That most adorable pup Blue and her human companion, Steve, are also creating masterpieces to show off at the Really Big Art Show in Blue's Art Time Activities (Humongous). They invite kids to help Blue complete four art projects and play one game so that the art show can open. This is a mixed bag of activities-some are big hits (or could be) and some are so cumbersome that kids often lose interest before they complete them. Chalk Girl needs help putting various shapes onto pictures that will go into building a mural. This is good practice for little ones who are just learning to put puzzles together and put names to shapes. As kids help create the elements of the mural they can personalize the drawings, which keeps the activity going. Periwinkle the Cat is working hard to finish illustrating various storybooks. Kids can pick one to help him with, and there's a moment of awe (even for the techno-jaded) when, for example, the drawing of the butterfly they helped complete miniaturizes and becomes an animation in the storybook. Marky Mark has spread out a smorgasbord of craft goodies at the Craft Table, but he wants kids to complete making an invitation for the art show before going on to experiment on their own. Some kids will probably comply with this request but others either won't bother and just jump ahead to make their own pictures or will come back to do it once they discover the art show can't open without it. The Mayor of Recycle Town, Al Luminum (that's not a typo), is missing pieces in his diorama. He gives kids blueprints for the three things they must build. Unfortunately, they must leave the blueprint and go gather the materials from a recycling center a couple of scenes away. This probably is good for building memory skills but the process is cumbersome. On top of that, the virtual construction of the pieces-like building a merry-go-round out of a paper plate, pipe cleaners, and tape-is downright painful as each pipe cleaner has to be bent on screen and then taped down. It would have been better to do a faster building sequence on screen and then made print out sheets for extra activities for parents and kids who wanted to build the real thing. Lastly, kids play a color mixing game with Blue's friends to learn about primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. There are ten levels to this game and the upper levels make kids really think about what colors to mix to get the ones they're looking for. Grand Prize for winning the game is a blue ribbon to award to the best art piece in the show. Fans of Blue will undoubtedly love this program despite its shortcomings, but you should also think about getting an art program in addition that's totally open-ended rather than goal-oriented like this one.