At least you acknowledge some screen time unlike the puritans we have in this thread but i also suspect you're not in the most extreme of difficult parenting situations.

If you don't give kids a tablet and instead give them a stack of toys, the kids will grumble and eventually start playing with the toys.

Hell give a bunch of bored kids enough rocks and they'll find a way to build a small village out of said rocks using mud as a connecting material.