About Tiny Hands Play

Tiny Hands Play is a free collection of browser games for babies, toddlers and kids, made by one dad in his evenings. There are no ads, no accounts, no in-app purchases and nothing to install. You open the site, hand over the keyboard or the tablet, and play.

How it started

It started when my toddler discovered my computer keyboard and urgently needed to press every key. The first game I built, Kaboom Keys, was a safe way to let her mash the keyboard without wrecking my work.

Seeing how much she loved it, I went looking for other games we could play together. Most were either paid, packed with ads, or just not quite right for someone that small. So I kept building: a stacking game, a memory game, a piano with a lion teacher, a town to explore, and now eleven games in all, from keyboard smashing for one-year-olds up to mental-math tricks for ten-year-olds.

The rules I build by

• Free, and staying free. No paywall, no premium tier, no "unlock more levels".
• No ads. A toddler can't tell an ad from a game, so there are none.
• No accounts. Nothing to sign up for. Best scores and progress are saved on your own device.
• Nothing to break. Every game captures the keyboard while it runs, so a baby can mash freely without closing windows or sending emails.
• No game over for the little ones. Games for under-fives have no fail state. Older kids get gentle retries and lives, never a buzzer.

Privacy, in plain English

The site does not collect personal information about you or your child. There are no accounts and no forms in the games. The only measurement is anonymous page-view analytics (Vercel Web Analytics), which counts visits and which games are opened without using cookies or identifying anyone. Game progress and best scores are stored in your browser's local storage and never leave your device. There are no third-party ad or tracking scripts.

If you tip through the "Buy me a coffee" button, the payment is handled entirely by Stripe on their own page; this site never sees your card details.

What it runs on

Any modern browser on a phone, tablet, laptop or Chromebook. Most games support both keyboard and touch. You can add the site to your home screen (Share, then Add to Home Screen on iPhone and iPad; the install prompt on Android) for a full-screen experience, and the games keep working with a patchy connection once they have loaded once.

Credits

The emoji artwork is Microsoft Fluent Emoji, used under the MIT license. Everything else, code and design, is written by hand in plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no frameworks, which is why the site loads quickly on older tablets. The source is on GitHub.

Support the site

If Tiny Hands Play has given you a few minutes of peace, two things help enormously: share it with another parent or a teacher, or buy me a coffee. Tips cover hosting and let me keep it ad-free.

Get in touch

Feedback, bug reports and game ideas are always welcome through the feedback link at the bottom of the homepage. Many of the games' best fixes came from parents writing in.

— Mauro, a dad