The After-School Kids' Club — The Kit

"What do we do now?"

That's the only question this book answers — and it answers it in about ten seconds.

WHY IT'S BUILT THIS WAY

A parent with thirty options makes no decision and reaches for the tablet. A parent with three bands decides in two seconds.

So every activity here is sorted by energy first:

• Calm — for a wired child who needs to come down
• Medium — for a child who's fine and needs something to do
• High — for a child who genuinely needs to burn it off

Read your child, pick the band, done.

WHAT'S INSIDE

38 activities. Every single one labelled with what you actually need to know before you start:

• the skill it builds
• materials required
• what to do
• what to say — the words that get them started
• a version that's easier
• a version that's harder
• safety notes where they matter
• an in-5-minutes variant for when you have five minutes

Household materials only. Nothing here requires a shopping trip. If you've got a kitchen and a recycling bin, you've got everything.

6 paper crafts — three paper aeroplanes, a boat that actually floats, a chatterbox, paper chains, stand-up animals, and cards to send. With diagrams.

8 blank pages — story frames, what happens next, drawing grids, dot-to-dots, and one completely empty page (sometimes that's the right answer).

Printables — the weekly planner, the daily check-in, the handoff page for whoever takes over at 5, what we did today, and the materials list that turns out to be almost nothing.

An activity index sorted four ways — by energy, by time, by mess, and by type — plus a rescue list for the days when nothing is working.

DETAILS

• 49 pages, illustrated throughout
• Ages 3–5
• Instant PDF download
• Pages are designed to be printed — the blank pages and printables only work on paper

The Guide — routines, twelve skill ladders and the scripts for when it all goes wrong — is sold separately, or as the complete set.