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My son is 9 so I’ve looked around for similar activities in the computer space. I also run a code club for 9-11 year olds.

Turing Tumble teaches you to build a binary calculator using marbles and bits of plastic. At her age, it will require you to be pretty hands on, but it’s away from the computer.

Board games with lots of rules can be good for understanding complex systems. Catan and Spacebase, for example.

Playgrounds on Apple devices is great. Full on coding but in an interesting way. Raspberry Pi foundation has a number of projects for Scratch and Python. There’s a book about coding for kids where you hack away at a Python computer game.

Steam has some games for teaching coding. Human Resource Machine is great.

ChatGPT and Dall-E also get lots of smiles. Interact with the API to build a chatbot.