answer:Any good drawing software that includes both freehand raster and vector graphics capability should do the trick. Photoshop is the Rolls Royce of such programs, but comes with a Rolls Royce price tag. PaintShop Pro should do, and is about 1/10th of Photoshop’s price. Gimp is actually a free download and is a full featured program. Any of these will let you draw lines in any shape, close them (connect the tail ends) so they act like a object, then let you pour in colors to fill each “state” with its own color and turn the oceans and lakes blue. You can also put in circles for cities, and type in text identifying each city, lake, state, river, etc. Sounds like a project that would let him develop a very valuable skill set. Definitely support him in it.