Free Printables for Kids Ages 8 to 12

Every free activity we make, in one place. Life skills, big feelings, money, friendship, and AI literacy, written for kids 8 to 12 and the grown-up sitting next to them. No account, no email, no download wall. Open one and print it.

54 free activities plus 19 printable PDFs, all on this page

Printable PDFs, ready to download

Every one of these downloads straight away. No email address, no account, no signup. Print them, copy them for a classroom, or pass them to another parent.

Big Feelings and Calming Down

The Calm-Down Toolkit (PDF, 542 KB)
A one-page toolkit for the moment a feeling gets bigger than the kid holding it. Print it and put it where they can reach it.
Meltdown Rescue Card (Age 8) (PDF, 427 KB)
One page for the fridge. Have it up before the next big wave, not during it.

Screens, Phones, and Money

The Family Screen-Spending Agreement (PDF, 638 KB)
Set the rules about in-game and in-app spending together, before the argument, and sign it as a family.
The First-Phone Family Agreement (PDF, 603 KB)
Before you hand over the first phone, get everyone on the same page in writing.

Friendships and Social Skills

The Friendship Repair Cheat Sheet (PDF, 565 KB)
What to say when a friendship breaks. One page, written for a kid to use without an adult in the room.

AI Safety and AI Rules

The Family AI Ground Rules (PDF, 634 KB)
A printable household agreement for how AI gets used in your home, written to be signed by everyone.
The Family AI Safety Guide (20 pages) (PDF, 6.9 MB)
Settings, scripts, and warning signs every parent of an 8-to-12-year-old needs to know.
Family AI Safety Checklist (PDF, 486 KB)
The safety protocols in checklist form, for working through in one sitting.

AI Activity Kits

The AI Family Activity Kit (19 pages) (PDF, 6.1 MB)
Ten hands-on activities that are not in the books. Printable, kid-tested, parent-approved.
The AI Family Builder's Kit (19 pages) (PDF, 6.7 MB)
Ten building activities that are not in the books, for the kid who would rather make than read.
The AI Family Creator's Kit (20 pages) (PDF, 6.6 MB)
Ten creative activities that are not in the books, for art, music, writing, and design.
AI Scavenger Hunt (PDF, 355 KB)
Can you find AI hiding in your everyday life? A two-page hunt for around the house.
AI Art Style Templates (PDF, 414 KB)
Pixel's guide to describing a creative style in words a machine can actually use.
AI Preference Tracker (PDF, 467 KB)
Algo's tracker for spotting the patterns a recommendation feed is learning about you.

Talking With Your Kid

Conversation Starter Guide, Age 10 (16 pages) (PDF, 7.6 MB)
Scripts for the hardest conversations with a ten-year-old.
Conversation Starter Guide, Age 9 (16 pages) (PDF, 7.6 MB)
Scripts for the hardest conversations with a nine-year-old.
The Nine-Year Change Guide (PDF, 943 KB)
Around nine, a lot of kids get harder on themselves, moodier, more separate. What is happening and what helps.
The Twelve-to-Thirteen Shift Guide (PDF, 1.1 MB)
What changes at the edge of the teen years, and how to stay someone your kid still talks to.

Life Skills by Age

The Life Skills Starter Kit (19 pages) (PDF, 5.8 MB)
Trackers, prompts, and milestones for the ten skill areas that shape who your kid becomes.

Want a kit emailed to you instead, with the follow-up guides? AI ground rules, screen spending, friendship repair, and calm-down toolkit each have an email version.

Big Feelings and Calming Down

For the moments a feeling gets bigger than the kid holding it.

Screens, Phones, and Money

The three arguments almost every family with an 8-to-12-year-old is already having.

Friendship and Getting Along

For the kid who has friends and cannot keep them, and the one who has none yet.

Confidence and Growing Up

Knowing what you are good at, deciding things on purpose, and where you are headed.

AI Safety and Spotting Fakes

What your kid needs before the first deepfake or AI scam reaches them, not after.

How AI Actually Works

Built by doing, not by being told. Every one of these ends with something they made.

Making Things With AI

Art, stories, games, and real projects, with the kid staying in charge of the idea.

Thinking For Yourself

The part that matters most, and the part AI is quietly making easier to skip.

Everything, Sorted by Age

One toolkit per age, matched to the book for that year.

Questions people ask

Do I have to give you an email address to use these?

No. Every activity page linked here is free to open, read, and print with nothing asked of you. A few of them offer a printable PDF version by email if you want it, but the full activity is always on the page itself.

What ages are these for?

Ages 8 to 12. The life skills activities come in two editions, one written for 9-year-olds and one for 10 and up, because a nine-year-old and a twelve-year-old need different words for the same idea.

Can teachers and homeschool parents use these in a classroom?

Yes. Print them, copy them for your own students, and use them however they help. We only ask that you link back here rather than rehosting the files somewhere else.

Do I need an AI account for the AI activities?

Most of them work with any free AI assistant, and several need no AI at all. Each activity says at the top what it needs before you start.

Where these came from

These activities are pulled from two book series. The printables stand on their own and always will. If your kid takes to one, the book is the whole thing rather than a taste of it.