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Little Lines
Paper-first · parent-owned · ages 3–7

Keep every drawing.See what is growing.

Little Lines is the record of your child’s drawing years. Each paper drawing becomes a memory, a concrete growth marker, and one tiny idea for what to draw next.

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Maya’s Skill Timeline

3y 2m → 4y 0m

4 moments

  1. A person, in Maya’s own words

    Mar 14 · age 3y 2m

  2. First fully closed shape

    Jun 08 · age 3y 5m

  3. A person with a separate body

    Nov 22 · age 3y 10m

  4. First shared ground line

    Jan 19 · age 4y 0m

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Practice, from the latest drawing

“Try one small figure beside the tall one.”

The archive is not a shoebox. Every drawing makes the next piece of coaching more personal.

One small habit

Capture. Understand. Remember.

The whole loop is designed for the moment after a drawing lands on the table—not for another hour of screen time.

  1. 01
    Capture

    Paper to Memory Box in under ten seconds.

    Snap the drawing, save what your child said it was, and get back to the kitchen table.

  2. 02
    Understand

    Concrete observations. Never a grade.

    Little Lines notices closed shapes, joined forms, figure parts, and page arrangement—then suggests one tiny next move.

  3. 03
    Remember

    A timeline built from the drawings themselves.

    See first circles, first people, and first ground lines anchored to the exact picture where they appeared.

The irreplaceable part

“What did you say it was?”

Save their exact words with the picture. In ten years, “It’s Bosco, but he’s flying” will matter more than perfect metadata—and today it helps the coaching notice Bosco without guessing.

The Skill Timeline

The drawing years, in the drawings

Switch between two moments in Maya’s illustrative story. Little Lines keeps every observation attached to the picture that made it meaningful.

“That is you and the yellow thing is the windy sun.”

March 14 · age 3y 2m

Mama at the park

A head-form is almost closed, with two long lines descending as legs.

Almost-closed loopTwo deliberate linesA named person
Moment to remember
A form Maya calls a person
One tiny next step
Invite one short line for an arm.

Say this out loud

“Where should Mama’s arm reach?”

Illustrative product story. Stage is not ability; children know far more than they can draw.

Showing First drawing: A form Maya calls a person. A head-form is almost closed, with two long lines descending as legs.

What Little Lines notices

Six lenses. Zero grades.

A drawing can show new control in one area and nothing in another. That is why Little Lines never collapses a child into one score.

  • Line control

    Control comes before shape. A child who can stop a line where they meant to can draw anything next.

  • Shapes

    A closed circle is the doorway. Almost every drawable thing is built from closed shapes.

  • Putting shapes together

    Drawing a thing is really drawing shapes in a relationship. This is where pictures start.

  • Drawing people

    The tadpole person appears in every culture on earth at about the same age. It is one of childhood’s great universals.

  • Arranging the page

    When a child gives things a place to stand, they have started drawing a world instead of objects.

  • Choosing colors

    Colour starts as whatever was in reach and becomes a decision. The decision is the milestone, not the accuracy.

Always worth saying: stage is not ability. Children reliably know more than they can yet put on paper. Little Lines is not a screening or diagnostic tool.

Honest pricing

The price you see is the price you choose

No deposits, per-piece fees, or surprise invoice after a box ships. Start free; upgrade only when the growing archive is worth keeping whole.

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A real Memory Box, with a deliberately small coaching allowance.

  • 5 coached drawings each month
  • 1 child profile
  • 90-day drawing archive
  • Child’s words saved with every drawing
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$9.99per month

$79 per year after a 7-day free trial. Cancel before the trial ends and pay nothing.

  • All your children
  • Full drawing-years archive
  • Skill Timeline and milestones
  • Personalized tiny next steps
  • Keepsake-ready year views
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Printed keepsakes

Optional, openly priced, never sprung on you

  • Year Book

    $69

    A bound year of drawings, milestones, and the child’s own words.

  • Milestone Print

    $59

    A gallery-quality print of one drawing and the moment it marked.

  • Grandparent Quarterly

    $19 / quarter

    A seasonal printed digest, ready to post to someone who loves every line.

Built to hold childhood carefully.

Private by default is not a setting here. It is the shape of the product.

Read the safety & privacy promise
  • The parent owns the account; children never log in.
  • No public gallery, social feed, or advertising.
  • Uploads are not used to train models.
  • Location metadata is stripped before an image leaves the device.
  • A drawing can be exported or deleted by its parent.
  • Little Lines is creative coaching, never developmental screening.

Begin with one drawing

The first page of their drawing years is probably already on your fridge.

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