How to draw a pumpkin
Three fat lobes, a curly stem, a leaf, and a vine — six steps, then animate it. A new guide lands every week.
The Spooky Season · Projects for kids 6–13
Art. STEM. Science.The spooky projects are ready.Skills that scarethe grown-ups.
Every week your kid picks a project, learns to harness AI, and makes something scary good.
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🎃 New spooky projects every Monday
Kids creating worldwide
The Spooky Season
The Spooky Season has begun.
Three projects made for Halloween night, and the shelf around them. Pick one this week. It's finished by Sunday.
Coming this seasonArt project
Direct a 9-Shot Scary Movie for Halloween Night
a scary movie in nine shots, starring their drawn monster, screened with the lights off
Coming this seasonSTEM project
Build a Haunted-House Hunt Your Family Plays on Halloween Night
a playable hunt through their own home, with their clues and a treat
Coming this seasonScience project
Publish a Creatures of the Night Notebook
an illustrated night notebook of the real animals behind Halloween
Art project
Make a Manga: My Pet Is Secretly a Superhero
your first manga issue — your real pet, secret powers
6 kids finished this
Art project
Make an Animated Movie from Your Drawings
a real multi-scene film, stitched from your own drawings
10 kids finished this
Art project
Direct “Pantheon Launch Day” in Ancient Greece
a real movie set in Ancient Greece — you cast it, shoot it, premiere it
6 kids finished this
STEM project
Create a Rescue Mission Game Other Kids Can Play
your own grid logic game — live for other kids to play
5 kids finished this
STEM project
Pick 5 Real Companies for Your $1M Fund
a real portfolio of companies you actually know
5 kids finished this
New spooky projects every Monday. Your kid picks; nobody assigns.
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The Spooky Season · Halloween night is October 31
Let the spooky season begin.
This October your kid directs a scary movie, builds a haunted-house hunt for the family to play, or publishes a field guide to the creatures of the night. One project a week, ready for Halloween night.
New season · September to NovemberDemo Week · December 1–7
Halloween night is October 31. Plenty of time to make something.
No account, no card
Free Halloween drawings for every kid.
18 step-by-step Halloween drawing guides your kid can open today, whether or not you ever subscribe. Every one ends with the monster starring in a scary movie.
How to draw a ghost
A wavy hem, two big eyes, and a bow tie — six steps, then animate it. A new guide lands every week.
How to draw a vampire
A tall pointed collar, two tiny fangs, and a cape that swings — six steps, then animate it. A new guide lands every week.
How to draw a jack-o'-lanternHow to draw a scarecrowHow to draw a werewolfHow to draw a mummyHow to draw Frankenstein's monsterHow to draw a zombieAll 18 Halloween drawings →
The cards show the newest Halloween guides. This row updates as new ones land.
First scary movies
The first scary movie ever made was three minutes long. Your kid's will be sixty seconds.
Georges Méliès made it in 1896 with a bat, a cauldron, and a trick cut. The tricks haven't changed. The tools have.
“The House of the Devil”, 1896, directed by Georges Méliès. The first horror film.
The kid holding the flashlight isn't the one who's scared.
Steven Spielberg's first audience was his Boy Scout troop, around a campfire. His stories were the scariest ones. Then he made a nine-minute film for a merit badge. Every kid who makes a scary movie learns the same thing: the scare belongs to whoever builds it. That's the skill, and it carries.
NerveCreativityInitiativeTasteResourcefulnessAI fluency
Who they make with
Don't be afraid. Three thinking partners and a coach go with them.
Tek, Krea, and Brio give honest notes and hand the pen back, so the scare stays your kid's. Claire is your family's coach. Tell her how scary is right for your kid, and she sets the dial.
What they walk away with
A project a week. 52 scary-good projects a year.
By Halloween night your kid has a scary movie, a hunt the family played, a field guide, and a wall of monsters to show. By next Halloween, fifty-two finished things.
The portfolioSelected work
The Sneezing Ghost
Scary movie
The Haunted Hallway
Hunt the family played
Creatures of the Night
Field guide
Pumpkin, ghost, bat
Drawings
Oobleck
Experiment
The Silence Before
Film guide, finished
A portfolio to keepAn always-on AI crewA coach in ClaireA safe place to createA global community
This season's patches
Sprint MakerFinish one project this season.
Sprint LegendFinish five in the same season.
What is Kubrio
Kubrio is where kids 6–13 make scary-good projects with AI.
The making is the point. A scary movie, a haunted hunt, a field guide to the night: things that weren't possible for professional adults two years ago are what a kid finishes in a week, from age 6.
Kubrio is a subscription of ingenious AI projects for kids 6–13, where kids make real digital things — games, magazines, films, podcasts — and finish them. Its library of AI-native projects turns a week into a finished thing: publish a manga, direct a short film, launch a game other kids can play, run a $1M paper fund — with new projects added every week. Kids make them with three PhD-level AI thinking partners, and Claire, an AI coach parents shape with their own family's values. One family membership — $29 a week to make — covers all of it. Kids use AI to amplify their own initiative, not replace it. The hand stays the hero. And it's social by construction: a network of ingenious kids building alongside each other.
See what's insideOur mission
Scary-good projects that inspire kids to make things — until they find the thing only they could make.
$29 a week to make.
Playing, watching, reading, and listening are free.
Seven days to change your mind — one click, full refund.
Start this week. The first thing they make is ready for Halloween night.
Questions parents ask
Everything you're wondering
Spooky, never gory. Every spooky project has a fear dial with three settings: Spooky, Creepy, and Scary. The default follows your kid's age. Kids 6 to 9 get animation and pop-out surprises. Kids 10 to 13 can choose suspense. Gore doesn't exist at any setting, and nothing on Kubrio is photoreal. Your kid decides where the scare goes. The crew never writes it for them.
They open a studio app and make something real — direct a film, publish a magazine, run a paper fund, design a game. The AI crew helps them think and finish; the work stays theirs.
Plan on roughly 45–75 minutes a day, at their own pace. A new project opens every week and every project stays open — so there's no schedule to keep up with.
Yes. Kubrio is a kid-only, walled-garden studio — no open internet, no strangers, no ads. The AI is tuned for kids, with guardrails, and you can see everything your child makes.
Yes. Making is $29 a week for the whole family, or $99 a month, or $249 every 3 months. Cancel anytime, and everything your kids make stays theirs. Playing, watching, reading, and listening are free for every verified parent.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
— Plutarch
Give them the flashlight.