Made by a real architect · ages 3–11

Every city starts on a kitchen table.

Printable activity books where children measure their rooms, fold paper towns and find out that a building is a promise to the people inside it.

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  • 3 levels on every page
  • 1:50 real architect’s scale
  • 0 wrong answers

Our story

A little pencil with a big idea

  1. Chapter 1

    The pencil

    Archie is a small orange pencil who believes every child is already an architect. He was drawn by an architect who spent years designing schools, chapels, sports halls and family homes, and kept noticing the same thing: children understand buildings with their hands first.

  2. Chapter 2

    The table

    So Archie Studio makes pages you can walk, measure, cut and fold. A floor plan becomes a treasure map. A cereal box becomes a town tower. The walk to school becomes a sense walk, and the kitchen table becomes a studio.

  3. Chapter 3

    The town

    Page by page, a town grows: castles and saunas, a library with robots, a church built from logs by its own village. Each building tells a story about people, light and the land it stands on. Now it is your turn to add one.

The shop

Books to print, cut, fold and keep

Instant PDF downloads in A4 and US Letter. Print at home as often as you like, for your family or your class.

Printed books

The same books, bound and ready on Amazon

Our printed books are made by Amazon’s print-on-demand service. Each copy is printed when someone orders it, so there is no warehouse full of books waiting and no leftover stock to throw away.

Full-colour paperbacks, 8.5 × 11 in, with a blank page behind every cut-out page, so scissors never spoil the next activity. A hardcover collection is in the making: Amazon prints hardcovers from 75 pages, so we are gathering three journeys into one big book.

  • Cover of Around the World with Archie
    Around the World with Archie28 pages · ages 4–7 · paperback, full colour
    On Amazon soon
  • Cover of Around Finland with Archie
    Around Finland with Archie28 pages · ages 4–7 · paperback, full colour
    On Amazon soon
  • Cover of Around Helsinki with Archie
    Around Helsinki with Archie28 pages · ages 4–7 · paperback, full colour
    On Amazon soon
  • Cover of Junior Architect Studio · Complete Book
    Junior Architect Studio · Complete Book28 pages · ages 6–11 · paperback, full colour
    On Amazon soon

What we care about

Four things in every book

Architecture

Real plans, real scale, real words. Children read a floor plan the way architects do, measure their rooms with a tape and learn that 1 square can mean 50 centimetres.

Kids first

Big shapes for small hands. A 2–5 minute “do it first” task on every page gets bodies moving before pencils do, and every page ends with a question that has no wrong answer.

Added value

One book grows with your child. Three levels on every page, Explorer, Builder and Master Builder, so siblings and whole classes can work side by side.

Nature & care

Good buildings let the light in and leave room for trees. Our pages are digital first: nothing travels in a truck, and you print only the pages you use.

Nature & sustainability

Leave room for the trees

A good building knows where the sun rises.
It keeps out the cold and lets in the light.
It leaves room for trees, and for the people who sit under them.

We try to make things the same way.

  • Digital firstA download travels without a truck, a box or a plastic bag.
  • Print only what you usePick the pages you need. Sketch on the back of the rest.
  • Printed on demandOur paperbacks are printed one at a time, when they are ordered.
  • Made from what you haveGlue a model onto an old cereal box. Use the leftovers for a city.
  • Nature on every pageSense walks, sunlight, trees on the plan and architects who built with wood and light.

Coming soon

Wonky Town things

Little houses to carry around: mugs, t-shirts, keychains and more, in the same flat, bright Wonky Town style.

Soon

Wonky Town mug

For grown-up architects’ morning coffee and kids’ hot cocoa.

Soon

Little house t-shirt

Kids and adult sizes, the red roof right over your heart.

Soon

House keychain

A tiny flat house for the keys to your real one.

Soon

Library tote bag

Big enough for books, crayons and a cereal-box model.

Soon

My Plan poster

A blueprint print for the room where ideas happen.

Soon

Sticker sheet

Archie, little houses and a gold star for every finished page.

For grown-ups

Good questions

How does a digital download work?

After checkout you receive two PDF files: one in A4 (metric) and one in US Letter (feet and inches). Print them at home or at school at 100% / actual size. Pages with a scale have a small print check bar.

Which ages are the books for?

Ages 3–6 colour and trace, ages 4–7 cut, glue and collect, ages 6–11 measure, design and build. Most books for older children have three levels on every page, so brothers and sisters can share one book.

Can I use the books in my classroom?

Yes. Every printable is licensed for personal, family and single-classroom use. Please do not resell, share or upload the files.

When can I buy a printed book?

The paperbacks are being prepared for Amazon. The “On Amazon” buttons in the shop switch on as soon as each book is live.

Who makes Archie Studio?

An architect with years of experience in public buildings and family homes. Every page is designed, drawn and checked by hand, and the facts in every book are checked against reliable sources.