Tell us their name and age.
Thirty seconds, once. That's the whole setup.
Mini Z and MeBuilt by a qualified Early Years educator
The day's already planned.
You just have to play.
Open Mini Z and Me and the idea's already there, chosen for your child's age, personality and how much time you've got. Made from items already in the kitchen drawer. No screen, no scrolling, no guilt. Just one thing to do together, and the relief of not having to think about it yourself.
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Sound familiar
“It's not even 9am and you've already run out of ideas.”
The blocks are everywhere. The telly's been on twice. They're bored, you're frayed, and the whole day is still ahead of you. You want to be the parent who does the painting and the puddle-jumping, but in the moment your mind goes blank and the iPad is right there. It isn't that you don't care. It's that nobody hands you the plan.
The easy yes
Open the app.
The idea's already there.
Mini Z and Me does the thinking so you don't have to. One tap on “For [child] today” and you get a handful of ideas picked for exactly where they are right now, simple enough to start in the next two minutes, made from what's already in the house. You're not choosing from a thousand things. You're choosing from the right three.
How it works
Three taps from a blank afternoon.
Open the app on a blank afternoon.
Today's ideas are already waiting, matched to their age and personality.
Pick one, and play.
Clear steps, what you'll need, why it helps. Then close the app and be with them.
It knows your child
“Not ‘activities for toddlers’.”
Activities for yours.
Tell it Zaki is two and a half and obsessed with diggers, and you'll get a sand-and-spoons dig site, not a generic craft. Mark the ones that landed and the ones that flopped, and it leans into what they love. A rainy Tuesday at 4pm with ten minutes to spare gets a different answer than a bright Saturday morning. The more you use it, the more it feels like it actually knows them.
Puddle Splashing
1 month ago today · age 2
Z said "wa-ta!" for the first time today, and kept saying it to the puddle like they had invented the word.
0:08 voice noteFirst word
While you're at it
And the good bits
don't disappear.
When something makes you laugh, the first proper word, the face they pull at cold yoghurt, tap once and keep it. A photo, a voice note of exactly how they say it now. It quietly builds into a private diary of these years, and every so often it hands a moment back: a month ago today, six months ago, the day they discovered puddles. The play fills the afternoon. The diary makes sure you remember it.
Start keeping the moments →The screen-free alternative
The thing you reach for instead.
Nearly every under-five in the UK spends time on a screen each day1, and most of us feel a quiet pull of guilt about it. Mini Z and Me is the easy yes for the other moments. The same one-tap relief, real play they will actually remember, and not a screen in sight.
1Ofcom, Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes report (2023).
What's actually inside
Real depth, painted by hand.
1,200+activities7subject areas6EYFS milestonesages 0 to 5years covered
Made by someone who teaches it
Every idea has a reason.
Mini Z and Me is built and run by a qualified Early Years educator. Every idea is rooted in the EYFS framework that nurseries follow, so the “just playing” is quietly doing the developmental work too. You don't have to think about any of that. It's handled.
Cognitive growth
Social skills
Fine motor
Language
Creativity & imagination
Understanding the world
What parents say
From families who use it every day.
“I used to spend the first hour of every day feeling guilty before I'd even made breakfast. Now I just open it and we get on with something. It's taken a real weight off.”
Hannah, mum to a 2-year-old, Leeds
“We're a grandparents-doing-childcare household and I was always stuck for ideas. This basically gives me the afternoon plan. My grandson thinks I've got loads of tricks now.”
Sue, Cardiff
“The kitchen-drawer thing won me over. No trip to Hobbycraft, no Amazon order. Just stuff we already had and a happy two-year-old.”
Priya, mum of two, Manchester
What it costs
Less than a single soft-play trip.
For every day of them.
One membership. Everything in it. Try it free for 7 days before you pay a penny.
Membership
- ✓Daily ideas chosen for your child
- ✓The full library of 1,200+ activities
- ✓Build your own activities for them
- ✓A private diary with voice notes
- ✓A monthly story of their highlights
- ✓Room for all your children
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Good to know
Questions you probably have.
Is this just more screen time?
The opposite. You open it for ten seconds to get the idea, then put the phone down and play. Everything it suggests is hands-on and screen-free. It's the thing you reach for instead of the iPad, not as well as it.
Is my child's data private?
Yes. Your diary, photos and voice notes are private to you, never sold, never used to train anything, never shown to other families. Export or delete the lot whenever you like.
Is it actually worth paying for?
If it saves you one "what do I do with them today" panic a week, it's paid for itself. Try it free for 7 days before you pay a penny.
Will it suit my child's age?
It's built for 0 to 5 and adapts as they grow. A six-month-old gets gentle sensory play, a nearly-five gets early phonics and maths. Add each child and it tailors to each one.
Do I need a cupboard full of craft supplies?
No. Most ideas use what's already in your kitchen and recycling. When something needs more, it tells you up front so there are no half-finished afternoons.
Why aren't there photos or videos showing how to set each activity up?
Because there's no right or wrong way to do them. Each one is an idea and a starting point, a way to sit down together and connect, not a set of steps to copy. Half the joy is your child taking it somewhere you didn't expect, so we leave room for them to use their imagination and make it their own.
Tomorrow morning,
the idea's already there.
Set it up tonight in less time than it takes to boil the kettle. Then never start a day with a blank again.