Collection

Make, draw and play music

Screen time that ends with something they made.

• ScratchJr: Picture-based programming blocks for making characters move and telling interactive stories.
• Scratch: Interactive stories, animations and games built by snapping visual coding blocks together.
• Outschool: Teacher-led online classes in subjects such as art, coding, science and schoolwork.
• Vooks Creator: Storybook Maker: Children make their own digital book from drawings, text, stickers and a recorded voice on each page.
• Kids Drawing Games & Coloring – Drawing Academy: Tracing templates, animal and vehicle drawings, and finished pictures that come to life as animations.
• Kids Coloring & Drawing Games – Draw & Dance: Voice hints and dotted outlines guide children through drawing characters that then dance.
• Draw and Tell HD: Draw a scene, add stickers, then record the story aloud while moving the stickers around.
• Sago Mini World: Character creation, baby care, bakery treats and pretend towns in one play world.
• Crayola Create and Play: Digital crayons, paint, stamps, glow art and pixel art for making pictures.
• Toca Boca Hair Salon 4: Kids cut, curl, color and regrow a character’s hair, pick outfits and photograph the finished style.
• Bimi Boo: Build & Create: Children put up houses, towers and bridges stage by stage, starting from the foundations and using construction tools and vehicles.
• Toca Boca Jr: A collection of play activities spanning pretend cooking, block building, nature shaping and dance-making.
• Crayon Club: A coloring app with character pages, a blank canvas, and tools that run from crayons and paint to stamps, glitter and patterned tape.
• musictheory.net: Short lessons and drills on reading notes, rhythm, scales and chords.
• Chrome Music Lab: A collection of browser experiments for playing with sound, pattern and rhythm.
• Art for Kids Hub: Step-by-step drawing videos in which a parent and child draw the same subject side by side.
• LEGO Education Lesson Plans: Classroom lesson plans built around design challenges with specific LEGO Education sets.
• Ableton Learning Music: Browser lessons from Ableton on how beats, basslines, chords and melodies fit together.
• Ableton Learning Synths: Interactive lessons on how synthesizers shape sound, with controls kids drag and then listen to.
• Incredibox: A music game in which kids drag sounds onto animated performers to build a mix.
• Stop Motion Studio: An app for making stop-motion films by photographing small movements one frame at a time.
• GoNoodle: Short movement videos built around music, characters and simple instructions.
• Cosmic Kids: Story-led yoga and movement videos in which kids follow a presenter through an adventure.
• MoMA At-Home Art Activities: Art-making ideas from MoMA, each starting from a work in the museum’s collection.
• National Gallery of Art Paint ’n’ Play: A digital painting tool with brushes and palettes based on artists in the National Gallery of Art collection.
• Jarrett Lerner Creative Activities: Printable comics, story starters and drawing prompts from author-illustrator Jarrett Lerner.
• Exploratorium Tinkering Projects: Hands-on tinkering projects from the Exploratorium built around motion, balance and chain reactions.
• Getty Drawing With Kids: A short Getty article with five drawing ideas tied to artworks in the museum’s collection.
• V&A Make & Do for Kids: Design activities from the V&A, from a fantastic creature to a patterned tile or a story setting.
• Piskel for Kids: A pixel-art editor for drawing small characters and turning them into animated sprites.
• Tux Paint: A children’s drawing program with a penguin mascot, sound effects and an open canvas.
• Crayola Crafts: A library of Crayola craft projects that can be searched by materials, theme and age.
• New Victory Arts Break: A video activity in which children make a paper puppet of themselves and take it on an adventure.
• Snap!: A visual programming editor for building programs, drawings, animations and games from blocks.
• Blob Opera: Kids appear to conduct a quartet of singing blobs, dragging each one to shift its pitch and vowel.
• Piano Maestro: Kids play a real piano or keyboard while the iPad seems to listen in and light up the notes they hit.
• Tate Kids: Kids paint, draw and spray digital street art, play art games and quizzes, and find projects to make at home.
• Aqua – Adobe for Kids: Kids draw, color, design outfits, make comics and turn drawings into 3D objects on a map of creative islands.
• CBeebies Get Creative: Little ones paint, doodle, build with blocks, invent toys and make music alongside CBeebies characters.
• Classics for Kids: Kids hear composer stories on a weekly radio show, play note and rhythm games, and write little tunes of their own.
• Hoffman Academy: Kids learn piano a step at a time from Mr. Hoffman’s video lessons, with songs, ear training and practice games.
• Carnegie Hall Musical Explorers: Young kids sing, dance and learn songs from musical traditions around the world with Carnegie Hall artists.
• GarageBand: Kids play touch instruments, trigger loops and record songs, beats and their own voices on an iPhone or iPad.
• Groove Pizza: Kids build drum beats by placing toppings on a spinning pizza and hearing the patterns play.
• Dash Robot by Wonder Workshop: Kids appear to stack picture and block code that sends Dash, a small rolling robot, driving, flashing and talking around the room.
• Osmo Coding: Kids line up chunky physical coding blocks on the table and watch an on-screen character act out the sequence.
• Minecraft Education: Kids appear to roam familiar blocky worlds built around coding, math, science and history lessons.
• LEGO Builder: Kids follow LEGO building steps as 3D models they can spin and zoom, sometimes sharing one set with family.
• LEGO Education SPIKE App: Kids build LEGO models with motors and sensors, then code them using icon blocks, word blocks or Python.
• Edison Robot: Kids program a compact LEGO-compatible robot using printed barcodes, picture blocks, Scratch-style blocks or Python.
• mBlock: Kids appear to code games, animations and robots with Scratch-style blocks, then see the same program as Python.
• PictoBlox: Kids drag blocks to make games, stories and robot programs, and appear to train simple AI models along the way.
• Makey Makey: Kids clip wires to bananas, play-dough or pencil drawings and turn them into keys for computer games and music.
• KiwiCo DIY Projects: Kids build, tinker and experiment through step-by-step projects that mostly use materials found around the house.
• Pencil Code: Kids steer a drawing turtle with code to make pictures, tunes and games, flipping between blocks and typed text.
• Ozobot: Kids draw lines and colored codes with markers for a tiny robot to follow, then try block coding on a screen.
• Marty the Robot: Kids program a walking, dancing humanoid robot, starting with simple commands and moving on to blocks and Python.
• BlocksCAD: Kids snap together code blocks that build 3D shapes and objects, ready to send to a 3D printer.
• GDevelop: Kids build their own 2D and 3D games from events and ready-made behaviors, then export them to share.
• Simple Machines by Tinybop: Kids tinker with levers, pulleys, ramps, wedges, wheels and screws to launch, lift and topple things.
• Poly Bridge 3: Kids design bridges from wood, steel, rope and hydraulics, then send cars and trucks across to see if they hold.
• Brick Car 2: Kids build cars, trucks and buses out of colorful bricks, then take them out to drive and race.
• Alice: Kids drag code tiles to make 3D characters act out animated stories and small games.
• Toca Boca World: Kids move characters between apartments, shops and a salon, dressing them up and acting out stories of their own.
• Tinkercad: Kids stack and cut simple shapes into 3D models, wire up virtual circuits and build designs from code blocks.
• Night Zookeeper: Kids draw a magical animal, then write stories, poems and articles inside an adventure set in the Night Zoo.
• Simply Piano: Kids play a real piano or keyboard while the app listens to each note and responds.
• Quick, Draw!: Kids sketch a named object in 20 seconds while a computer tries to guess what it is.
• Monument Valley: Kids rotate and shift impossible buildings so a silent princess can walk paths that only line up from the right angle.
• Mekorama: Kids steer a tiny wobbly robot home through mechanical dioramas, then build levels of their own.
• Osmo Genius Starter Kit: Kids move real tangram pieces, number tiles and letter tiles in front of a tablet, and the games react to what they build.
• Dr. Panda Town Tales: Kids wander a town of shops, homes and odd corners, moving characters around to invent their own stories.
• My Town World: Kids roam a sprawling doll-house city of homes, shops and an airport, steering a crowd of characters into stories of their own.
• Fiete World: Kids sail, fly and drive with Fiete the sailor through places drawn from five countries, making up adventures as they go.
• Circle Round: Kids appear to settle in for folktales from many cultures, performed as radio plays with a cast and music.
• Story Pirates Podcast: Kids hear stories dreamed up by other kids performed as sketch comedy and songs, and some go on to write their own.
• Smash Boom Best: Kids hear two guests argue a playful matchup, like Pikachu vs. Mario, then pick a side themselves.
• Stories Podcast: Kids wind down with a weekly story, from retold fairy tales to serialized classics and original tales.
• The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel: Kids follow 11-year-old Mars Patel and his friends through a three-season audio mystery.
• Six Minutes: Kids follow Holiday, an 11-year-old with no memory and unusual abilities, through a long-running audio adventure.
• Lions and Legends: Kids listen to myths, fables and folktales from many cultures, retold as fantastical audio adventures.
• StoryJumper: Kids write and illustrate their own storybook, record their narration and can turn it into a printed book.
• MakeBeliefsComix: Kids build comic strips from ready-made characters, speech bubbles and story prompts.
• The Kid Should See This: Kids and grown-ups wander through a huge, hand-picked collection of short videos on science, nature, art and how things get made.
• Smithsonian: Fun Stuff for Kids and Teens: The Smithsonian’s kids and teens hub gathers activities from across its museums for use at home.
• Natural History Museum: Activities for All: The Natural History Museum’s Activities for All page lists ways to explore nature at home or close by.
• DK Learning Activity Packs and Worksheets: DK Learning’s activity packs are downloadable projects and worksheets on nature, STEM, history and creative subjects.