---
title: "Childhood Me"
description: "Turns an adult photo into 4 separate doodle portraits of the same person de-aged to childhood stages — toddler, early school, pre-teen, and teenager."
url: "https://doodleai.art/skills/childhood/"
skill_id: "childhood"
kind: "image"
requires_photo: true
images_per_run: 4
credits: 4
---

# Childhood Me

Creates four individual square doodle images from a single adult photo. Each image shows the same recognizable person at a different childhood age (3, 6, 10, and teen) while preserving their core identity features — hair colour, eye colour, face shape, and distinguishing marks. Age-appropriate proportions, clothing, and features change per stage, but the character is unmistakably the same person across the set.

| Property | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Skill id | childhood |
| What it makes | See yourself as a kid — 4 ages from one photo |
| Category | packs |
| Photo required | Yes |
| Images per run | 4 |
| Credit cost | 4 (1 per image) |
| Aspect ratio | 1:1 |
| Output | Still image (PNG) |
| Tags | childhood, de-age, nostalgia |

## When to use it

Use when the user wants to see themselves as a child, wants a de-aged doodle, childhood version, or asks for "me as a kid" from an adult photo.

## Multi-image pack

One run of this skill returns 4 separate images rather than a single frame, and is charged 4 credits — 1 per image. Failed images are refunded.

## How to run it

- Open [Doodle AI](https://doodleai.art/) and attach a photo.
- Ask for it by name — "Childhood Me" — or let the agent pick it from your request.
- Refine in plain language afterwards: "thicker outline", "warmer paper".

## Links

- [Childhood Me page (HTML)](https://doodleai.art/skills/childhood/)
- [All skills](https://doodleai.art/skills.md)
- [Free tools](https://doodleai.art/tools.md)