The Lemonade Stand Corner
Two lemonade stands, one busy corner, one back garden. The first conversation about being findable, disguised as coloring.
The Activity Shelf
Something to do while the idea settles.
Coloring, drawing, arguing and word cards. Every one of these is a real page you can print straight from your browser, with nothing to sign up for and no email to hand over.
Color and Explain
A picture to color, and one question underneath it that does the actual teaching.
Teach the Computer Cats
Choose which pictures to show a pretend computer so it learns properly, then choose one that would teach it something wrong.
Draw What You Think
Nothing is drawn for them. They draw what they currently believe, and that drawing is the diagnostic.
Draw the Internet
Draw where a cartoon actually comes from before anybody explains it. Most children draw a phone, usefully.
Draw a Robot That Helps
Design a robot for one real job in your house, and label how it notices things and how it moves.
Draw Two Helpers and One Toolbox
Give two helpers the same job, then change what each one can see and use. Draw what happens next.
Five Seeds or Ten Dinners
Draw both futures: the one where you eat all ten seeds, and the one where you plant five. Then draw the one where it does not rain.
Talk About It
Questions with no paper required. Built for a car, a table, or the ten minutes before anybody will go to sleep.
Where Does Money Come From?
A short question sequence about trading, wanting, and what happens when two people want different things. No paper needed.
What Would You Build?
Find a real problem in your own house and decide what you would do about it. Ends with a decision, not an idea.
Word Cards
The vocabulary from a topic, cut into cards, with the crayon-level meaning on the back.
First Ten Internet Words
Internet, website, server, browser, search engine and five more, each with the crayon-level meaning on the back.
First Ten Money Words
Value, trade, price, profit, save, invest and four more, in the order they actually depend on each other.
Read first, then draw
Most of these work better after the matching explanation, and every activity links to the one it belongs with.