diff --git a/public/dart/fuchsia_inspect/examples/inspect_mod/lib/src/inspect_example_app.dart b/public/dart/fuchsia_inspect/examples/inspect_mod/lib/src/inspect_example_app.dart
index ab39857..dd9c569 100644
--- a/public/dart/fuchsia_inspect/examples/inspect_mod/lib/src/inspect_example_app.dart
+++ b/public/dart/fuchsia_inspect/examples/inspect_mod/lib/src/inspect_example_app.dart
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
 class InspectExampleApp extends StatelessWidget {
   static const _appColor = Colors.blue;
 
-  final inspect.Node _inspect;
+  final inspect.Node _inspectNode;
 
-  InspectExampleApp(this._inspect) {
+  InspectExampleApp(this._inspectNode) {
     _initMetrics();
   }
 
@@ -22,20 +22,25 @@
       theme: ThemeData(
         primarySwatch: _appColor,
       ),
-      home: _InspectHomePage(title: 'Hello Inspect!'),
+      home: _InspectHomePage(
+          title: 'Hello Inspect!',
+          inspectNode: _inspectNode.createChild('home-page')),
     );
   }
 
   /// Initializes the [Inspect] metrics for this widget.
   void _initMetrics() {
-    _inspect.createStringProperty('app-color').value = '$_appColor';
+    _inspectNode.createStringProperty('app-color').value = '$_appColor';
   }
 }
 
 class _InspectHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
   final String title;
+  final inspect.Node inspectNode;
 
-  _InspectHomePage({Key key, this.title}) : super(key: key);
+  _InspectHomePage({Key key, this.title, this.inspectNode}) : super(key: key) {
+    inspectNode.createStringProperty('title').value = title;
+  }
 
   @override
   _InspectHomePageState createState() => _InspectHomePageState();
diff --git a/public/dart/fuchsia_inspect/lib/src/node.dart b/public/dart/fuchsia_inspect/lib/src/node.dart
index 180d742..b940830 100644
--- a/public/dart/fuchsia_inspect/lib/src/node.dart
+++ b/public/dart/fuchsia_inspect/lib/src/node.dart
@@ -8,14 +8,25 @@
 
 /// A node in the [Inspect] tree that can have associated key-values (KVs).
 class Node {
+  // TODO(CF-602): Refactor this to hide implementation details like this index
+  // and the public constructor below (since client code should only create
+  // Nodes using [createChild].
   /// The VMO index of this node.
-  final int _index;
+  @visibleForTesting
+  final int index;
 
   /// The writer for the VMO that backs this node.
   final VmoWriter _writer;
 
   /// Creates a [Node] with the VMO [index] and [writer].
-  Node(this._index, this._writer);
+  Node(this.index, this._writer);
+
+  /// Creates a child [Node] with [name].
+  ///
+  /// This method is not idempotent: calling it multiple times with the same
+  /// [name] will create multiple children with the same name.
+  Node createChild(String name) =>
+      Node(_writer.createNode(index, name), _writer);
 
   /// Creates a [StringProperty] with [name] on this node.
   ///
@@ -23,7 +34,7 @@
   /// idempotent and calling it multiple times with the same [name] will
   /// create multiple [StringProperty]s.
   StringProperty createStringProperty(String name) =>
-      StringProperty(name, _index, _writer);
+      StringProperty(name, index, _writer);
 }
 
 /// A VMO-backed key-value pair with a string key and string value.
diff --git a/public/dart/fuchsia_inspect/test/node_test.dart b/public/dart/fuchsia_inspect/test/node_test.dart
index bccc7bc..b76aec7 100644
--- a/public/dart/fuchsia_inspect/test/node_test.dart
+++ b/public/dart/fuchsia_inspect/test/node_test.dart
@@ -22,6 +22,20 @@
     node = Node(writer.rootNode, writer);
   });
 
+  test('Child nodes have unique indices from their parents', () {
+    var childNode = node.createChild('banana');
+
+    expect(childNode, isNotNull);
+    expect(childNode.index, isNot(node.index));
+  });
+
+  test('Child nodes have unique indices from their siblings', () {
+    var child1 = node.createChild('thing1');
+    var child2 = node.createChild('thing2');
+
+    expect(child1.index, isNot(child2.index));
+  });
+
   test('String properties are written to the VMO when the value is set', () {
     var property = node.createStringProperty('color')..value = 'fuchsia';