I think you nailed it my friend. That's exactly what was going through my mind as I saw myself trying to teach her what a variable is. My boys were playing with Legos and I was drinking coffee so I'm like alright, let's try that. We went through other analogies that I didn't blog about but one of them was how the whole IDE window (XCode) is like a table that you draw on and how a program is like a drawing you make in art class. So the purpose of coding is to use an IDE to create programs just like in art class you draw on a table and create art work. Also, just like you need pencils, colors, etc, in coding you need variables, methods, etc.

Kids get stuff like this really fast.