Hello! I am Ogamari.
It's November and the mornings and evenings are suddenly getting colder. There are days when it is hard to get out of the house.... I would like to introduce an application I came across that will make you happy during this season when you spend more time playing at home!
Easy to play with paper!
at Claps" is a smartphone application that makes it easy to print paper toys.
More than 40 companies and organizations cooperate with this service, and more than 500 contents are available free of charge!
BabyTech® Awards 2024won the grand prize in the Children's Play and Learning category at the
Contents are divided into four categories: "Coloring," "Paper Crafts," "Recycled Crafts," and "Preschool Materials.
Within each category, there are further subcategories to narrow down the search.
You can also narrow your search by "seasonality" or "difficulty." There were many Level 1 contents that could be enjoyed by 1-2 year olds! (Some of them had the target age range written on them, while others did not.)
What I personally found interesting was the "Recycled Craft" category. You can turn candy packages, milk cartons, empty boxes, and other things that are usually thrown away as trash into toys!
It seems that various companies originally offered this service on their own websites, but this application allows you to search all of them at once, which is very convenient! I was also surprised because I didn't know such contents existed. I'm going to eat too many sweets just to make a toy...!
Printing is available at convenience stores nationwide!
What I found wonderful about this "at Claps" is that printing can be done easily at convenience stores! Convenience store printing generally requires you to register the items you want to print using the print apps of each company, and issue a print number to be entered at the copier. With "at Claps," however, you don't have to do that! You can issue a print number with just a few taps!
At the bottom of each content screen, there is a button titled "Print at Convenience Store. Tap it, and you will see a button that says "Issue a print number.
As soon as that happens, "Print number is being issued" is displayed!
The notice stated, "It may take up to three minutes," but this time it took only about one minute to receive a notification that the number had been issued!
The issued print numbers can be viewed together from the "Convenience Store" tab, so there is no need to make a note of them.
I am happy to play even if I don't have a printer at home! I've printed a lot too.
This "at Claps" was created based on the experience of the originator of the idea, who was able to spend warm moments playing with paper toys with her children. I would like to create many joyful moments with my daughter through crafts and work!
Child of the Week.
She is very busy taking care of her sister and Mel-chan (doll). She seems to be paying a lot of attention to the babies in the 0-year-old class at the nursery school, and I feel that she is growing up.
Ogamari (IT enthusiast)
A new mother who gave birth in May 2010, she is a freelance website developer, computer instructor, and programming tutor. Her hobbies are watching comedy and bowling (she is a bowler, but is taking a break due to the birth of her child).
Operates "MOMIT," an online IT community for moms only.
https://momit.jp/