This is a bit out of left field - but I (offhandedly) showed my kid RoboHash: https://robohash.org/ https://robohash.org/ which he thought was _awesome_. He co

This is a bit out of left field - but I (offhandedly) showed my kid RoboHash: https://robohash.org/ https://robohash.org/ which he thought was _awesome_. He could type in words and generate robots, which is kind of like a super power to a kid. He asked me how it worked, and I used that to talk about some core programming concepts, including showing him some code. I wouldn't say he "learned" programming from that experience at all - but now he knows what code is, and sort of how programs are made, and he knows that you can make cool stuff like robots :) So I would say: find something they are really interested in (maybe that's Minecraft, or robots, or animation, etc) - and use that as a jumping off point to introduce the concepts to them.