Read and Create!, 2nd ed.

Title: Read and Create!, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Art: Summer Reading - Ages 8+
Release Date: 04/15/25
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: Crayola,Smithsonian,Tipitap Inc.
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Launchpad Description: Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long! Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks.


This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Art Puzzle: Sliding Pieces (App)
This fun app introduces kids and adults to 100 of the world's greatest paintings from da Vinci to Van Gogh, Monet and Rembrandt! Listen to 5 classical pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Berliotz while you solve the puzzles! The puzzles are created by slicing the painting into strips and scrambling them. To solve the puzzle simply slide the slices into the right position. You can take a peek at the full painting and the app keeps track of how many moves you make and the time it takes to solve the puzzle. Trying to solve the puzzles allows you to focus on the paintings with a degree of concentration and detail that a casual glance at a book or even a museum visit cannot achieve. This helps shape not only your general knowledge of art, but also hone your aesthetic sensibilities. This is specially valuable for kids who can recognize styes long before then can learn the names of the artists and paintings. They will learn to see the world through the eyes of these great masters while t

Comic Maker (App)
Bring out the story-teller hidden in you! Pictures speak a thousand words. With this easy-to-use app anyone can create their own story/comics/jokes for a variety of contexts. 

Create Children's Book (App)
This cool app enables kids to create their own stories using a huge collection (nearly 4500+ unique assets) of backgrounds, characters, objects and everything required to create a complete story book. Use different speech bubbles, effects, filters, masks to make beautiful comic books, riddles, jokes, quotes, greetings, presentation and many more.

Draw Your Own Comic Strip Craft Activity (app)
It's Craft Time with Air and Space! Create your own comic strip adventure story! Join museum educator Ann Caspari as she demonstrates how to draw a simple comic strip and create your own space adventure story.

Easy Peasy: English for Kids (App)
"EASY peasy learning • Create your own lessons and vocabulary lists. • Use the lessons available to learn or deepen your knowledge. • Flashcards principle: ideal and proven concept to learn new knowledge in the long term. ► Leitner algorithm: Better learning with flashcards We have refined the Leitner principle in such a way that it is the ideal accompaniment and supplement to school lessons. ► different learning methods: fun and variety We have developed different learning methods. Depending on the level of the child, these methods are combined for learning, for example: Finding word pairs or picture pairs, spelling, translating, listening and understanding, completing sentences, etc.... ► own lessons and vocabulary lists There are already many different learning topics in the app. Of course, you can also create your own vocabulary lists as preparation or accompaniment for school lessons. ► own speed Each child learns differently. Repetitions consolidate knowledg

Flourish (App)
Practice the art of calligraphy lettering with Flourish - Lettering Craft. A digital calligraphy app for writing flourishing letters on Android phones and tablets. Practive your script-style handwriting with our 52 tracing letters (lower and upper case alphabet)|plus our original hand drawn 'Calligrams' and practice writing over the worksheets. Add flourishing cursive loops at the start and end of your words to give your handwritten letters an artful appearance. Then hide your tracing lines|choose a background paper texture and your calligraphy art is finished! Why not write your name in calligraphic style?

Happy Brush Calligraphy (App)
Happy Brush Paint & Calligraphy is a minimalist drawing app which allows users to create the art of ink painting on your Android tablet. Designed for all ages, Happy Brush Calligraphy provides artists with a fun and simple way to express themselves!

I Want To Be in a Book (app)
Read aloud for kids, written by kids! The KidTime StoryTime Puppets are in their own book! Two KidTime StoryTimers fans wrote this story starring Doug the Dinosaur and fan favorite, the Storyteller! It's proof the power to create is in your hands!

Learning to Fly (Flights of Fancy) (app)
Gather your little ones for story time with the National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story "Learning to Fly." The Three Friends have trouble playing a flight video game and then have more fun creating play cockpits where they can pretend to be pilots. After the story we create our own cardboard aircraft cockpits.

Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Cause and Effect (app)
Looking closely at art helps us imagine a story and predict how it could change. In this activity, you will use a piece of art as a story starter – then predict what could happen next.