Poloppo is a company with a mission to encourage creativity in children everywhere. One of the simplest ways we can do this is by promoting children's art. The refrigerator is a good start, but we go a step further. Put your child's artwork on a t-shirt and you're getting the message across that their creative efforts are respected and admired. This gives them the encouragement to go on being creative, and creativity is the tool of a bright mind.

We enable kids to get their artwork onto a range of cool t-shirts - for themselves, their siblings, parents or grandparents. With our T-me Direct you can order a t-shirt of your choice then upload or post us the artwork. We'll send the printed version back to you within 5-10 days.

Alternatively, with our T-me Kit you get markers, paper, an order form and a catalogue of t-shirts, and a pre-paid envelope to send us the artwork. It makes a great gift for kids of all ages.

The art of a child presents the view and voice of a human being fresh in the world. Untrammeled by the responsibility and daily stress of adult life, children are free to view the world through a clear lens -- a lens that sees life with deep insight, joy and freedom. Their artwork reflects this strong sense of exploration, imagination, delight, and challenge.

Pablo Picasso wrote:
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

Nobel-laureate Roger Penrose says it this way:
"Children sometimes see things clearly that are indeed obscured in later life. We often forget the wonder that we felt as children when the cares of the activities of the 'real world' have begun to settle upon our shoulders. Children are not afraid to pose basic questions that may embarrass us, as adults, to ask."

Poloppo is built on the idea that the art of children from around the world has a powerful message for all of us. Particularly now, in the face of major global issues that our children are forced to inherit from us, we would do well to pay better attention to the voices of the world's children.

About Poloppo, the place: pa-LOP-po (noun) - A magical place, created and existing in the minds of all children. It is a safe place to explore, create and invent with unrestrained imagination for the future world that children will inherit and inhabit. The word Poloppo is without pre-existing meaning. Nor is it an acronym. It simply refers to a place of inspiration, vision and hope shared by children all over the world.

Best wishes for many happy times in Poloppo!