playtime

Playtime

A Claude Code plugin that generates personalized morning activity packets for kids — one per kid, every night, ready to print before breakfast.

Connect-the-dots, mad libs, mazes, stories, crafts, kitchen science, mindfulness, pretend-play kits — tuned to each kid's age (in months for under-3), interests, current obsessions, learning goals, and your family's parenting framework.

Tracks what landed and what didn't. Gets better over time.

What it does

• Asks about your kids during setup — names, ages (granular), interests, learning goals, sensitivities, what materials you have on hand
• Lets you pick a parenting framework (Good Inside, Hunt-Gather-Parent, Bringing Up Bébé, Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia, RIE, Positive Discipline, Whole-Brain Child, Simplicity Parenting, Ross Greene, Faber-Mazlish) — quietly threads it into instructions, parent footers, and emotion-coaching scripts
• Generates one packet per kid — never the same activity twice, balanced across cognitive, creative, physical, social-emotional, and science domains
• Print-ready HTML — Cmd+P and you're done. Color or B&W, US Letter or A4
• Feedback loop — asks how yesterday landed; tracks per-kid history; weighs future activities by what's working
• Theme-aware — weekly themes, random variety, or event-driven (Grandma is visiting → portrait + interview prompts)

Slash commands

Command	What it does
/setup-playtime	First-time setup — household, kids, family + pets, stuffies, materials, frameworks, themes
/add-kid-to-playtime	Add another kid (with their stuffies)
/edit-kid-details	Update a kid's interests, goals, skills, stuffies as they grow
/edit-playtime-household	Update household-level info — family members, events, materials, frameworks, themes
/generate-playtime	Generate tomorrow's packets (collects feedback on yesterday first)
/playtime-checkup	Audit the profile for gaps and stale data; suggest fixes
/playtime-shop	Personalized supplies shopping list with affiliate-linked Amazon search URLs
/playtime-share	Convert a packet into shareable formats — share card (texting Grandma), PDF, or PNG/JPEG

How to install

Playtime works in any Claude Code surface — the desktop app, the terminal CLI, the web app, or the IDE extensions. It ships with a marketplace manifest (.claude-plugin/marketplace.json) so it installs through Claude Code's standard plugin workflow.

For a parent-friendly walkthrough (with the recommended desktop-app path), see dailyplaytime.com/install.

From inside Claude Code

In a Claude Code session (desktop app's Code tab, claude in your terminal, or claude.ai/code on the web), type these two slash commands:

/plugin marketplace add jtemps/playtime-plugin
/plugin install playtime@playtime-marketplace

That's it. To verify the plugin loaded, type /plugin to open the plugin manager.

From a local clone (developer mode)

If you want to hack on the plugin locally:

git clone https://github.com/jtemps/playtime-plugin.git ~/playtime-plugin

Then in a Claude Code session:

/plugin marketplace add ~/playtime-plugin
/plugin install playtime@playtime-marketplace

Once installed

The slash commands show up:

/playtime:setup-playtime
/playtime:add-kid-to-playtime
/playtime:edit-kid-details
/playtime:edit-playtime-household
/playtime:generate-playtime
/playtime:playtime-checkup
/playtime:playtime-shop
/playtime:playtime-share

Run /playtime:setup-playtime to begin.

Updating

In a Claude Code session:

/plugin marketplace update playtime-marketplace

(If you installed from a local clone, run git pull in ~/playtime-plugin first.)

How state works

All state lives at ~/.playtime/:

~/.playtime/
├── profile.json          # household + all kids
├── packets/              # generated packets, organized by date
│   └── YYYY-MM-DD/
│       └── <kid-name>.html
└── history.json          # feedback log + activity ledger

The plugin folder itself is stateless — clone it, share it, version-control it without leaking your kids' data.

Suggested rhythm

The packets are designed to be generated the night before so they're ready in the morning. A nice flow:

1. After dinner: run /generate-playtime
2. Tell Claude how yesterday's packet went (~30 seconds)
3. Claude generates tomorrow's packets
4. Open the HTML files, print them, leave them on the breakfast table
5. Wake up to small humans doing delightful things

You can also use the /schedule skill to wire up nightly auto-generation. Setup will offer this if you opt in.

Activity types

40+ types across: