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PaintTots
Finger painting for ages 3–5 with real paint mixing: put two paint friends together and they make what real paint makes (blue and yellow make green), then paint with your finger, alone or two fingers at once with a grown-up. No right picture, nothing to score. On-device; nothing leaves your device.
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Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning.
Mentored by Splodge
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Meet the cast
PaintTots has a tiny friendly crew of paint friends who make colour-mixing something a three-year-old can hold: Splodge the white makes any colour lighter and softer; Scarlet the red shows that two colours hugging make a brand-new one; Goldie the yellow adds one dab at a time and stops to look; and Bluebell the blue shows there are no mistakes in paint - keep going and see what happens. Each friend shows ONE gentle idea about paint; everything is spoken, and there is no way to lose.
Splodge
Lighter with white - Splodge the white paint, who makes any colour lighter and softer: a little dab of white turns red to pink and blue to sky
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Scarlet
Two colours make a new one - Scarlet the red paint, who hugs a friend in the mixing well and out comes a colour neither could make alone: red and yellow make orange, red and blue make purple
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Goldie
One dab at a time, then look - Goldie the yellow paint, who adds a little, stops, and looks at what changed before adding more
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Bluebell
No mistakes in paint - Bluebell the blue paint, whose muddy brown mix is not wrong but new: keep going and see what it can become
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What's inside
Learning goal
Finger painting for ages 3–5 with real paint mixing: put two paint friends together and they make what real paint makes (blue and yellow make green), then paint with your finger, alone or two fingers at once with a grown-up. No right picture, nothing to score. On-device; nothing leaves your device.
Mentored by Splodge — no data leaves the device.
How PaintTots handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages