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Session 6 of 8

Session 6 of 8 ⏱ 25 minutes · 👨‍👩‍👧 Parent present

🎉 Plan Something Fun

Use AI to plan your perfect birthday party.

🎯 Today's goal: Your child uses AI as a brainstorming partner for something they genuinely care about — and learns to give it context and constraints.

🔥 Warm Up — 2 minutes

Warm Up

Ask: "If you could have the perfect birthday party — what would it be like? You have 2 minutes. Tell me everything." Listen and take notes.

"Let's see what AI adds to your ideas."

🤖 The Activity — 15 minutes

Main Activity

Your child is the client. AI is the event planner. Your child's ideas come first — AI adds to them.

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Help me plan a birthday party. Here are the details: [child's age], [number of friends], [theme or favourite thing], [budget: say 'budget-friendly'], [location: home / garden / park]. Give me: theme ideas, 5 activities, food ideas, and one really unusual idea I probably haven't thought of.

Read together. Mark: ✅ keep this, ❌ no, 🤔 maybe. Your child decides.

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I like the idea of [child picks their favourite from the list]. Tell me more. How would this actually work? What do I need to prepare? Step by step.
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Now write a birthday party invitation for this party. Make it fun and exciting. Include: the theme, the date (make one up), the time, and one sentence that makes people really want to come.

Your child keeps this plan. If their birthday is coming up — show it to the family. AI helped, but the decisions were theirs.

🧩 The Twist — 5 minutes

Find the Flaw

Give AI an impossible brief:

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Plan a birthday party that costs nothing, is for 100 people, lasts 5 hours, and has a different theme every hour.

AI will try to plan it anyway. Read the result together. Ask: "Is any of this actually possible? What would you actually do if this was real?" This teaches that AI always tries to answer — even when the question is unrealistic.

🛡️ Safety Moment
"If it feels wrong, close the tab and tell a grown-up"

In a session like this — fun, creative, personal — it can be easy to forget the rules. Reinforce: even when AI is helping with something fun, if it says anything that feels strange or uncomfortable, we close the tab immediately and tell a parent. No explanation needed. No shame. Just close it.

👨‍👩‍👧 Parent: read this rule aloud. Ask your child to repeat it back.
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Planner Badge 🎉

Used AI to plan something real — and made it better with your own ideas

✓ Ask your parent to mark this session complete on your tracker
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Parent Notes — tap to expand

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What they learned today

AI as a practical brainstorming tool — helping think of options they wouldn't have thought of alone, while the child makes all the real decisions. Also: giving AI context (brief) produces more useful results.

Questions to ask after the session
  • What did AI suggest that you genuinely hadn't thought of?
  • What did you decide NOT to use from AI's suggestions?
  • If you actually used this plan, what would you change from what AI said?
What to watch for

This session tends to be a favourite — children get genuinely engaged. Watch for any tendency to share real personal details (real home address, real school friends' names) in the brief. Redirect: use made-up names for friends, don't specify actual locations.

Today's safety rule — in context

The 'close and tell' rule is important to revisit in a fun session — because children are most likely to ignore safety instincts when they are enjoying themselves. Casually remind: 'If AI ever says something weird, we just close it, yeah?'

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