Read it. Paint it. Love it.
Featured kit: Feathers for Lunch
A real picture book, a pre-traced canvas from the story, a tabletop easel and paints. Open it and go.
Read the story
A real, beautifully illustrated picture book.
Paint the scene
A pre-traced canvas from that same story, with real paint.
Zero screens, together
An hour they actually want to spend.
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Just Paint Kits
Holiday, seasonal and birthday designs. Pre-traced canvas, easel and paints.
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One story, two ways in
Your child reads the story, then paints a scene from it. The same material, met twice.
average rise in reading proficiency over three years in schools using arts-integrated reading instruction.
President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (2015), Turnaround Arts InitiativeIdeas worth trying at home
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A real, beautifully illustrated picture book.
Pre-traced canvas, real paint, zero prep.
An hour they actually want to spend.
Shop the kits kids beg to open
Every kit pairs a real storybook with a paint-along canvas — a screen-free hour, ready to go.
Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes
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Waiting for Wings
This read-and-paint kit pairs a picture book with hands-on painting, designed to give kids...
Feathers for Lunch
This read-and-paint kit pairs a picture book with hands-on painting, designed to give kids...
Want to know why this works?The thinking behind the kits
Growing Up On Autopilot
Screens fill the silence. AI finishes the sentence. Somewhere in there, kids stop practicing the parts of thinking that used to be automatic — noticing, struggling, making something themselves.
The skip-button generation
When AI can write it, draw it, and solve it, kids skip the part where they learn how.
Attention, fragmented
Feeds are built for a five-second swipe. Sustained, quiet focus doesn't get much practice.
Consuming, not making
Kids spend far more time watching someone else create than creating anything themselves.
No one handed us a playbook
Most parents want rules for tech and AI at home — few have ever seen one written down.
The Whole-Brain Approach
Schools using arts-integrated reading instruction saw a 13% rise in reading proficiency over three years — we built every kit to pair a story with hands-on art, designed to give early readers more ways into the book.
President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (2015), Turnaround Arts Initiative
Build the analytical side
Reading, reasoning, sequencing, language — the facts-and-logic half of a whole brain.
Build the creative side
Art, feeling, intuition, music — the half that AI can't practice for a child.
Hands before screens
A skill has to be struggled through with a body and a brush before a shortcut means anything.
Guided, not banned
The goal isn't zero tech. It's teaching kids to judge when to use it — and when not to.
Where We Are Heading
Three phases, one thesis: give kids real practice thinking and making, before we hand them the tools that think and make for them.
Read & Paint Kits
Hands-on reading + art kits, built on one bet: that kids will choose a brush over a screen when it's this good.
Parent Resource Library
Plain-language guides, conversation starters, and a screen-time framework families can actually use at home.
Teach Your Kids About AI
An age-by-age curriculum that teaches kids to use AI as a tool, not a crutch — coming to schools and families.
Start At Home
We're writing these now. Ask us, and we'll share each one as it's ready.
The Screen-Time Conversation Starter
Six questions to open the topic without a fight.
The Productive Struggle Checklist
How to tell when help is helping — and when it's not.
The Age-By-Age AI Guide
What's reasonable to let a 6, 10, or 14 year-old do with AI.
Read & Paint At-Home Guide
Bring the classroom kit experience home in one afternoon.
Teach Your Kids About AI
Our next chapter: a curriculum being developed for classrooms and families that teaches kids how AI actually works, where it gets things wrong, and when to put it down and think for themselves.
- How AI actually works, explained for kids
- Spotting AI-generated writing, art, and video
- When to ask AI for help — and when not to
- Using AI honestly in schoolwork
Bring Better Brains To Your School
Start with a Read & Paint fundraiser — the first step on the roadmap.
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