Kids Routines
My kids can run their own morning and bedtime without me repeating myself. Each of them has an old tablet locked to one screen: a routine checklist to tap through, an answer to the daily question "is it the weekend," and a rainbow that fills in as they eat different colors of food. No login. It resets at midnight.
- Why
- My four-year-old asks every single day whether it's the weekend, and routines work better as a picture checklist than as me saying it again. My two-year-old would get jealous, so there is an icon-only twin. That one exists for inclusion, not literacy practice.
- How long
- One day, July 23, 2026.
How I built it
- I wrote a plain-English spec: what each kid sees in the morning, at night and on weekends.
- I had Claude build and test the date and holiday logic on its own first.
- I had it build each kid's page as one self-contained file and publish it as an Artifact.
- On each tablet I opened the link in Chrome, tapped the three dots, then Add to Home screen.
- I turned on screen pinning (Settings, then Security, then pin app) so the tablet stays on that page.
- I set the rainbow to finish at one food per color, because the only blue foods are basically blueberries.
- To copy it you need
- Claude, or the AI of your choice, and an old Android tablet. The gotcha: the link can show a login screen after sitting idle, which a toddler obviously can't get past. A kiosk browser app is the fallback.
Try it yourself
Copy this prompt and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude to try it yourself.
I want to copy the Kids Routines tablets from Frances Tang's What Are We Building profile. Each of her kids has an old tablet locked to one page: a picture checklist for morning and bedtime that they tap through, a big answer to "is it the weekend," and a rainbow that fills in as they eat different colors of food. It needs no login and resets itself at midnight. Her gotcha: the first version looked like a game because the food tracker took over the screen, so keep the checklist front and center, and test every emoji on the actual tablet because some show up as blank boxes. Help me build one page for my kid that I can open on a tablet. Start by asking my kid's age, whether they can read, and what their morning routine is. Ask me for anything you need.
Tools I used for this project
Claude Code: Wrote the design spec with me, then built each screen as a single file.Claude ArtifactsAndroid Screen Pinning
