Free Tools
Small, quick tools for the moment you cannot think of anything. No account, nothing saved, nothing sent anywhere.
The tools
- Activity Finder Say who is playing, how long you have and what you have to hand. Get activities that actually fit.
- Age Calculator Work out exactly how old your child is today — years, months, weeks, days, even seconds. Free, instant, and nothing you type ever leaves your browser.
- Bedtime & Sleep Calculator Find a bedtime that fits the morning you actually have. Enter a wake-up time and your child’s age to see when lights out needs to be. Free and instant.
- Snacks & Water Calculator A rough guide to how much water and how much fruit and veg a child gets through in a day, by age. Free, instant, and nothing is saved.
- Toy Math Adding and taking away, shown with objects a child can count on the screen. A visual way into early maths for ages 3 to 7. Free, no signup.
- Color Mixer Pick two paints and see what they make. A quick way to answer the question that comes up every single time the paints come out. Free and instant.
- Crawling & Walking Chart The usual age ranges for rolling, crawling, standing and first steps, shown as a chart. General information only — every child arrives in their own time.
- Baby Teeth Chart An interactive chart of all twenty baby teeth and the months each one usually appears. General information only — order and timing vary a lot.
Browse free tools
Sometimes you do not want to browse. You want one idea, now, that fits the twenty minutes before dinner. These tools exist for that moment.
They run entirely in your browser. Nothing you choose is stored, and none of it is sent to us — which is deliberate, because a tool that helps you plan an afternoon has no business collecting anything about your family.
What you'll find here
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Activity finder
Four questions — age, where you are, how long you have, what mood they are in — and one activity you can start straight away.
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Boredom buster — coming soon
A wheel to spin when nobody can decide. Not built yet. In the meantime the printable boredom buster cards do the same job: cut them out, put them in a jar, and let the jar choose.
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What can we make with this? — coming soon
Tell it what is in the cupboard and it tells you what you could do with it. Not built yet. Until it is, the household items section lists everything that needs only what you already have.
More tools are on the way. If there is one you keep wishing existed, tell us — that is genuinely how this list gets decided.