Kids’ drawings come alive on the big screen
Color a printed character, scan it with your phone, and watch it join a shared animated world on any TV. No app, no photo uploads, and no special gear.
Print at home, color with crayons, scan, and it comes alive. Works on any TV with a browser.
What is Draw2Life?
A shared animated world, drawn by everyone in the room
Draw2Life is a web app that turns a child’s colored paper drawing into an animated character that joins a shared scene on any screen. Hand out printed templates — from pumpkins and ghosts to fish and octopuses — let kids color them, scan each one from a phone, and the room fills with their artwork in seconds. Perfect for birthday parties, classrooms, libraries, restaurants, and museums.
How it works
Three steps from paper to screen
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 come alive
Seconds later the character moves into the scene on the TV, carrying the child’s own colors and joining everyone else’s creations.
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 characters 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 15 creatures
- Full template catalog
- Small watermark on the display
Event Pass
For one big day
5-pack $79 for event planners
- 1 room for 48 hours
- Up to 100 creatures
- Full template catalog
- No watermark
- Email support
Pro
For venues & pros
Rooms live while subscribed
- 5 concurrent rooms
- Unlimited creatures (newest 1,000 kept)
- Full template catalog
- 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. What varies by plan is how many creations the room holds: 15 on the Free plan, 100 on an Event Pass, and effectively unlimited on Pro. The display shows the newest 35 at once (Free rooms stay under that), so the scene never gets too crowded. 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. Hosts get a one-tap kill switch to remove any creation from the screen instantly, and schools can switch on a manual approval queue so a teacher approves each drawing before it appears. Submitted names are automatically filtered for profanity. Guests stay anonymous — no accounts, no email required to participate.
Bring drawings to life at your next event
Print a template, color it in, and watch it come alive — free, with no app and no card. Set up a room in minutes.