Turtle Art Studio
P4 to P6L1. The Merlion's Pedestal
Draw a closed square with side 100, finishing on the same heading it started.
4 lines drawn
Budget: repeat is locked on this level. Feel the copy-paste pain that Level 2 removes.
Watch out for
Stopping after the third turn. The square looks finished, but the turtle is left facing North. A square is four sides AND four turns.
Every word the turtle knows
- forward 100
- back 50
- right 90
- left 90
- penup
- pendown
- pen red
- pen hue 120
- penwidth 3
- home
- repeat 4 { ... }
- set angle = 90
- define star { ... }
Colours: black, grey, white, red, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue, purple, pink, brown. Write a defined name on its own line to run it.
Turtle Art Studio
Write a few lines of turtle code and watch a picture draw itself, then save it or send a remix link. Suits P4 to P6. Teaches loops, angles, variables and naming your own commands.
What this teaches, and who it suits
Turtle Art Studio is a free coding playground for Primary 4 to Primary 6. Children type short commands (forward, right, repeat, define) and a turtle draws the picture line by line. Twelve levels build from a single square up to nested loops and named procedures, with a line budget that makes copy and paste stop working, so a loop becomes the obvious answer. Angles are real geometry here: the turns in a closed shape always add up to 360 degrees. Finished pictures can be saved as an image or shared as a remix link that opens with the code, not just the result.
It is free to play, needs no account and runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. Nothing a child makes is stored on our servers: a shared link carries the work itself.