Encourage creative AI projects to build positive skills

Channel children's AI curiosity into creative projects: generate a short story together and illustrate it, create a choose-your-own-adventure game with AI-generated scenarios, use AI to help plan a family event, or have the AI teach them about a topic they are passionate about through interactive Q&A.

Why It Works

Using AI as a creative collaborator builds prompt engineering skills, critical thinking, and digital literacy. Children learn to direct AI rather than passively consume its output, which is the most valuable AI skill for their future.

Tips

• "AI as creative partner" projects: write a song together, design a fictional creature, plan a dream vacation
• Have children critique and improve AI output rather than accepting it as-is
• Older children can use AI to learn coding, build websites, or create digital art
• Document projects to show children their growing skills with AI over time