Tiny Wins | Real-World Learning Activities for Curious Kids
Tiny Wins isn’t just another kids’ education directory—it’s a collection of hands-on experiences, bite-sized learning moments, and real-world skills that prepare children for a future beyond grades.
10-Day AI & Machine Learning Exploration for Kids
Expose kids to AI & machine learning concepts in a fun, hands-on, and engaging way—balancing screen, off-screen, physical, creative, and social activities. The curriculum is designed to make AI relatable to everyday life, while integrating creativity, problem-solving, and real-world applications.
10-Day AI & Machine Learning Exploration for Kids
(Focus on Fun, Hands-on Learning & Real-World Connections)
📝 Objective:
Expose kids to AI & machine learning concepts in a fun, hands-on, and engaging way—balancing screen, off-screen, physical, creative, and social activities. The curriculum is designed to make AI relatable to everyday life, while integrating creativity, problem-solving, and real-world applications.
📅 Day 1: What is AI? (Fun Introduction)
💡 Theme: Understanding how AI is everywhere in daily life.
🎯 Skills: Observation, Logical Thinking, Creativity, Discussion Skills
| Activity Type | Activity | How to Engage |
|---|---|---|
| 📖 Off-Screen (Real-World AI Scavenger Hunt) | AI in Everyday Life | Walk around the house/neighborhood and spot AI in action (e.g., voice assistants, YouTube recommendations, auto-flush toilets, Google Maps). Guided Discussion: “How does AI decide which video to recommend?” |
| 💻 On-Screen (Hands-On AI) | Quick Draw with Google | Game: QuickDraw – AI guesses your drawings. Ask: "How is AI learning from my drawings?" |
| 🎨 Creative Activity | Invent an AI Robot | Your child draws his own imaginary AI-powered robot. What does it do? What problem does it solve? Encourage wild, fun ideas! |
| 📢 Social Exploration | Explain AI to Someone Else | Ayden explains AI to a stuffed toy or a family member (“How would you teach grandma what AI is?”). Reinforces understanding & communication skills. |
📅 Day 2: How Do AI Models Learn? (Teaching a Computer!)
💡 Theme: AI learns from patterns & examples (just like humans!).
🎯 Skills: Pattern Recognition, Cause & Effect Thinking, Memory, Creativity
| Activity Type | Activity | How to Engage |
|---|---|---|
| 🏃♂️ Physical (Active AI Game) | Act Like a Smart AI! | Play a Simon Says-style game: One person is “AI,” the other gives commands. The "AI" can only respond based on pre-learned rules (e.g., “Jump when you hear ‘banana’ but not ‘apple’”). Explains how AI follows training data! |
| 🧩 Off-Screen (Hands-On Logic Game) | Sorting Game (Supervised Learning) | Lay out colored marbles/toys and tell your child to sort them without rules. Then give rules (e.g., "Sort by size"). Explain that AI needs instructions (labeled data) to learn. |
| 💻 On-Screen (Interactive AI) | Teach an AI (Teachable Machine) | Google’s Teachable Machine – Let Ayden train an AI to recognize different objects or faces. Ask: "What happens if I show it the wrong example?" Try it here |
| 🎨 Creative & Discussion | Design a Super AI Pet | If you could have an AI-powered pet, what would it do? Let him draw and explain. Does it learn tricks? How does it make decisions? |
📅 Day 3: AI & Games (How Computers Play Smart)
💡 Theme: AI in Games – How AI gets better by playing (Reinforcement Learning).
🎯 Skills: Strategy, Problem-Solving, Cause & Effect Thinking
| Activity Type | Activity | How to Engage |
|---|---|---|
| 🎮 On-Screen (AI & Games) | AI Playing Games (Land The Booster) | Play Land the Booster. Discuss: "What if an AI played this game? How would it get better over time?" |
| 🧠 Off-Screen (Board Game with AI Thinking) | Tic-Tac-Toe Strategy Training | Your child plays against YOU, but you act like an AI: Only repeat winning moves from past games. Explain how AI remembers strategies and avoids mistakes. |
| 🏃♂️ Physical (Obstacle Course with AI Thinking) | Try-Fail-Learn Challenge | Set up an obstacle course at home/playground. Ayden tries different routes and learns the best way to complete it (just like AI learning from experience!). |
| 📢 Creative Discussion | What If AI Played Soccer? | “What if AI was a soccer coach? What rules would it follow? Would it be better than humans?” Encourages critical thinking & imagination. |
📅 Day 4: AI & Art (Can AI Be Creative?)
💡 Theme: Exploring AI-generated art & music.
🎯 Skills: Creativity, Experimentation, Digital Literacy
| Activity Type | Activity | How to Engage |
|---|---|---|
| 🎨 On-Screen (AI Art Experiment) | AI Painting with Deep Dream Generator | Let Ayden create crazy AI-generated art. Discuss: "Is AI really creative, or is it copying?" Try here |
| 🎼 Music (AI-Generated Songs) | Make AI Compose a Song! | Use AI tools like AIVA or Google’s MusicLM to create music. Ask: “What’s different between human vs. AI music?” |
| 🎭 Physical (Role Play AI Artist) | AI Drawing Challenge (Act Like an AI!) | One person draws random shapes, and the other must guess and complete the drawing (like AI filling in missing details). Shows how AI tries to "predict" art. |
| 📢 Discussion & Reflection | Can AI Be Creative? | “Would you buy AI art? What makes art special?” Encourages debate & deeper thinking. |
📅 Day 5: AI in Everyday Life (Jobs & Future Tech!)
💡 Theme: How AI helps in jobs, transport, and even medicine.
🎯 Skills: Problem-Solving, Future Thinking, Awareness
| Activity Type | Activity | How to Engage |
|---|---|---|
| 🚗 On-Screen (AI in Driving – Simulation!) | Explore Self-Driving Cars (Tesla AI) | Watch a self-driving car simulation. Ask: "How does AI know when to stop?" Let him try a simple driving simulator like Cargo Bridge |
| 🏥 Real-World Connection (AI in Medicine) | Doctor AI Role Play | Play pretend – your child is AI helping doctors. Ask: "How could AI find a cure for diseases?" Let him diagnose a toy’s "illness" using “data” (e.g., color, temperature). |
| 🧩 Physical (Building & Engineering Thinking) | Fixing & Upgrading AI Gadgets | Take apart an old toy or gadget together (if available) & ask: “If this toy had AI, what would it do?” |
| 🎨 Creative Discussion & Reflection | What AI Job Would You Invent? | Let your child design a future job that AI would help with (e.g., AI Pizza Maker, AI Homework Helper). |
Why This Curriculum Works for your child
✅ Aligns with his curiosity about technology, games, and how things work.
✅ Incorporates hands-on, digital, and movement-based learning.
✅ Allows creativity while exposing him to real-world AI applications.
✅ Keeps learning fun & interactive (no boring theory-only lessons!).
10-Day AI & Machine Learning Exploration for Kids
(Days 6-10: Creative & Hands-On AI Learning Using Lovable & Other Tools)
📝 Objective:
This curriculum continues exposing your child to AI concepts in a fun, hands-on way, with a strong focus on creativity, exploration, and making things using Lovable and other tools. It blends screen, off-screen, physical, and interactive activities to make AI learning enjoyable and practical.
📅 Day 6: Can AI Understand Art? (AI & Creativity)
💡 Theme: Exploring how AI can create art, stories, and music.
🎯 Skills: Creativity, Digital Art, Logical Thinking
| Activity Type | Activity | How to Engage |
|---|---|---|
| 🎨 Creative AI Activity | Create AI-Generated Art (Lovable) | Use Lovable to create AI-assisted drawings. Your child can describe a scene, and AI will generate it. Then, modify it manually for a human-AI collaboration. |
| 🖥 On-Screen AI Experiment | AI Story Generator (Lovable) | Let your child input words into Lovable’s AI story creator. Read the AI’s response and modify it together to make it unique. |
| 🎶 Music Fun with AI | AI-Generated Music | Use Lovable’s music generator or Google’s AI Music to create unique sounds. Discuss: “Can AI create better music than humans?” |
| 🎭 Role-Playing & Discussion | Can AI Be an Artist? | Play a role-playing game where your child is an AI artist, and you’re the customer requesting art. See how they take creative requests! |
📅 Day 7: AI & Game Design – Making an AI-Powered Game
💡 Theme: Teaching AI to make and play simple games.
🎯 Skills: Logical Thinking, Game Development, AI Training
| Activity Type | Activity | How to Engage |
|---|---|---|
| 🎮 Creative AI Coding | Make an AI Mini-Game (Lovable) | Use Lovable’s game-building tools to design a simple jumping, obstacle, or racing game. |
| 🎭 Off-Screen Game Simulation | Be an AI Gamer | One person pretends to be an AI learning how to play a simple game. Your child must train the “AI” by giving hints (like AI training models). |
| 🖥 On-Screen AI Experiment | Try Google’s AI Games | Experiment with AI-powered games like Quick, Draw! to see how AI recognizes sketches. |
| 🏗 DIY AI Board Game | Create a Game Board Inspired by AI | Let your child design a board game where AI makes decisions. Create fun AI “power-ups” that affect gameplay. |
📅 Day 8: AI in Daily Life – Can We Trust AI?
💡 Theme: Exploring how AI helps with tasks like shopping, navigation, and home automation.
🎯 Skills: Decision-Making, AI Ethics, Logical Reasoning
| Activity Type | Activity | How to Engage |
|---|---|---|
| 🛒 Role-Playing Activity | AI Personal Shopper Game | Your child acts as an AI assistant helping you pick out a gift. They must ask smart questions to "learn" what you like. |
| 🏗 Creative AI Design | Make an AI Smart Home (Lovable) | Design an AI-powered smart home concept using Lovable—voice-controlled lights, robot chefs, etc. |
| 🖥 On-Screen Experiment | Testing AI Assistants | Try Google Assistant, Siri, or ChatGPT together. Ask: “What are some things AI gets wrong?” |
| 🎭 Fun Debate | AI vs. Humans – Who Decides Better? | Discuss when AI should make decisions and when humans should. Play a mini-debate: Would you trust an AI babysitter? |
📅 Day 9: AI & Sports – Can AI Make You a Better Athlete?
💡 Theme: AI in sports, fitness, and body movement analysis.
🎯 Skills: Coordination, AI Data Interpretation, Decision-Making
| Activity Type | Activity | How to Engage |
|---|---|---|
| 🏀 Physical Activity | AI-Tracked Sports Challenge | Let your child record their kicks, jumps, or throws and try to improve each round (like an AI fitness tracker). |
| 🎮 AI Sports Game (Lovable) | Design a Fun AI Game | Use Lovable to create a sports-related AI game, like an AI referee or a virtual coach. |
| 📊 Data Experiment | Track Sports Performance | Let your child record their scores in a simple game (like basketball or jumping) and act as an AI analyzing the results. |
| 🤔 Discussion | Should AI Replace Coaches? | Ask: “Would an AI coach be better than a human?” Explore AI’s role in training. |
📅 Day 10: What’s Next? The Future of AI
💡 Theme: Imagining the next AI inventions.
🎯 Skills: Innovation, Prediction, Ethical Thinking
| Activity Type | Activity | How to Engage |
|---|---|---|
| 🏗 Creative Building | Invent the Future AI (Lovable) | Let your child design an AI invention for the future—a flying robot, an AI-powered school, or a fun new gadget. |
| 🎭 Role-Playing Game | What If AI Controlled the World? | Play a scenario where AI runs everything—Would it be better or worse? |
| 🖥 On-Screen Exploration | Explore Future AI Videos | Watch short AI future trend videos and discuss: “Which idea do you think will come true?” |
| 📖 Reflection & Storytelling | What Did You Learn? | Ask: “What was your favorite part about learning AI?” Encourage your child to draw, write, or voice-record their thoughts. |
Why This Curriculum Works
✅ Uses Lovable to encourage creativity & hands-on AI making.
✅ Encourages a mix of digital & real-world exploration.
✅ Balances storytelling, role-play, physical activity, and critical thinking.
✅ Helps kids see AI as fun, useful, and full of possibilities.
