Digital Learning Student & Family Hub

Draw with AI – AutoDraw 🎨🤖

What it is: A smart drawing tool that helps young learners turn simple sketches into polished art using AI.

Instructions:
🖊️ Go to AutoDraw
🌼 Start by drawing a simple object (like a flower 🌸, house 🏠, or fish 🐟).
🤖 The AI will guess what you’re drawing and show suggestions at the top.
🎨 Click on the image that matches what you had in mind to complete your artwork.

🎯Task:
Practice shape recognition and fine motor skills. Choose a word (like "dog" or "tree") and try drawing it. Talk about the shapes that make up the object and how the AI helped improve your sketch.

Color and Learn with PBS Kids Coloring 🖍️📺

What it is: A bundle of art games with favorite PBS characters that helps with creativity and storytelling.

Instructions:
🌐 Visit PBS Kids Art Games
🖍️ Choose an activity—try a character you know!
🎨 Use the coloring tools to make it your own.
📢 Talk or write about what’s happening in the picture.

🎯 Task:
Color a picture and make up a story about what’s going on. Share your story with a friend or grown-up!

Pattern Maker with Google AI’s Emoji Kitchen 🔢😀

What it is: A fun way to combine emojis into silly, surprising designs. Helps kids explore creativity and visual patterns.

Instructions:
📱 On an Android device or desktop Chrome browser, open Emoji Kitchen.
😀 Choose two emojis to “mix.”
🎨 Look at the new emoji creations that appear!
🖍️ Draw your favorite emoji mix or use them to tell a story.

🎯Task:
Pick three mixed emoji and make a pattern (like ABAB or AAB). Draw it on paper and explain your pattern to a classmate or teacher.

Explore the World with Google Arts & Culture 🎨🌍

What it is: A way to explore amazing art, history, and culture from around the world! With Google Arts & Culture, you can visit famous museums, look at beautiful artwork, and even step inside famous places—all from your screen.

Instructions:
🌐 Visit Google Arts & Culture.
🎨 Choose a collection to explore, like animals in art, famous paintings, or ancient monuments.
🖼️ Tap on a picture to learn more about it, and look for cool details like colors or patterns.
🏰 Try the “360°” feature to feel like you’re really there inside the museum or a historical site!

🎯 Task:
While exploring, pick one piece of art that you like. Can you describe it with your favorite colors or shapes? What do you think the artist was trying to show?

Play with Sound on Chrome Music Lab 🎵💻

What it is: A fun website where kids can explore music through interactive experiments—like rhythms, melodies, and sounds!

Instructions:
🎧 Go to Chrome Music Lab.
👂 Click on different experiments like Rhythm, Song Maker, or Sound Waves.
🪘 Tap to make beats, move colors around to change sounds, and see how music works!
🎨 Try changing patterns or instruments and listen to how it changes the music.

🎯 Task:
Explore how different sounds, patterns, and instruments work together. Talk about loud vs. soft, fast vs. slow, and high vs. low!

Story Creator – ABCya! Story Maker 📖✍️

What it is: A drawing and writing tool that lets kids make their own digital storybook.

Instructions:
🖥️ Go to ABCya: Story Maker.
✏️ Draw a picture on the left side.
⌨️ Type a sentence or short story on the right.
📄 Print or save your story when you're done.

🎯 Task:
Create a story about your day, a favorite animal, or a made-up character. What happens first, next, and last?

Practice Typing with Typing.com or TypingClub ⌨️🖐️

What it is: Fun websites that help kids learn how to type using both hands and get familiar with the keyboard.

Instructions:
💻 Visit Typing.com or TypingClub.
👆 Start with beginner lessons—just follow the arrows and type the letters you see.
🎮 Some lessons feel like games, so have fun as you learn!
🎧 Use headphones if your lesson has sounds or instructions.

🎯 Task:
Practice using both hands to press the right keys. Focus on finger strength, hand coordination, and learning where each key lives on the keyboard!

Build with Shapes – Toy Theater’s Tangrams 🔷🟥🧩

What it is: A simple, interactive puzzle game where students use digital shapes to build animals, objects, and patterns. Great for early spatial reasoning and mouse skills!

Instructions:

🧠 Visit Toy Theater’s Tangram Puzzles.

👆 Click and drag shapes to match the puzzle outlines.

🧩 Rotate and flip shapes to make them fit.

🖼️ Try different puzzles—can you make the rabbit? The boat?

🎯Task:

Practice shape recognition, problem-solving, and mouse control.

→ Build at least two tangram puzzles. Then describe what you made using shape names and directional words like “above,” “next to,” or “flipped.”