Get Crafty!

This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Animate Me!
Children can create fun, 3D animations and bring them to life just like the movies! Make a character or use a pre-built one and by using simple controls bring it to life to jump, walk, run, talk and more!

Arty Mouse Tracing
In Arty Mouse Tracing, Arty Mouse and his colorful friends engage, enthuse, and empower little learners, helping to fast-track them by developing their motor skills and confidence. Covering a selection of tracing-related skills including tracing vertical, horizontal, and curved lines to create pictures, letters, numbers and more!

Betsy Ross
Find out how Betsy Ross and her design for the American flag changed the course of history. Designed to provide children with the perfect story time experience! Every FarFaria ebook includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and the Common Core Reading Level independently measured using the Lexile framework.

Blox 3D Junior
Blox 3D Junior is a fun and easy way for kids to learn 3D modelling. Create beautiful objects in a simple and intuitive manner using tap and pull. Blox has been designed to develop children's creativity and visualization skills. Unique turntable mode rotates and builds 3D models as a teaching tool.

Caterpillar Creative Play
Budding artists can draw, paint, color, design and create in unique ways using templates of favorite Eric Carle characters including The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear and many more!

Clay Creatures
Do you like making things out of clay? Marvie does too! She’s made a little Marvie out of clay. Watch as balls of clay become clay creatures! What kind of creature would you make out of clay?

Coloring Picture Book
Color the picture step by step to create beautiful results. This is a good activity to calm nerves, improve fine motor skills and learn how to choose the right colors.

Create Your Own Puppets - Bea Unicorn
Bea and her friend Tyler are crafting their own cool puppets for their cardboard tube puppet show! Grab some cardboard tubes, paper, glue, and whatever else you like to make your own unique puppets at home!

Draw Your Own Comic Strip Craft Activity
It's Craft Time with Air and Space! Create your own comic strip adventure story! Join museum educator Ann Caspari as she demonstrates how to draw a simple comic strip and create your own space adventure story.

Duckie Deck Bird Houses
Here's a chance for kids to design, build and decorate stylish pads that will give their winged friends something to sing about!

Duckie Deck Trash Toys
It's time to go green! Harness the potential of trash by using tossed-aside tidbits to produce creative toys. Trash Toys is a fun way to teach kids about upcycling, recycling, restoring and reusing materials that they find all around them. You'll be astonished by all the possibilities that are hidden in things that we normally label as trash or junk.

How to Make a Paper Flower
Marvie has been busy making paper flowers! They’re pretty like real flowers, but you don’t have to water them! Get crafty and follow along with Marvie and learn how to make your own paper flowers.

Make a Moon Mobile Craft Activity
Join Museum Educator Ann Caspari and learn how to make mobile model of the planet and its Moon.

Make a Planet Game Craft Activity
Planet play! It's Craft Time with Air and Space. Join museum educator Ann Caspari as she demonstrates how to create a solar system game using construction paper and recycled jar or bottle lids.

Make It: Fuzzy Magnets
Fun easy to make crafts, recipes, experiments, and skits all made by Highlights kids!

Make Your Own Bubbles Craft Activity
Do you like blowing bubbles? Get some dish soap, water, and corn syrup and join museum educator Ann Caspari as she demonstrates how to make bubble stuff at home. Then try out some different household items to see if you can blow bubbles with them.

My lil' Toolbox
Children will learn to build a small house, a table or even a plane! Learn how to use basic tools like a hammer, saw, screwdriver and more.

Qixel Animate
Make stylish animated pixel art loops in 2 or 3 frames! Choose from 3 frame speeds, add music and create your own designs and characters while watching them come to life with animation!

Sid the Science Kid: Reused Robot
Sid the Science Kid finds out that you don't always have to throw trash away. Speakaboos’ parent app, HOMER, is a proven early learning program that builds personalized learning plans for children ages 2-8 - complete with stories like this!

Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Hand Drawn Selfies
Self-portraits are images that look outward and inward. In this activity, everyone will create a hand drawn selfie to explore self identity and experiment with what represents the person that others see.