How much screen time is reasonable over a break?

This plan puts a device in four of ten blocks, all of them in a session with an adult present and all of them making something rather than watching something. That ratio matters more than the minute count — an hour directing a build and an hour of autoplay are not the same hour. If you want the longer version of that argument, our screen time and AI guide works through it.

My child is seven. Is this too old for them?

Shorten every block and drop Day 4's morning. A seven-year-old can absolutely dictate a game plan, notice that an answer about their favourite thing is wrong, and demo what they made. What they can't usually hold is the three-attempt comparison, which needs enough working memory to keep version one in mind while reading version three.

My child is twelve and will find this babyish.

Raise the ceiling, not the structure. Let the Day 1 build be genuinely ambitious, let Day 2's expert topic be something they will argue with you about, and make the Day 5 demo an audience of more than one. Twelve-year-olds mostly object to being managed, not to making things.

Do I need to buy anything or sign up for anything?

No. Paper, a pen, sticky notes, and whatever AI tool the adult in the house already has access to. The off-screen blocks — Day 3 entirely, plus three others — need nothing at all.

Does my child need their own AI account?

No, and we'd advise against it at this age. Every tool block on this page is written for the adult's account with the adult present, which is both the safer arrangement and the one where the learning actually happens.

What if the whole plan falls apart on day two?

Then do Day 5. Genuinely — take whatever they made or half-made, and run the three-minute demo. A child explaining an unfinished thing has still practised the skill the week was for.

We're not on a break — can we use this on random days off?

Yes, and the blocks are deliberately independent for that reason. Any single block is a complete activity; the sequence just adds the arc. For a pick-one-tonight list instead of a sequence, our AI activities for kids guide has ten standalone ones.

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