Playroom Pop logo — a crayon drawing of a rainbow, sun and smiling faces

Made by a 4-year-old + her Dad

Big little ideas,
turned into songs.

She dreams up the characters, drawings, stories and wonderfully strange words. Dad helps turn them into real songs — with a little help from AI.

Watch Playroom Pop on YouTubeMeet the songs ↓
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Snuggles the kitten, drawn in crayon with a rainbow, stars and a ball of pink wool

Snuggles

A kitten, a pink ball of wool, one very big idea.

Not an app. Just a very enthusiastic playroom.

Crayon drawing of a girl, her dad and a cat under a rainbow, surrounded by stars, hearts and music notes

Whatever she imagines next might become a song.

Crayon drawing of Mingos, a bright pink flamingo, with a lobster and an ice cream in a child's hand-drawn scene

A very pink flamingo inspired by one very loved toy.

A song built around her favourite flamingo toy, complete with the wonderfully mispronounced words she uses at four years old.

The Mingos Dictionary

Flamingos
Mingos
Lobsters
Losbers
Contact lenses
Codlesters
Mint choc chip
Me Chon Chee
The story of Mingos →Watch Mingos →

It started with songs around the house.

She has always loved drawing, making up characters and turning almost anything into a song. Like most families with a four-year-old, our house is full of half-invented lyrics, strange names and stories that make perfect sense to her.

Recently, we realised AI could help us take those little ideas one step further. Instead of a song disappearing after breakfast, we could actually make it. She could hear her character sing. See an idea become artwork. Watch something that began in her imagination become real.

So we made Playroom Pop.

The goal isn't to let AI do the imagining. It's to show her what becomes possible when her imagination has better tools.

Human creativity first. Always.

  1. She imagines it

    Characters, drawings, toys, funny words, melodies and stories.

  2. We make it together

    Dad helps shape the idea and we use creative tools, including AI, to bring it to life.

  3. She sees what's possible

    Her idea becomes a song, an image or a little world she can share.

AI is likely to be part of the world our children grow up in. I want her to understand it early — but as a tool for her creativity, not a replacement for it. If she learns that the valuable bit is the idea, the taste, the imagination and the decisions she makes, then the technology simply gives her a bigger canvas.

Her imagination+new tools=more things she can make

Keeping the little things, too.

Part of Playroom Pop is simply keeping a record of this stage of childhood. One day Mingos will be flamingos, Losbers will be lobsters and Me Chon Chee will just be mint choc chip. For now, they get to live in a song.

Come and see what she dreams up next.

New songs arrive about as quickly as a 4-year-old can think of them.

Watch Playroom Pop on YouTube

Songs for playrooms, car journeys and dancing around the kitchen. Maybe less so for the parents.