Color a harvest pumpkin or a ghost, scan it with your phone, and watch it join a golden pumpkin farm or a moonlit haunted field on any TV. No app, no photo uploads, and no special gear.
Opens tomorrowSeasonal scenes · Sep 25 – Dec 2
Seasonal scenes come with their own printable characters. Hosts can pick one when they set up a room while its dates are open.
Live now · 65 days leftFall Harvest
A golden afternoon on the farm, with a red barn, rolling hills and a pumpkin patch. It works for harvest fairs, fall festivals and the Thanksgiving kids' table.
Characters to color
Opens tomorrowHalloween
A moonlit field below the house on the hill. Kids color pumpkins, ghosts and bats, then watch them float, flap and creep across the screen.
Characters to color
What is Draw2Life?
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
No setup beyond a printer and a screen. Most rooms are live in under five minutes.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Pricing
Try the real thing free, buy a one-time pass for an event, or go Pro for recurring rooms and your own branding.
Try it for real
No credit card needed
For one big day
5-pack $79 for event planners
For venues & pros
Rooms live while subscribed
Educator discount available
FAQ
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Print a template, color it in, and watch it come alive — free, with no app and no card. Set up a room in minutes.