--- title: "Kids English Video by 小北AI — AI video generator workflow for animation & motion graphics" description: "2–3 min English lessons for ages 3–6: sentence-pattern Q&A, word cards, repeat-after-me, all on one kids' beat. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command." url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/kids-english-video updated: 2026-11-11 --- # Kids English Video by 小北AI — workflow skill for animation & motion graphics > **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q="` returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. From a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` installs the vargai CLI (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli.md): `vargai search` and `vargai install ` with no key, every varg model after `vargai login`. 2–3 min English lessons for ages 3–6: sentence-pattern Q&A, word cards, repeat-after-me, all on one kids' beat. - **Type:** [Workflow](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md) · [Animation & motion graphics](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/animation.md) - **Slug:** `kids-english-video` - **Status:** beta - **Publisher:** 小北AI (community) - **License:** unknown - **Source:** https://github.com/lwmxiaobei/xiaobei-skills/tree/main/kids-english-video - **Works in:** Claude Code - **Requires:** macOS (zsh), Python 3 with uv, FFmpeg, Node.js and a logged-in Codex CLI (npx @openai/codex) for character images, Fish Audio API key (FISH_AUDIO_API_KEY or FISH_API_KEY) - **Cost:** Free skill; voices bill your Fish Audio key, images your Codex (ChatGPT) plan - **Adoption:** 1 installs, 68 GitHub stars (GitHub + skills.sh, 2026-11-10) ## What it does Makes 1920×1080 English starter episodes for children aged 3 to 6, two to three minutes each: one sentence pattern asked and answered over several rounds, word cards, lead-and-repeat lines, pauses for the child to answer, a twist and a goodbye, all on one beat (100 BPM by default) with mouth shapes driven by the voice's loudness. Five art styles (flat, crayon, paper cut-out, clay, watercolor) with four characters and five music choices (ukulele, music box, toy march, chiptune, none); frames are drawn in Canvas code and rendered by parallel headless Playwright, voices come from Fish Audio, and music and SFX are synthesized in Python and mixed to -16 LUFS. SKILL.md and README are in Chinese. The author's launch posts reached 26–28k views and 500+ bookmarks. ## Use when - a kids' English song or sentence-pattern video (Do you like…? / Can you…?) - the next episode of a preschool English series with the same characters and style - redo an episode in another art style or with other music - 幼儿英语启蒙动画 / 少儿英语儿歌视频 ## Not for - Windows or Linux without changes: the image script uses zsh and macOS paths - Reusing the characters, art or code beyond trying it yourself: the repo has no licence ## Install - Claude Code: `git clone https://github.com/lwmxiaobei/xiaobei-skills.git && cp -R xiaobei-skills/kids-english-video ~/.claude/skills/kids-english-video` - Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install kids-english-video` ## More animation & motion graphics skills - [Turn any still into a looping GIF](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/gpt-image-gif.md): A still, mascot or prompt to a looping GIF on GPT Image 2.6: frame sizes that fit, loop wording, WebP export. - [Turn a character into a game sprite sheet](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/gpt-image-sprite-sheet.md): 2D game sprite sheets on GPT Image 2.6: a 4x4 spec that slices cleanly into frames, a GIF and a Phaser atlas. - [Day in My Life](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-day-in-my-life.md): A 60–75 s hand-drawn ink film of your agent's day with you, built from local Claude Code history, scored for strings. - [p5 Paint Animation](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-p5-paint-animation.md): Handwriting that writes itself, photos that paint themselves and clips repainted as living paintings, in p5.js code. - [Session Story](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-session-story.md): A 40–70 s watercolor film of a typical session with your agent, told in your real messages, with its own score. - [Remotion Markup](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/remotion-markup.md): Write Remotion markup that animates well: timing, transitions, motion blur, effects, audio, fonts and 3D. ## Run the generation on varg varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs. - Any agent with a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` (Windows: `irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex`), then `vargai login` and every model is a command — `vargai generate_video …`, `vargai estimate_cost …` (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/) - Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a -y` - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp` - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt