Shop by age
Pick your child's age and see what fits right now. Everything here is paper: you print it at home, cut it out and play. Many of the sets suit more than one age, so you will see some of them twice.
Babies
Birth to 12 monthsA baby's favorite thing to look at is a face. These are for the person holding the baby.
The Four Commitments
One page for the fridge: four small promises a grown-up makes about faces, talk, play and their own phone.
52 Play & Talk Cards
A deck of small things to say and do during a diaper change, a feed or a walk around the block.
Screen-Free Room Sign and Pledge Certificates
A sign for the nursery door, so everyone who comes in knows the phones wait outside.
Toddlers
1 and 2 yearsEverything gets carried, dumped out and done again. These keep hands busy with what is already in the house.
150 “I’m Bored” Play Cards
Pull a card and play: a laundry basket boat, a sock toss, a parade down the hall. The cards start at age 1.
52 Play & Talk Cards
One card a day gives you a game to play together and a few words to say while you play it.
239 Visual Routine Cards and Charts
Picture cards for getting dressed, mealtimes and bedtime, so a toddler can see what comes next.
24 Days of Play: Winter Countdown
From age 2: one small indoor play a day for the dark months, like a paper snowball toss or a blanket bear cave.
Car Ride & Waiting Pack
Fifteen things to do in the car and ten for the waiting room, with nothing to charge.
The Four Commitments
Free. One page of four promises the grown-ups make, for the fridge or the child-care cubby.
Preschoolers
3 to 5 yearsThey want a job, a turn and a story. These give them all three.
The Add-One Chain Game Kit
A story game: each player repeats the chain and adds one more thing. It grows until everyone is laughing.
24 Days of Play: Winter Countdown
Twenty-four plays for winter with a board to color after each one. Most need nothing bought.
239 Visual Routine Cards and Charts
Morning, school-day and bedtime charts a preschooler can check off without being asked twice.
150 “I’m Bored” Play Cards
For the moment someone says “I'm bored”: 150 cards sorted by indoors, outdoors and quiet time.
52 Play & Talk Cards
Fifty-two games and questions for the hour between pickup and dinner.
Screen-Free Room Sign and Pledge Certificates
A sign for the playroom door, and pledge certificates a preschooler can sign with their own name.
Big kids
6 to 12 yearsOld enough to run the game themselves, and to notice when the grown-ups are on their phones.
150 “I’m Bored” Play Cards
They pick the card and set it up themselves. The harder versions on each card suit children up to 12.
52 Play & Talk Cards
The second deck in this set is 52 talk-along cards for families with children aged 5 to 12.
Car Ride & Waiting Pack
Road games and table games for long drives and slow restaurants, plus a wallet card for a no-signal day.
The whole table
Every age, togetherFor dinners with a baby at one end and a grandparent at the other.
Table Talk for Thanksgiving
Thirty-six questions to pass around the Thanksgiving table, with a place for the phones to wait.
Holiday Table Talk
Conversation cards for winter holiday meals. A grown-up reads, and everyone answers.
Car Ride & Waiting Pack
For the drive there and the wait for the food: turns that need only the people in the car.
Virtual Autism: What Happens When the Screens Go Off
The book by Adam Linmore for parents of babies, toddlers and preschoolers, with a 30-day plan for filling the hours with play and talk. Also in paperback and hardcover.
For the grown-ups
Sweatshirts, totes, stickers and signs for the parents, grandparents and teachers who keep the screens off.
The printables are PDF files sold through Teachers Pay Teachers. You will need a free account there to download them. Prices are in US dollars.
A grown-up is always with the child during play. Cut-out cards and small pieces are for grown-up hands around children under 3.
Written and designed by us with the help of AI tools.
“Virtual Autism” is not a medical diagnosis. These are play materials, not treatment, and not medical advice.