Hands-on learning activities generated for curious minds —
no screens for the child, ever.
Tell us the year group, subject and topic — TangibleAI designs a complete, ready-to-run activity with materials, step-by-step instructions and an adult script. It's free, and there's nothing to sign up for.
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Hands-on, screen-free learning for the youngest children. Choose the stage and the approach, pick an area of learning, and TangibleAI suggests age-appropriate topics — each with a printable worksheet to download and a full guided activity built around the materials you have to hand.
Pick a stage, an approach and an area of learning to see suggested topics.
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Capture how your child or student is learning — not just whether they finished. This curriculum-aware record is saved with the activity and powers your AI learning insights.
After you save a few activities with completed observations, TangibleAI spots patterns in how your child learns and recommends what to try next.
Build the complete curriculum for a whole academic year. Choose a year group, subject and curriculum, and TangibleAI lays out every topic and subtopic to cover, plus daily, weekly and monthly planners you can view, download and fill in. The plan reflects the chosen year and curriculum — it is a shared reference, not tied to any one child.
TangibleAI keeps technology in the background and the adult in the loop because that is what decades of learning science point to. Here are the thinkers and bodies of research that shape how we design activities — in plain-language summaries you can read in a minute.
Children build understanding in stages, moving from the concrete and physical toward the abstract. Young children especially learn by acting on the world — touching, sorting, building and testing ideas for themselves.
In TangibleAI: every activity is hands-on and pitched to the child's developmental stage, not just their year group.
Give children carefully chosen, real materials and the freedom to use them, and they develop concentration, independence and a love of purposeful work. The adult prepares the environment and then steps back.
In TangibleAI: we suggest simple, real-world materials and a clear adult role, so the child does the doing.
Children learn best with guidance from a more knowledgeable adult or peer — just beyond what they could manage alone (the “zone of proximal development”). Language and relationship are central to learning.
In TangibleAI: the parent or teacher leads, scaffolds and talks through each activity rather than handing a child a screen.
Learning moves from doing (enactive) to picturing (iconic) to symbols (symbolic). With well-timed support — “scaffolding” — children can reach ideas that would be out of reach on their own, then take the support away.
In TangibleAI: activities start concrete and build toward the underlying concept, with adult prompts along the way.
Children express and explore ideas in many “languages” — drawing, building, movement, storytelling and play. The environment itself acts as a “third teacher,” and curiosity drives the learning.
In TangibleAI: activities invite making, representing and investigating, not single right answers.
Learning should engage thinking, feeling and doing together. Imagination, rhythm, story and practical hands-on work are seen as essential, especially in the early years.
In TangibleAI: you can choose a Waldorf lens, and activities lean on story, craft and practical work.
Around 90% of a child's core brain architecture forms before age five — built through responsive, back-and-forth “serve and return” interaction with caring adults, not through screens.
In TangibleAI: the design centres the adult-child interaction that brain science says matters most.
Leading health bodies recommend strict limits on screen time for young children and emphasise interactive, play-based learning and plenty of active, hands-on experience instead.
In TangibleAI: the child's experience is screen-free by design — only the adult ever sees a screen.
Children get far more from technology when a trusted adult guides, discusses and co-engages with them — “joint media engagement” consistently beats solo, open-ended use.
In TangibleAI: AI supports the adult, who stays the child's primary learning relationship.
Summaries are short, plain-language overviews for busy parents and teachers, not academic citations.
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