Is 7, nearly 8, too old for this?
It used to work. Now dd sometimes spends most of a 2-3h block on it. And she throws anything she can reach.
We're at our wits' ends - and our tethers' ends!
The irony is that she usually works out why she was sent, what she should have done and what she needs to do, and comes back to sort it out - all by herself; yet minutes later she's doing the same thing again.