning tool that enables kids to draw, animate,
and share their own cartoons with friends and family
around the world through simple and fun imaginative
play! This is an excellent app for younger students who
want to create their own cartoons.
RotoDoodle - $2.49
(Elementary and Middle School)
App is like original spirograph.

13. ARART - Free
ARART is an application that breathes life into objects. ARART
presents a new platform of expression connecting artistic creation with
reality. Combined with the Art Museum app, you could really make art
projects come alive. Also, then using Arasma, students could possibly
do something similar with their own art projects.
Art HD - Free (Middle/High School)
This app has great Artists and their
masterpieces. You can view the pieces
in a simulated Art Gallery.
There is also a slideshow and quiz.

14. Art Authority - $9.99 (Middle/High School)
From the earliest creative pieces to the latest modern and
contemporary works, Art Authority provides a stunningly displayed,
carefully selected, well organized view of the western art world. It's
part world-class art museum, part academic reference library and
part digital coffee-table book. It's also part magic. An art museum like
no other! This is a beautiful app and worth the high price tag.
Timeline - Art Museum – Free (Middle/High School)
Timeline brings to life the paintings of such masters as Botticelli, Da
Vinci, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Monet, Courbet, Klimt, and 73 others
in an eye-catching and easy to navigate format.

15. There are more of my favorite apps lists to come!
I have over 400 apps on my iPad and Android tablets
and will continue to share my reviews with you.
These apps can be used in the classroom or just at
home.
To learn more please visit
www.projectautismusa.com
www.digitallearningtree.com