How to choose a colouring app for your child
Seven useful questions about ads, accounts, saving, purchases and the actual colouring experience.
Read the guide →The Made By Dad journal
Notes for creative families.
Practical thoughts on colouring, calmer creative screen time, children's apps and the small decisions behind Made By Dad.
Creative screen time
What makes screen time feel calm and creative?
It has less to do with a timer than what a child is actually doing, what the app asks from them and how easy it is to stop.
Read the note →Start here
Three useful reads.
No weekly publishing promise and no filler. The journal grows when there is something genuinely useful to add.
Six small ways to make more of a colouring page
Simple prompts for pencils, printables and conversations that can start with one blank page.
Read the ideas →Why the first Made By Dad app is a colouring book
How one familiar activity became the right place to begin a children's app studio.
Read the story →The journal will cover
Creative playColouring ideasParent perspectivesPrivacy by designMaking the appPrintables
Something to do now
Choose a page.
Find the pencils.
Try one of six free Made By Dad colouring pages, ready to print at home.