> I'm sorry, I know you put a lot of effort into this but I find it rather convoluted.

Don't worry about it! I'm very happy to receive criticism.

I tried to do it in this way because the task was to explain it to a 5-year old. I haven't (yet?) met a person that young who could understand an abstract language like Haskell. It's just not happening.

My explanation is probably indeed way too convoluted, but I still believe monads can be intuitively explained to a 5-year old somehow.