Hi Matt,
Jupyter is indeed an excellent medium for teaching Python to kids. It is the perfect playground for experimenting and interacting with code.
However it appears to be oriented towards data scientists, so it needed a little push in the right direction and a bit of magic.
And this is why I wrote Jupylet - a library for programming games and music interactively in a Juypter notebook, specifically designed with kids in mind: https://github.com/nir/jupylet
It includes a collection of example notebooks and extensive documentation: https://jupylet.readthedocs.io/
Enjoy
