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A Gift for Grandparents From Their Grandchild's Drawings

Grandparents get the second-best drawings, and the fridge keeps the originals. This turns the tables: every drawing their grandchild makes, exactly as the little artist drew it, on their own phone.

Photograph the drawings as they arrive and Feltip keeps each one, reads what is in it, and notices the cat that keeps coming back. We never redraw a single line, because a grandparent can spot which grandchild drew what from across the room, and that is what we keep.

Then you send one private link. No account, no app, and you can switch it off whenever you like.

When they visit, the drawings can go on an adventure together. Put a grandchild's characters in a short story and play it side by side: the child chooses what happens, and the one they finish can be a print for the grandparents' wall.

To start you send a photo of a drawing and the 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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