Star Kids Lab

For parents

Star Kids Lab is a free creative learning website for children aged about 6 to 12. Your child draws their own hero, then takes it through stories, coding, maths and science.

What your child does

  • Draws a hero (or photographs one drawn on paper) and writes a short story in three scenes.
  • Turns the story into a cartoon movie, a comic, or a picture book you can print.
  • Solves coding missions with blocks and maths missions with a rocket, and tries science experiments.
  • Makes music, and plays a few calm arcade games with their own hero.

What they learn

  • Coding ideas: sequences, turning, planning, loops and debugging.
  • Maths: equal groups, skip counting, multiplying, sharing and dividing, and "Big Ideas" like algebra as toys.
  • Science: colour mixing, predicting, and physics (friction, magnets, levers, sound, light and gravity).
  • Writing and reading: their own story, in English, Arabic or Urdu, read aloud with your device's own voices (Urdu voices are missing on some devices).

Safety and privacy

  • Free, with no ads and no tracking or advertising cookies.
  • No account is needed. Without one, what your child makes stays on their own device, unless a grown-up turns on story sharing.
  • Not a social network: children can't find strangers or message each other. The only shared play is an optional Comet Racer race with friends who type the same room code: nicknames only, no chat.
  • An AI helper (Claude, by Anthropic) gives ideas only when your child presses a ✦ button or uses the optional chat. Email addresses, phone numbers and links are removed first, and a safety check looks at every message.
  • An optional parent account (Google, or email and password) lets your child log in on another device with a family code, the face picture they picked and a PIN. You can turn the chat off, and see, download or delete your family's data at any time.

Healthy screen time

  • Games suggest a stretch break after a while.
  • Most activities are short: one mission, one scene, one experiment.
  • Much of what children make can be printed and finished on paper.
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