Teach Design Thinking to Your Kids
Use these activities to bring out your child's creative confidence, ability to experiment, and to get from problems to solutions -- in empathetic ways.
The Key Design Thinking Mindsets
- Empathy: Seeing a situation from another person's point of view, and tuning into their needs and emotions
- Problem-Spotting: Redefining a challenge to see opportunities, and ask better questions
- Brainstorming: Coming up with many, wild, ambitious ways to solve problems
- Prototyping: Making things to think through solutions, and to test out ideas you have
- Iteration: Learning from feedback, seeking criticism, and using it to improve your work
- Visualization: Making your thoughts real with sketches, diagrams, and other visual expression
- Creative Confidence: Working boldly without questioning your own skills, or over-analyzing while you are creating
Design Thinking Activities
Design Your Living Room with Your Little Interior Designer
Instead of designing the living room yourself, invite your children to be a part of it and share their fresh and big ideas with you.
Making Salad for Your Guests
Design thinking while enjoying yummy salad.
Make Your Own Elephant tutorial: draw, pattern + construct!
Make a lovely, cushy creature using the design process + patterns!
Go Design Thinking while Empathizing Your Parents
Allow your child to make a little bit sense of your feelings, memories, and mental models to sketch.
Think Logically While Organizing Your Dishes
When your dishes are ready to organize, let your child sort them and then find the right places to put.
Empathy Map
Empathy map is a powerful tool to use while interviewing with parents.
The Little Television Host of Stem Family Channel
It is going to be so much! It is time to perform as a guest speaker together with your T.V. host child.
2 year old crib climbing contract
How do you solve a problem like crib-escapes? We are trying to draw out the rules and talk them through.
Family Skate Painting
we created a game to paint a giant board together with our feet
Kitchen table interviews
Help your kids develop empathy with this interview activity
Read to your kids like a Designer Would
Over the holiday break, we have been burning through all of our books in our kids books library. So we decided to take a shot at […]
Making a home art gallery
Time to make all your family drawings and art come alive with a home gallery
Stamping out shape patterns
Learn systems and visual design by making patterns out of stamp shapes
The Costco Dance Game for Computational Thinking
Sequence a dance with your child, for a store you visit all the time
The Collaborate Paint Game
Create a Surrealist gallery with paintings you create back-and-forth with your child
Design your parent’s outfit
Your kid's in charge of your fashion -- and becoming a design thinker!
Brainstorm Eggs for Your Grandparents
Have an empathy-rich morning meal, with eggs cooked in a design thinking way.
Visual Bedtime agreement
Build your child's design thinking capabilities by drawing out your bedtime rights and responsibilities together.
Make your very own Family Face Pattern
Create an awesome, custom pattern just for your family, with their beautiful faces -- and mix drawing and art with mathematics.