10 Holiday-Themed Kids AI Activities
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
4.7 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
A bonus, ad-free Thanksgiving episode sharing ten creative, genuinely fun holiday projects that use AI to help kids make stories, coloring books, interactive websites, advent calendars, animal-adoption posters, personalized elf messages, mini-podcasts, animated Santa letters, and even custom family songs. It’s a guide to unlocking kid creativity with today’s newest models while keeping the season grounded in gratitude and imagination.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Today on the AI Daily Brief as we celebrate Thanksgiving, 10 holiday-themed AI activities for kids. |
| 0:07.0 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. |
| 0:18.0 | All right, friends, well, today is, of course, Thanksgiving, and this is a surprise episode. |
| 0:24.4 | Normally the way that we work here at AI Daily Brief is it's six days a week, not Saturday, |
| 0:28.6 | and federal holidays are off, and that was the plan heading into this week. |
| 0:32.0 | But as I was doing the 10 AI projects to learn about all these awesome new models episode |
| 0:36.6 | that you'll get tomorrow heading into the long weekend. I had this idea to do one that was a little bit more |
| 0:42.5 | focused on kids and really got into the spirit of the season. Now, a big thing to know about me |
| 0:48.4 | is that I absolutely love the holidays this time of year, the traditions, really from about |
| 0:53.6 | September 1st through New Year's, this is my favorite time. And we are time of year, the traditions, really from about September 1st through New |
| 0:55.1 | years, this is my favorite time. And we are, of course, entering the peak of that with the |
| 1:00.7 | Thanksgiving to Christmas stretch. I also happen to believe it will surprise you none, that |
| 1:05.5 | done right, AI can be an incredibly creativity unlocking tool for kids. They are going to grow up in this world |
| 1:13.1 | with these tools. And while there are major questions of how we redesign education, how we |
| 1:18.1 | redesign the economy, the one constant is that these tools will be there and they will need to know |
| 1:23.1 | how to use them. And so hopefully some of these ideas are fun ways to get that process started. |
| 1:44.7 | Now, my kids are four and seven, and that will probably come through in these ideas. This is much more for that set than it is for teenagers. But hopefully these give you some fun ideas for things to do, maybe to kill some time in and around the holidays as you wait for school to start again. But without any further ado, let's dive into these 10 holiday-themed kids' AI activities. |
| 1:49.8 | These were created through a collaboration between me, 5-1, and Gemini 3, of course. |
| 1:56.2 | The first project is a kid-authored interactive website will call My Year in Magic. The idea is a lightweight, single-page interactive website generated, of course, by AI through vibe coding, |
| 2:01.8 | that summarizes your child's year. The child provides the memories, and maybe the parent adds some images or |
| 2:06.3 | videos, and then AI handles the design, theme, copy, layout, animations, and a vibe. Ultimately, |
| 2:11.4 | what it turns into is a kind of digital scrapbook. Kids get to see their ideas and experiences |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nathaniel Whittemore, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Nathaniel Whittemore and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

