Jazz's Studio

Jazz’s Studio is the second app in the playground, and the first for older children, about seven and up. It was made for Jazz, who is ten, and your child can use all of it, with their own name on everything and, if you like, their own character in place of Jazz’s.

Where to find it

• In Sukhi Play it comes in the download but is not switched on, so a younger child’s screen stays as it was. Open the grown-up screen, go to the catalogue, and add Studio. It works with no internet at all.
• On any other device open sukhiplay.com/playground/studio in a browser. Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.

What your child can do

• Stationery: in five groups: stickers (of their characters, or in their pattern), a diary cover and pages, name labels and gift tags, a week planner and to-do lists, and bookmarks and door signs. Each sheet keeps its own colours, lettering and pattern, and a sheet with several people on it has each one’s own name, changed right there.
• Make from a box: pick a pencil pot, desk tidy, notebook cover or treasure box, measure the tube or box, and print a wrap that fits it, with the steps.
• My brand: a brand for each person, in four styles (badge, stamp, ribbon and tag), business cards, and logo stickers cut out round the logo. A diary with someone on it carries their brand.
• Play: a poster of their name, secret messages in a real code with a key for a friend, a story page built from who, what happens and where, a doodle pad, and invite cards with a code a friend’s phone opens the studio from.
• My makes: their prints, kept to print again, and a shelf of the things they made.
• Make it yours: their character and name, and the look of the studio: its colours, lettering and background. Start again is a tab of its own, and asks first.

Printing

Every sheet is drawn on A4 to the millimetre, and prints on one page. In a browser, print wraps for Make from a box at actual size, not “fit to page”, so they fit the thing they were measured for; each wrap has a line that should measure exactly 5 cm, so a ruler can check.

On an iPad, Safari prints the page’s address and the date at the top and bottom and always prints a little smaller than actual size, so the sheet is fitted into what is left. That is fine for stickers and planners; for a wrap, measure the 5 cm line.

Inside Sukhi Play there is no print window. A print window can save to a file or open another program, both ways out of the locked screen, so Sukhi Play sends the page straight to the computer’s default printer instead, and the studio tells your child when it has gone, or to ask a grown-up if the printer did not answer. Two presses a few seconds apart print once.

Only apps Sukhi Play made itself can print. A website that tries to print is refused.

The first time, and their characters

The first time the studio opens it asks two things, either of which can be skipped: their name, so it says hello to them, and their character: Jazz, her brother Sukhi, or one of their own. Start again asks again.

In Make it yours, the list at the top is every character, each switched on or off. Add a character is someone new: it takes a picture of a character on one plain colour, cuts the background out on the device, finds the face so stickers and labels frame it, and then asks who this is, their name or “It’s me”. Each person then has Add a picture for more of them, and their name goes with them onto their stickers, labels and tags. Pictures can be nudged if the face is framed badly, or removed.

The studio has a For grown-ups guide that walks through making one from a photo with Google Gemini, with the prompts that made Jazz’s. When you use Gemini the photo goes to Google; nothing you add to the studio leaves the device.

Inside Sukhi Play no page may open a file browser, so there a grown-up copies the picture and presses Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac) in Make it yours.

Prints to use again

After something is printed, the studio asks whether to keep it in My makes and what to call it; there is also a Keep in My makes button beside Print. It keeps the print’s settings, not a picture of it: which sheet, the words, which character, and its colours, lettering and pattern. Open puts the tool back exactly as it was, to print again or change something first. A kept print keeps its colours even if the studio’s change later.

Photos and their things

My makes also keeps each thing they made: its name, a note, and a photo. In a browser a photo can be taken or chosen. Inside Sukhi Play, which never opens a file browser, a grown-up copies a photo and presses Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac) on My makes, or drags one onto the photo box. Doodles from the doodle pad keep their picture everywhere.

Everything is kept on that device only: nothing is uploaded, and there is no account. Clearing the browser’s data for the site, or using a private window, clears it too.

On a phone or tablet

To keep it on the home screen:

• iPhone and iPad: open it in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
• Android: open it in Chrome, open the menu, then Add to Home screen.
• A computer: in Chrome or Edge, click the install icon at the end of the address bar.

It then opens full screen like any other app, and keeps working without internet once it has been opened once.