An airport where every key sends one aircraft

Plane-obsessed is a phase with a wingspan. For a stretch somewhere around two, a great deal of household conversation is about which aircraft is overhead and where it is going, and no adult answer is ever quite detailed enough. This department hands the departures over.

Press anything and one aircraft leaves: a jet, a propeller plane, a helicopter, a balloon, a seaplane, a small freighter. Each physical key always sends the same one, so within a few minutes she is not banging, she is choosing — the same shift that turns a dropped spoon into an experiment about gravity. The board keeps up as the departures accumulate, and it keeps up in colour, because nothing on the child's side of this building asks anyone to read.

Three places to stand: the runway, the tower and the baggage belt. The tower is deliberately the grown-up's — holding a key sweeps its beam, which is the easiest seat to take without taking over. She launches, you sweep, and the room has two jobs in it instead of one. That is the entire co-play mechanic, and it is the reason the room exists in this shape.

No fail states, no scores, no air-traffic disasters, no siren. Nothing crashes, because nothing in this building can go wrong. Departures simply keep departing until somebody decides it is time to stop.

Free, no accounts, no data about your child, works offline once loaded. Ask where that one is going. There are no wrong answers, which is the point.

The Toddler Office — a free pretend office toddlers run by smashing the keyboard. Nothing breaks. No ads, no accounts.