Do your kids love to color? Mine do. So when I was contacted by Color It By Numbers to do a product review I was excited to do so.
*** Application icons courtesy of the Color It By Numbers website.
The Product:
Color It By Numbers is like a coloring book for kids ages 4 – 13. It is a downloadable application that can run on Mac, Windows and Linux. Users can choose from three coloring modes, namely, Color It By Numbers, Color It To Make Visible and Color It In Your Favorite Colors. The first option helps kids not only to recognize colors but learn numbers as well. The pictures are also made of separate pieces and the users will have to finish coloring in order to see it. For the more creative types, the preset colors can easily be changed to any color desired.
Kids can choose from three image categories – Vehicles, Animals and Princesses. The images are cute and friendly and have high image quality. Color It By Numbers is available in five different languages (English, German, Spanish, French and Russian) and can be adapted for all screen resolutions.
For more information, visit the Color It By Numbers website.
Roller Coaster Ride Review:
Aside from testing the application myself, I had my two daughters use it too. The Vehicles category consists of pictures of different types of transportation modes – Land, Water and Air. The images were nice and cute and fun to color. There are so many to kinds, from cars, trucks, boats and planes. However, I think this would be more suitable for boys. My two eldest kids are girls and so they preferred using the Princesses category, which consists of tons of princess images in all sorts of settings. My girls also liked the Animals category since they are both animal lovers.
The Color It By Numbers application is very easy to navigate and use. My youngest daughter, Ziya, prefers to color the images by numbers while my eldest, Zoe, prefers to use her own set of colors. They say the application is fun to use and that the images are beautiful. I think so too. The fact that it also has accompanying music and sounds makes the experience more interesting. The first time they used it they spent practically the whole afternoon coloring, which is fine with me since for the first time, they colored something without actually using crayons and paper. This is definitely one computer application I don’t mind them using over and over again. Not only does it help kids recognize colors and learn numbers, it also helps develop their computer skills as well as learn from the different types of images. The only downside to it is that there are only three image categories. Hopefully, they will develop more in the future.
Promo:
Now here’s the good part. Color It By Numbers has been generous enough to provide my readers with a chance to purchase the applications with a 15% discount! Just use the coupon code: roller-coaster-ride on the BUY page of the website.
Giveaway!!!!!
This is actually my first product review giveaway. In four months of blogging I’ve already surpassed 400 followers. As a thank you to all of you, I’m giving THREE LUCKY WINNERS a serial code each to download the Color It By Numbers application for FREE. Just follow the mechanics below:
Mandatory Entry:
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There are 5 possible entries. Good Luck!
PLEASE comment once for your mandatory entry and do not forget to include your EMAIL ADDRESS. If you have chosen to do any or all of the bonus entries, you can copy and paste all your social media ID’s in one comment for easy verification and entry.
This is an international giveaway. This giveaway starts today, March 28, 2011 and ends on Sunday, April 3, 2011.
Three (3) winners will be drawn via Random.org. The prizes will be as follows:
- One (1) winner – Serial Code for FREE download of Color by Numbers (Vehicles)
- One (1) winner – Serial Code for FREE download of Color by Numbers (Animals)
- One (1) winner – Serial Code for FREE download of Color by Numbers (Princesses)
I will notify the winner via email within 24 hours of the giveaway ending. The winner has 48 hours to reply via email. If I receive no response within that period, a new winner will be drawn.
Disclosure: I was asked to do this review and give my honest opinion for free, from either a PR agency or a company. I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. You can also go here and read my PR Polices.
I have been a follower of yours for a bit my kids also love color by number they are so fun
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Sounds great! I am here from the Happy Monday Blog Hop and am now a follower (as Yankee Texan).
My kids would love the Color By Numbers program! I am a new follower under the name They All Call Me Mom.
Thank you!
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Thanks for joining GFJC I’m a follower!!
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I’m a new follower from the week long blog hop! 🙂 Hope you’ll follow back!
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Hi, I’m already a GFC follower (Dothy) 🙂
I am a GFC follower — and thanks for the super nice comment to let me know about this awesome giveaway!
I *like* you on FB (under Cyn Knight)!
I am also following you om NetworkedBlogs! 🙂
New follower from FMBT. Great blog! Would love if you followed me back. Happy Tuesday!
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liked Roller Coaster Ride on Facebook (Dothy Ababon)
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been your follower thru gfc so i guess i have an entry 😀 thanks for inviting me to your giveaway Ice. my kids will surely love these coloring fun if i win.
hope you can also join my new meme-sweet saturday. thanks!
Such a neat and fun activity for kids, love it!
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