The opening screen is a painted playhouse. This activity can be accessed by first clicking Buddy, the paint can, then Buddy again. There is a full screen picture of a house and garden. Clicking on different parts of the picture will bring up a matching full screen scene that kids can color. Once complete, the small area on the screen fills in with color.
Kids are quite motivated to fill up their entire screen with color.
If children then click on the color blob, they are transported to the color mixing screen. Adding black to a color makes the color spotted or striped, and sometimes there's a bouncing black ball in the color. Clicking on it will take children to another room of the playhouse where there are lots of puzzle surprises waiting for them. When they discovered that their focus was supposed to be on the visual puzzles and that the musical instrument sounds were secondary factors, things became a lot more fun. The kids had an incredible time with the program.