🏝️ What's a scranimal?
Take an animal. Take a plant or a food. Now scramble them into one word and one creature. A rhinoceros and a rose? A broccoli and a lion? That's the idea behind Jack Prelutsky's book Scranimals (illustrated by Peter Sís), where a whole island is full of these mixed-up beasts, each with its own silly rhyming poem.
We can't print the book's poems here (they belong to the author!), so this studio does something better: you invent the scranimals. Ask Mr. Lehmkuhl if you'd like to read the real book.
🎯 Your mission: blend a word, draw a creature, collect rhymes, write a poem, and put it all on a Field Guide card. Earn 4 badges to unlock the Field Guide.
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📖 An example (written for this page, so it's ours to share)
Notice the pattern: lines 1 and 2 rhyme, lines 3 and 4 rhyme (AABB). The poem tells you what the creature looks like, what it does, and ends with a joke.
Word Blender
Pick an animal and a plant (or food). Watch the words collide!
🐾 Animal
🥦 Plant or food
How the blender works: it looks for letters where the end of the first word matches the start of the second, and overlaps them. If there's no match, it just squishes them together. Pick your favorite blend below, or type your own name.
Creature Maker
Build your scranimal from animal parts and plant parts.
🐾 Body
🥦 Plant parts
🎨 Body color
😮 Face
Rhyme Lab
Collect rhymes before you write. Poets do this!
Type a word you'll want at the end of a line (like nose, green, or sneeze). The lab finds words that rhyme. Save at least 4 rhyme pairs to earn the badge.
📝 My rhyme pairs (0)
Tap a rhyme above to save it as a pair with your word.
Poem Studio
Write a nonsense poem about your scranimal.
The recipe: at least 4 lines. Lines 1 & 2 rhyme, lines 3 & 4 rhyme (AABB). Use your scranimal's name. Tell us what it looks like, where it lives or what it eats, and end with something silly. Your rhyme pairs are right below the box.
Locked!
Earn all 4 badges to print your Field Guide card.
Field Guide Card
Your scranimal, officially discovered.
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🏝️ My island (0 scranimals)
Make another! Your saved creatures live here. Tap one to load it.