Creativity and problem-solving
There’s more than one way to build a spaceship.
A cardboard box, a toy that needs a bridge, a strange new paintbrush. Nookly helps your kid develop their individuality and creativity with personalized learning challenges and content.
LEARNING THROUGH PLAY
Learning is playThe future of learning is play
With AI as a creative partner, kids can become the poet, the writer and the artist.
They turn an idea into something they made while it still excites them. Play becomes the classroom.
Creativity that one-size-fits-all worksheets often miss finally gets room to grow, and the story stays theirs.
- Tell, draw, dictate
- Oral storytelling and mark-making come first for little ones.
- Characters and sequence
- Planners that help kids decide who, what and then what.
- Sentence building
- Starters and word banks that support without replacing their words.
- Revise kindly
- One question at a time: What could be clearer? What’s the funniest part?
Illustrative example
Start with what they love
Choose a starting point and see three different ways to explore it.
An adult asks · Cardboard inventions
“We have a stack of delivery boxes and a kid who wants to build a robot.”
Three possible outputs
- PrintableInvention blueprint sheet
- GameThree-materials challenge cards
- StoryThe Robot Who Was Made of Boxes
How Nookly works
Made in five stepsFrom child to finished thing, in five steps.
Step one
First, Nookly gets to know the child.
Before anything is made, you tell Nookly who this child actually is — how they look, who lives in their house, the friends and pets they talk about, and what they are obsessed with this month. Everything Nookly creates later is built from this one profile.
Set up once. Reused in everything after.
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Home
Mom, Dad and baby brother
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Best friend
Chloe from school
Zara, age 5
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Interests
Dinosaurs, puddles and the colour red
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Pets
Biscuit, a very slow tortoise
Step 1 of 5
Learning bundles
Creative bundlesBundles for inventive minds
Build and improve, design a pattern, invent a game, write a story, plan a costume. Bundles that give every idea somewhere to go. Explore more ready-made ideas in Nookly’s public children’s learning resource library, the Neighborhood.
Want one made just for your child? Subscribe below to personalize this bundle, or create your own around your child’s name, interests and goals.
Picture cards
Will It Float?
Sink-or-float picture cards that get kids predicting before they test.
Ages 5-6
Easy STEM Activities: Ramps, Floating and Bridges
Hands-on STEM built on the predict–test–observe loop. Kids guess, then try ramps, floating, and bridge-building for themselves, with picture cards and short videos modelling each experiment.
$7.99
What's in the membership?
Personalized stories and learning experiences, guided by their family. Work toward a learning goal with a personalized plan, or create something for the moment they’re in.
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Personalized creations
Stories, videos, songs, podcasts and activities made around the child in front of them.
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Learning plans
A personalized learning plan, called a Blueprint, supports a goal the family chooses and helps the kid achieve it.
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Resources to explore
Explore ready-to-use stories and activities, with personalization where available.
Ideas to try togetherIdeas for learning together
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Guide
The Box Is a Spaceship. What Else Could It Be?
Everyday ways to make room for more than one right answer.
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Comparison
Nookly vs Scratch vs LEGO: Three Ways to Give an Idea Somewhere to Go
Coding, bricks and personalized challenges, compared by fit.
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