🧠 How We Built an AI Learning Toolkit for Our Toddler (And How You Can Too)

Last month, my wife and I decided to stop searching for perfect toddler learning apps and build something tailored to our daughter instead.

She’s just turned 2.

She’s counting to 20, knows her ABCs, Shapes, Colours, one-to-one counting and letter sound for all letters of the alphabet. She is now bored of most programmes we have validated and we wanted to feed that curiosity — without more screen time, YouTube ads, or repetitive songs.

So we turned to AI.

Here’s how we built a custom early-learning system in less than a week using AI tools and how you can too.

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🎯 Step 1: Map the Learning Journey We didn’t start with tech. We started with intention.

We listed:

• Topics she was already interested in (animals, colours, numbers)

• Skills we wanted to nurture (memory, verbal ability, empathy)

• The kind of formats she liked (stories, songs, quizzes)

🛠️ Tools to plan:

• Notion — For outlining goals and schedules

• Miro or Whimsical — For visualising learning flows

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🧠 Step 2: Generate Content Using AI Once we had the structure, we used AI to fill in the blanks.

With smart prompting, we generated:

• Rhyming stories about animals

• Songs about shapes and seasons

• Flashcards and short quizzes

🛠️ Tools used:

• ChatGPT and Claude

• Teach Anything — For AI-powered quizzes

📌 Prompt example:

"Write a 3-minute story for a 2-year-old about a kind lion learning to count to 10. Include rhymes and simple lessons."

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🎨 Step 3: Add Voice + Visuals Stories come alive when they look and sound magical.

We used:

🎤 Voice:

• ElevenLabs — Lifelike narration

• Play.ht — Friendly, child-safe voices

🖼️ Illustrations:

• Midjourney or DALL-E

• Canva AI

• Kittl — For clean book-like layouts

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📚 Step 4: Design Interactive Learning Formats To keep her engaged, we transformed content into:

• Mini learning decks

• Interactive stories

• Printable flashcards

🛠️ Tools to build:

• Gamma.app — Swipeable lessons

• Tome — Narrative-first stories

• BookBildr — Turn AI stories into real books

• Canva — For flashcards and visual boards

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🔁 Step 5: Build the Weekly System We turned this into a system:

1. Choose weekly theme

2. Prompt content in GPT

3. Add voice and visuals

4. Share via Notion or printable PDF

🛠️ Optional tools to streamline:

• Zapier or Make.com

• Trello — Track build tasks

• Descript — Edit audio or narration fast

• Browse.ai — Auto-pull child-safe facts from trusted sites

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📈 The Result

Our daughter now:

• Has a weekly story or song that feels "made for her"

• Enjoys counting games we created in Gamma

• Recaps new words from flashcards we made in Canva

And we’re getting requests from friends to share it with their toddlers too.

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📚 Want to Build Your Own? Use our toolkit as a starting point, or message me if you'd like help building something like this for your own family.

Let’s raise AI-native children — with intention.

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🛠️ Tools of the Day

🎙 Descript — Turn your AI stories into narrated audiobooks in minutes

🧠 Browse.ai — Pull and update child-friendly facts from trusted educational sites automatically

📘 BookBildr — Print your AI-generated stories into hardcover picture books

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💬 Prompt of the Day "Act as a preschool curriculum designer. Create a weekly plan for a 2-year-old to learn numbers 1 to 10, including stories, songs, physical games, and digital tools."

Try it in GPT-4o, Claude, or Gemini and compare results.

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Talk soon,
Michael A Ramsay

Let’s build learning tools that feel like magic — powered by AI.