Your Kids Will Use AI. Are You Teaching Them How?
Kids are discovering AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and others. Give them guidance and teach them to use AI with intention—through hands-on activities built on the Idea → AI → Play™ framework.
Show kids how to direct AI, not be directed by it.
Most parents worry AI will make their kids lazy. They're right to worry. but avoidance isn't the answer.
Kids are already discovering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other AI tools. Without guidance, they'll use them as shortcuts: copy answers, skip thinking, let technology do the work.
That's not the future we want.
I'm teaching my kids—and yours—a different approach: Use AI with intention, not as a shortcut.
Through the Idea → AI → Play™ framework, families learn to:
Put kids' imagination first (not AI's output)
Use AI as a tool in the middle (not the endpoint)
Question and improve what AI suggests (not blindly accept it)
Bring ideas into the real world through hands-on play
The result? Kids who can direct technology instead of being directed by it.
Every activity is tested at our kitchen table first. If it works with my 5 and 7-year-olds, it'll work with yours.
Ready to try it? Explore our family-tested activities below.
The Idea → AI → Play™ Framework: Kids create and question, we transform together using AI, they explore and reflect through hands-on play, then spark the next idea.
Featured activities
Select an activity and let the creativity flow
Creation to coloring
Turn your kid’s creation into inspiration for a coloring book page—while learning about what inspired your child.
Plot to podcast
Turn your child's breakfast stories into professional AI podcasts with Notebook LM. Free activity that teaches kids about AI voices, story themes, and media literacy. From spontaneous tale to audio analysis in minutes—then let them create their own version.
Character to costume
Create a character (in our case a superhero) that doesn’t yet exist, then build the costume and bring it to life in the real world.
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