Creative play

Creative play apps for kids

Pretend play, world building, dress-up and storytelling apps where kids make up their own games.

Ages 2–5

ScratchJr: Picture-based programming blocks for making characters move and telling interactive stories.
Pok Pok: Open-ended digital toys for drawing, building, making music and pretend play.
Sago Mini School: Preschool counting, tracing, drawing and puzzle activities set around everyday topics.
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.
LEGO DUPLO World: Digital DUPLO bricks and themed scenes with animals, vehicles and familiar places, for building and wandering around.
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.
Chrome Music Lab: A collection of browser experiments for playing with sound, pattern and rhythm.
Cosmic Kids: Story-led yoga and movement videos in which kids follow a presenter through an adventure.
Tux Paint: A children’s drawing program with a penguin mascot, sound effects and an open canvas.
Blob Opera: In Blob Opera, a Google Arts & Culture experiment, kids drag four opera-singing blobs to change their notes while the others join in.
Tate Kids: Tate Kids is a place to paint, draw and spray digital street art, play art games and quizzes, and find art 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.
LEGO Builder: Kids follow LEGO building steps as 3D models they can spin and zoom, sometimes sharing one set with family.
Bluey: Let’s Play!: Kids wander the Heeler family house, finding surprises and replaying Bluey games room by room.
Hey Duggee: The Big Badge App: Kids pick a Squirrel and play six quick games with Duggee, earning a badge for each one they finish.
Daniel Tiger’s Play at Home: Kids help Daniel Tiger through bedtime, bath time and a visit to the doctor across six short games.
Pepi House: Happy Family: Kids seem to play house across four floors, cooking, running the laundry and tinkering with the family car.
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.
Avokiddo Emotions: Kids dress up, feed and hand toys to four funny animals, then watch how each one reacts.
Pango Kids: Kids tap through soft interactive stories with Pango and friends and play small puzzles, sorting and dot-to-dot games.
LEGO DUPLO Peppa Pig: Kids snap together 3D DUPLO bricks and act out everyday adventures with Peppa, George and their friends.
Miffy’s World: Toddlers guide Miffy through her day, from bath and breakfast to gardening, painting and bedtime.
LEGO Bluey: Kids build with LEGO bricks and play out Bluey moments, from a garden tea party to floor-is-lava indoors.
My Very Hungry Caterpillar: Toddlers hatch, feed and look after Eric Carle’s caterpillar until he turns into a butterfly.
Thomas & Friends: Let’s Roll: Kids drive Thomas and friends across the Island of Sodor and lay out their own train tracks.
LEGO DUPLO Marvel: Preschoolers build with DUPLO bricks and go on kind, helpful adventures with Spidey and the Avengers.
LEGO DUPLO Disney: Kids snap together DUPLO bricks and play with Mickey, Belle, Woody and other Disney characters.
CBeebies Playtime Island: Kids join Andy on a dinosaur adventure and pick from dozens of games starring CBeebies characters.
Budge World: Kids hop between more than 100 games, from ABCs and early math to coloring, cooking and dress-up with familiar characters.
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.
Stories Podcast: Kids wind down with a weekly story, from retold fairy tales to serialized classics and original tales.

Ages 6–8

ScratchJr: Picture-based programming blocks for making characters move and telling interactive stories.
Pok Pok: Open-ended digital toys for drawing, building, making music and pretend play.
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.
LEGO DUPLO World: Digital DUPLO bricks and themed scenes with animals, vehicles and familiar places, for building and wandering around.
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.
Chrome Music Lab: A collection of browser experiments for playing with sound, pattern and rhythm.
Cosmic Kids: Story-led yoga and movement videos in which kids follow a presenter through an adventure.
Jarrett Lerner Creative Activities: Printable comics, story starters and drawing prompts from author-illustrator Jarrett Lerner.
V&A Make & Do for Kids: Design activities from the V&A, from a fantastic creature to a patterned tile or a story setting.
Tux Paint: A children’s drawing program with a penguin mascot, sound effects and an open canvas.
New Victory Arts Break: A video activity in which children make a paper puppet of themselves and take it on an adventure.
Blob Opera: In Blob Opera, a Google Arts & Culture experiment, kids drag four opera-singing blobs to change their notes while the others join in.
Tate Kids: Tate Kids is a place to paint, draw and spray digital street art, play art games and quizzes, and find art 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.
LEGO Builder: Kids follow LEGO building steps as 3D models they can spin and zoom, sometimes sharing one set with family.
Brick Car 2: Kids build cars, trucks and buses out of colorful bricks, then take them out to drive and race.
Toca Boca World: Kids move characters between apartments, shops and a salon, dressing them up and acting out stories of their own.
Bluey: Let’s Play!: Kids wander the Heeler family house, finding surprises and replaying Bluey games room by room.
Night Zookeeper: Kids draw a magical animal, then write stories, poems and articles inside an adventure set in the Night Zoo.
Mekorama: Kids steer a tiny wobbly robot home through mechanical dioramas, then build levels of their own.
Dr. Panda Town Tales: Kids wander a town of shops, homes and odd corners, moving characters around to invent their own stories.
Pepi House: Happy Family: Kids seem to play house across four floors, cooking, running the laundry and tinkering with the family car.
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.
Avokiddo Emotions: Kids dress up, feed and hand toys to four funny animals, then watch how each one reacts.
Pango Kids: Kids tap through soft interactive stories with Pango and friends and play small puzzles, sorting and dot-to-dot games.
Thomas & Friends: Let’s Roll: Kids drive Thomas and friends across the Island of Sodor and lay out their own train tracks.
Budge World: Kids hop between more than 100 games, from ABCs and early math to coloring, cooking and dress-up with familiar characters.
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.
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.

Ages 9–12

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.
Draw and Tell HD: Draw a scene, add stickers, then record the story aloud while moving the stickers around.
Toca Boca Hair Salon 4: Kids cut, curl, color and regrow a character’s hair, pick outfits and photograph the finished style.
Chrome Music Lab: A collection of browser experiments for playing with sound, pattern and rhythm.
Stop Motion Studio: An app for making stop-motion films by photographing small movements one frame at a time.
Jarrett Lerner Creative Activities: Printable comics, story starters and drawing prompts from author-illustrator Jarrett Lerner.
V&A Make & Do for Kids: Design activities from the V&A, from a fantastic creature to a patterned tile or a story setting.
Tux Paint: A children’s drawing program with a penguin mascot, sound effects and an open canvas.
Snap!: A visual programming editor for building programs, drawings, animations and games from blocks.
Blob Opera: In Blob Opera, a Google Arts & Culture experiment, kids drag four opera-singing blobs to change their notes while the others join in.
Tate Kids: Tate Kids is a place to paint, draw and spray digital street art, play art games and quizzes, and find art 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.
LEGO Builder: Kids follow LEGO building steps as 3D models they can spin and zoom, sometimes sharing one set with family.
GDevelop: Kids build their own 2D and 3D games from events and ready-made behaviors, then export them to share.
Alice: Kids drag code tiles to make 3D characters act out animated stories and small games.
Bluey: Let’s Play!: Kids wander the Heeler family house, finding surprises and replaying Bluey games room by room.
Night Zookeeper: Kids draw a magical animal, then write stories, poems and articles inside an adventure set in the Night Zoo.
Mekorama: Kids steer a tiny wobbly robot home through mechanical dioramas, then build levels of their own.
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.
Pango Kids: Kids tap through soft interactive stories with Pango and friends and play small puzzles, sorting and dot-to-dot games.
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.
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.

Ages 13+

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.
Stop Motion Studio: An app for making stop-motion films by photographing small movements one frame at a time.
V&A Make & Do for Kids: Design activities from the V&A, from a fantastic creature to a patterned tile or a story setting.
Snap!: A visual programming editor for building programs, drawings, animations and games from blocks.
Blob Opera: In Blob Opera, a Google Arts & Culture experiment, kids drag four opera-singing blobs to change their notes while the others join in.
LEGO Builder: Kids follow LEGO building steps as 3D models they can spin and zoom, sometimes sharing one set with family.
GDevelop: Kids build their own 2D and 3D games from events and ready-made behaviors, then export them to share.
Alice: Kids drag code tiles to make 3D characters act out animated stories and small games.
Mekorama: Kids steer a tiny wobbly robot home through mechanical dioramas, then build levels 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.
Pango Kids: Kids tap through soft interactive stories with Pango and friends and play small puzzles, sorting and dot-to-dot games.
Circle Round: Kids appear to settle in for folktales from many cultures, performed as radio plays with a cast and music.
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.