Feltip

Father's Day · for dads

A Father's Day Gift From Your Child's Own Drawings

He says he doesn't want anything. He has the drawing of the two of them on his desk anyway. This Father's Day, the drawings stop disappearing.

Photograph each one and Feltip keeps it exactly as they drew it, reads what is in it, and notices when the car with five wheels or the dad taller than the house comes back. We never redraw a single line.

What he gets is a place to watch it grow: the characters that keep coming back, the first time a new one appeared, and a private link on his phone that you can switch off whenever you like.

And the car with five wheels can go on an adventure. Put it in a short story you play together: they choose what happens, and the one they finish can be a print for his desk.

To start you send a photo of a drawing and your child's first name.

We keep their art exactly as they drew it

Cut out, and we never redraw a single line. What we notice is written beside it, never on it.

Start with the one on the fridge

A photo of a drawing is all it takes. Sign in and it is kept exactly as drawn, for as long as you want it.

At least 10 characters.

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Four steps, and the first one is yours

  1. 1

    Photograph it

    Phone photos are fine — crooked, glared, on lined paper.

  2. 2

    We keep it exactly

    Lifted off the paper exactly as drawn, and read: who's in it, what it's made with. Names come from you.

  3. 3

    Add the next one

    If someone looks like the dinosaur from March, we say “likely” and ask you. Their world counts who and where, and replays it in order.

  4. 4

    Bring it to life

    Put their characters in a short adventure you play together, where they choose what happens. And a link for grandparents you can switch off.

Not a story they watch. One they help make.

  • Create

    The hero is something they drew.

  • Choose

    At each turn the story asks them, and the choice is theirs.

  • Imagine

    “Ask what would happen if they could not cross back at all.”

    A question for you to ask out loud.

  • Tell the story

    “Ask your child to say out loud what happens next, in their own words.”

    A question for you to ask out loud.

No scores, no lessons: something to make up together. How to do it with or without us

For you, before you start

  • About half a minute to look at a drawing, about 10 minutes to play a story.
  • Every drawing and finished story is kept in their world, to play again.
  • Their next drawing is a new character.

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