Creative Toys

Google made a bunch of tiny music experiments and put them on the internet for free. Song Maker, Rhythm, Spectrogram, Kandinsky, Harmonics. Each one teaches you something about sound by letting you play with it.

Draw something in 20 seconds and a neural network tries to guess what it is. Google trained it on millions of doodles. It is shockingly good at recognizing your terrible drawings.

Drop grains of colored sand to create layered landscapes. Pick colors, pour them out, watch them pile up. Oddly therapeutic. Oddly beautiful. You will lose 30 minutes here.

Create your own Jackson Pollock drip painting by moving your mouse across the canvas

Create your own Piet Mondrian-style geometric art by clicking and dragging

A fluid simulation painting app. Draw with physics-based fluids in your browser.

Collection of beautiful interactive painting experiments including sand, symmetry, and zen garden

Type letters on your keyboard. Each letter triggers a different drum sample. Type words. Type sentences. Type your name. Everything becomes a beat.

A drum machine that runs entirely in your browser. Create beats, layer samples, and make music with zero setup.

Digital Turkish paper marbling art on iOS. Swirl colors into patterns the way artists have for centuries.

An interactive canvas where your mouse trail grows into organic, plant-like patterns

Make music with strangers in real time. Each person gets a colored dot and a different instrument. Move your mouse and create sounds together. Multiplayer music that actually works.