Paper Fish
Colour a fish
Every sheet is a real printed fish outline — a clownfish, a shark, a whale, a manta ray. Children colour it however they like. Outside the lines is fine.
Paper, crayons, and a phone
Colour a fish.
Colour a fish.
Watch it swim.
A child colours a printed fish, someone photographs it, and a moment later the drawing is alive — swimming in a 3D aquarium that belongs to their table.
No appNo accountNothing to install
How it works
Three steps, and the third one is the good part
The whole thing happens at the table, with things that are already there: a sheet of paper, a few crayons, and the phone in somebody's pocket.
Take a photo
Scan the code on the table and point the camera at the sheet. The drawing is lifted off the paper and wrapped around a 3D fish, right there on the phone.
Watch it swim
One tap and it swims off into the table's aquarium — on the phone, on a tablet propped against the wall, or on a big screen in the room.
The aquarium
A living scene, and every fish in it was drawn by somebody at the table
Not a filter and not a sticker: a real 3D scene with light, depth and animated fish, and the child's colouring is the skin on the fish. It runs in the browser on any phone.
Any screenPhones, tablets, a TV on the wall. One tap shows a QR that opens the same aquarium on a bigger screen.
Feed themSprinkle food and the whole shoal comes over. It is the button children find first.
Change the backdropSunlit sand, a reef, a picture of your own. The fish keep swimming while the scenery changes behind them.
Ready-made fish tooToo young to colour? Release a finished fish from the set with one tap and join in anyway.
Every table gets its own
One sheet, every table
Every colouring sheet carries your logo and one code for the whole place. Scan it, pick your table, and that table's aquarium opens — nobody else's fish, no sign-up, no waiting. Sit down, colour, scan, swim.
When the party leaves, whoever clears the table taps it on your team's phone page. One tap, and the aquarium is empty and ready for the next family. Nothing carries over.
- Works with the tables you already have — any number of them
- Sheets with your logo, ready for any office printer
- Clearing a table is for your team only; guests never see it
For your team
The whole room on one phone screen
A console made for a phone held one-handed, standing up. Which tables are playing right now, how long they have been at it, and the numbers for today — no training needed.
Quiet by design
Nothing is asked of anyone
No app
It opens in the camera app that is already on the phone. Nothing to download, nothing to update.
No account
No email, no phone number, no sign-up. Possession of the table's code is the whole key.
No personal data
The photo is used to make the fish and for nothing else. There is nothing to track and nobody to profile.
Gone when the table is cleared
A child's drawing lives in the aquarium while the family is there, and is deleted when the table is cleared for the next one.
Where it works
Anywhere a child is waiting and there is a screen
A printed sheet marks a spot — a table, a corner, a waiting room. The screen it faces is the aquarium. If the place has no tables, the spot is wherever the crayons are.
- Restaurants, cafés and pubsThe food is fifteen minutes away and the table is already set.
- Hotel lobbies and breakfast roomsCheck-in, and the long half hour before the room is ready.
- Waiting roomsPaediatric clinics, dentists, opticians, family practices.
- Hair salons and barbersA parent's appointment, a child's chair beside it.
- Shopping centres and shopsA kids' corner that does something, on the screen already there.
- Museums, libraries and community centresAn interactive colouring exhibit with no installation to build.
- Weddings, birthdays and family daysOne screen, one afternoon, every child's fish in the same water.
- Kids' clubs and holiday campsA quiet activity for the first ten minutes and the last.
You may have seen the idea as a museum installation or a shopping-centre attraction — a wall where children's drawings come to life. Paper Fish is that, on a screen you already own: nothing to build, nothing to hire, nothing to hand to the child but a crayon.
Do we need tables?
No. A sheet marks a spot, and the spot can be a table, a corner with a box of crayons, or a whole waiting room sharing one screen. Restaurants happen to have a lot of spots; a clinic has one.
What do we need to have?
A screen that can show a web page — a television with a browser, or any screen with a small computer behind it — a printer for the colouring sheets, and your guests' own phones. There is no hardware to buy and nothing to install on anything.
How does a child's drawing get into the aquarium?
A grown-up points the phone's camera at the code on the sheet, takes a photo of the finished fish, and it swims onto the screen within a few seconds. No app, no account, no sign-up.
What happens to the drawings afterwards?
They stay in the aquarium while the party is there. When the spot is cleared — one tap on your team's phone page — the water is empty for the next family. Nothing is kept.
Is this a kids' entertainment system for businesses, or a toy?
It is a service for places that host children, sold per venue. You get the printed sheets, the aquarium on your screen, and a phone page for your team that shows how every spot is doing. Parents and children get a fish.
Interested?
Leave a way to reach you, and we will
We set things up in person and bring the paper with us. Leave an email address or a phone number and we will get back to you to arrange a time to come and show you — fish and all.
Thank you — we will be in touch.
Usually within a day or two. In the meantime, the fish upstairs are still swimming.