Kids’ drawings come alive and swim on the big screen
Color a printed paper fish, scan it with your phone, and watch it swim into a shared aquarium on any TV. No app, no photo uploads, no special gear.
Print at home, color with crayons, scan, and it swims. Works on any TV with a browser.
What is Draw2Life?
A living aquarium, drawn by the kids in the room
Draw2Life is a web app that turns a child’s colored paper drawing into an animated creature that swims into a shared scene on any screen. Hand out printed templates — fish, octopus, seahorse — let kids color them, scan each one from a phone, and the whole room fills with their artwork in seconds. Perfect for birthday parties, classrooms, libraries, restaurants, and museums.
How it works
Three steps, start to swimming
No setup beyond a printer and a screen. Most rooms are live in under five minutes.
- 1
Print & color
Print a free template on any home printer and color it in with crayons or markers. Each sheet has corner markers so the phone can read it later.
- 2
Scan with a phone
Open the room link and point the camera at the drawing. The phone straightens the page and cuts out the art on-device — no app to install, no photo uploaded.
- 3
Watch it swim
Seconds later the creature wiggles to life in the aquarium on the TV, textured with the child’s own colors, swimming alongside everyone else’s.
Who it’s for
One screen, every kind of room
Birthday parties
Keep a room full of kids busy and amazed. Print a stack of templates, let them color, and watch their fish take over the living-room TV. The activity and the entertainment in one.
Classrooms & libraries
A calm, screen-time-light activity for story time and summer reading. Turn on the manual approval queue so a teacher okays every drawing, and keep every guest anonymous.
Restaurants & museums
Give the kids’ corner a reason to come back. Put your own logo on the display and the print packets, run rooms all day, and rely on a moderation queue for public screens.
Privacy & safety
No photos ever leave the phone
Draw2Life is built for children’s drawings, so privacy isn’t fine print. The camera frame is processed on the phone itself — only the flat, cut-out drawing is sent on, never a photo of your child.
- On-device processingThe phone straightens and crops the artwork locally. There is no raw-photo upload and no photo storage to breach.
- No guest accountsGuests scan anonymously — no sign-in, no email, no tracking or ad SDKs on guest-facing pages.
- Everything expiresRooms and creatures delete themselves automatically after the event, and a host can purge a room instantly.
- Moderation built inEvery drawing is checked before it appears, with a one-tap kill switch and an optional teacher approval queue.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade for the party.
Try the real thing free, buy a one-time pass for an event, or go Pro for recurring rooms and your own branding.
Free
Try it for real
No credit card needed
- 1 active room
- 4-hour room
- Up to 25 creatures
- 3 free templates
- Small watermark on the display
Event Pass
For one big day
5-pack $79 for event planners
- 1 room for 48 hours
- Up to 500 creatures
- Full template catalog
- No watermark
- Email support
Pro
For venues & pros
Rooms live while subscribed
- 5 concurrent rooms
- 500 creatures per room
- Premium scenes & templates
- Custom logo on display & print packets
- Priority support
Educator discount available
FAQ
Questions parents and teachers ask
Does it work on my TV?
Yes. Draw2Life runs in any modern web browser, so any TV, projector, laptop, or tablet that can open a web page works as the shared display. Smart TVs with a built-in browser open the room link directly; for other TVs, cast a laptop or plug in a streaming stick. There is no app to install and no special hardware to buy.
Are photos of my kid uploaded anywhere?
No. The camera frame is processed entirely on the phone. Draw2Life finds the printed markers, straightens the page, and cuts out just the colored drawing — only that flat artwork cutout ever leaves the device. There is no raw-photo upload and no photo storage to breach, and rooms and creatures delete themselves automatically after the event.
What do I need to print?
A free coloring template and a regular printer. Each template prints on a single sheet of letter or A4 paper from any home inkjet or laser printer — black-and-white is fine. The printed markers in the corners let the phone read and align the drawing, so print at 100% scale and do not crop the edges.
How many kids can join one room?
As many as you like — there is no cap on how many phones scan into a single room. The limit is the number of creatures that can live in the scene at once: 25 on the Free plan and 500 on Event Pass and Pro. For a typical birthday party or classroom, that is far more than enough.
Does it need an app?
No app, ever. Hosts create a room in a browser, and guests scan their drawing from their phone's web browser by opening the room link — no download, no account, no sign-in. Everything runs on the open web, which is why it works the same on iPhone and Android.
Is it safe for a classroom or public display?
Yes. Every drawing passes a moderation check before it appears, and hosts get a one-tap kill switch to remove any creature from the screen instantly. Schools can switch on a manual approval queue so a teacher approves each drawing before it swims in. Guests stay anonymous — no accounts, no email, no tracking on guest pages.
Bring the aquarium to your next event
Print a template, color it in, and watch it swim — free, with no app and no card. Set up a room in minutes.