Coding for Kids
Celebrate Black History With Code!
Did you know that Black women were some of the first computer programmers?
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Celebrate Thanksgiving with Coding Projects!
Kids are out of school and have plenty of time on their hands. In addition to spending quality time...
Frightening Halloween Coding Projects!
It’s almost time for Halloween so get into the scary season by learning the programming concepts needed to complete...
The Summer Code Jam 2023!
We are thrilled to announce that Tynker’s Summer Code Jam is back! Code Jam is one of the year’s...
Celebrate Every Kind of Mom!
Celebrate every kind of mom — whether you’re a mother, a teacher, a guardian, or a supportive friend and...
Make a Fun Earth Day Game for Kids Online
Earth Day! It’s a great time to learn about the earth, reflect on how our actions affect the environment,...
BYJU’S Coding Cup Competition Prizes!
BYJU’S global coding competition is underway and we’re giving out cash and prizes totaling over $20,000 USD. Open to...
Teach Kids About New Year’s Resolutions with Code!
Ever wondered how you can help your child understand what the word “resolution” means? With this New Year’s seasonal...
How to Program Music for Beethoven’s Birthday
In December 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven was born in modern-day Germany, then a part of the Holy Roman Empire....
Learn To Code Over The Holidays!
Winter is coming! Which means so is the Winter Holiday. This break from school is a great time for...
Holiday Coding Activities for Kids
School breaks are coming up, and your kids will have plenty of time on their hands to play, read,...
It’s TRAINING DAY, an Epic Course to Complete Tynker’s Minecraft Trilogy
Tynker is excited to announce the launch of our latest Minecraft coding course, Training Day, where young coders will...
Play Halloween Games and Create With Code
Celebrate and create with code! Holidays are wonderful occasions for encouraging kids to create. From homemade greeting cards to...
Code with Monsters this Halloween!
Get coding with our fun Halloween programming activities! Start with a set of 20 puzzles, a music video do-it-yourself project, or a...
How to Code Your Own Spooky Halloween Project!
Looking for a unique way for your kids to collect candy (and avoid cavities) this year? We’ve got you...
Learn to Code with Fun Halloween Activities
Imagine their excitement as kids create or add to the story game we’ve started (take a look!), not to...
Halloween Coding Activities for Creating Your Own Halloween Game
For Halloween, your students can express their creative sides by making a fun Halloween coding game from one of...
Program Your Own 4th of July Fireworks!
Enjoy safe fireworks without any dust, soot or smoke by designing your own special effects in this fun project...
Code a Fun Burger-Building Game for Father’s Day!
Father’s Day is a special time to celebrate all the fathers and other role models in your kids’ or...
Code a Virtual Golf Game to Celebrate Father’s Day!
Father’s Day is this Sunday, and there’s no better way for Dad and the kids to spend some quality...
Code with Your Child for Father’s Day
Father’s Day is a great time for your kids to spend quality time with their father or other important...
Put a Creative Spin on Father’s Day Festivities With Tynker!
Father’s Day is coming right up! It’s the perfect day for kids to spend quality time with their fathers...
Make A Fun Card for Dad
A fun project just for dad! Follow easy instructions to customize the card with a personal message. It’s easy...
Code a Funny Mad Libs® Story for Mom!
This Mother’s Day, create a hilarious gift that Mom is sure to love – a Mad Libs–style story!
Create a Message for Mom
This Mother’s Day, kids can show their appreciation for Mom, Grandma and more by coding Tynker’s quick and easy...
Celebrate Your Mother Using Digital Storytelling
Mother’s Day is about so much more than flowers and jewelry. For Mother’s Day, your students can use code...
Happy Mother’s Day!
In honor of all the wonderful mothers across the world, Tynker would like to say thank you! Here are...
Code a Solar Power Clicker Game for Earth Day!
Earth Day is on April 22, and there’s no better time to celebrate our amazing planet.
Earth Day: Coding Games to Create Change
Earth Day is celebrated around the world on April 22, and it’s a perfect time to raise our kids’...
“Spring” into Coding!
Budding flowers and warmer weather can spark a fresh outlook. Why not encourage your child to explore new activities?...
Your April Fools’ Day Coding Present Has Arrived
On April Fools’ Day, your students can play a good-hearted prank on their friends and parents by completing and...
Code an April Fools’ Day Prank!
For April Fools’ Day, your students can create their own pranks using coding! They’ll follow step-by-step instructions to create what...
Code Your Own Pranks to Celebrate April Fools’ Day!
April Fools’ Day is the perfect time to play fun pranks on friends and family – this year, we’re…
Create Code Poetry for World Poetry Day
Create Code Poetry for World Poetry Day March 21 is World Poetry Day, and we wanted to celebrate the...
Celebrate and Create – with Leprechauns!
What’s better than playing games? Making them! With Tynker’s powerful creativity tools, kids can make games that are as…
A Little Fun on Pi day?
Pi Day is celebrated around the world on March 14th. Through the ages people have been fascinated by this...
A Fun Project for Pi Day
A Fun Project for Pi Day March 14 is recognized internationally as Pi Day, a day to celebrate the...
Use Code to Bake a Perfect “Pi” this Pi Day!
Do you know why March 14 is known as Pi Day? If you paid attention in math class, you…
A Fun Coding Project for St. Patrick’s Day!
A Fun Coding Project for St. Patrick’s Day! Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by coding a fun game for the...
Three Fun Coding Projects for Pi Day
Three Fun Coding Projects for Pi Day March 14th is Pi Day! It’s a time for eating pie and...
Code a Trivia Game for Presidents Day!
Code a Trivia Game for Presidents Day! Presidents Day is a United States federal holiday that is celebrated on...
Valentine’s Day Play (with Code!)
Play and celebrate Valentine’s Day! Enjoy these student projects (plus our Valentine’s Day themed game). You can introduce the...
A Gift This Valentine’s Day – For Your Kids!
A Gift This Valentine’s Day – For Your Kids! Sunday, February 14th is Valentine’s Day, the day when we...
Inspire Your Child to Show They Care–With Code!
Inspire Your Child to Show They Care–With Code! Valentine’s Day is all about connecting with others and sharing how...
Spread the Love Valentine’s Day Card
Spread the Love Happy Valentine’s Day from Tynker! We love Valentine’s Day because it’s a reminder to reach out...
Code Your Heart Out This Valentine’s Day!
There’s something for everyone on Tynker this Valentine’s Day – with our three fun coding projects (ranging from beginner…
Create to Celebrate Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s day is just around the corner! Beyond the hearts, chocolates, cards and candy, it’s a wonderful way to...
Tynker Video Code Jam
Tynker Video Code Jam Last year, Tynker had thousands of submissions to our three Code Jams and handed out...
Fall in Love with Coding for Valentine’s Day!
Fall in Love with Coding for Valentine’s Day! Happy Valentine’s Day from Tynker! We’ve created some fun new coding projects...
Celebrate Groundhog Day with Code!
Code your own Groundhog Day project with our guided tutorial and see if you can make the groundhog see…
A Coding Project to Honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day
A Coding Project to Honor MLK Day The third Monday of January is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, an...
BOO! It’s time for Tynker’s Halloween Code Jam 2020!
No tricks here, just a big treat! So many of the participants of our Summer Code Jam told us...
TYNKER SUMMER CODE JAM!
TYNKER SUMMER CODE JAM! Summer’s here and so is the hottest coding competition of the year. This time around,...
Announcing the Wild Minecraft Code-a-Thon!
Announcing the Wild Minecraft Code-a-Thon! The biggest event of the summer is here! Tynker and Minecraft have joined forces...
Seasonal Project Highlights
Seasonal Project Highlights Since the beginning of this year, Tynker makers have coded over 1,779,488 projects! Among these projects...
New Year’s Resolutions – Highlighted Projects
New Year’s Resolutions — Highlighted Projects Our recent seasonal project, “New Year’s Resolution,” was used by kids all over...
Skate with a Penguin in Ice Art!
Skate with a Penguin in Ice Art! The air is freezing outside, and it’s time to go ice skating!...
Code a Thanksgiving Turkey Game!
Code a Thanksgiving Turkey Game in Gobble Trouble! It’s almost time for Thanksgiving dinner, which means that all the...
Code for Free with the 2018 Tynker Summer Code-A-Thon!
Summer is almost here – and if you’re like most parents, you’re looking for fun ways to keep your…
Code Your Own Snowy Winter Project!
We’ve launched into winter, and there’s no better time to get cozy and practice coding! Your kids will have…
How to Code Your Own Autumn Leaves Project!
How to Code Your Own Autumn Leaves Project! Fall is quickly approaching, and it’ll soon be the season of...
Week 10 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Show Us Your Best!
Week 10 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Show Us Your Best! Summer flew by – it’s already Week 10 of the...
Week 9 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Who’s Your Hero?
Week 9 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Who’s Your Hero? It’s Week 9 of the Summer Code-A-Thon! This week we ask kids...
Week 8 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Teach Us Something!
Week 8 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Teach Us Something! It’s already week 8 of the Summer Code-A-Thon! This week’s theme...
Week 7 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Pets!
Week 7 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Create a Project About Pets! Week 7 of the Summer Code-A-Thon is upon us!...
Week 6 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Create a Game!
Week 6 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Create a Game! It’s Week 6 of the Summer Code-A-Thon! Summer is a great...
Week 4 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Fireworks Celebration
Week 4 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Fireworks Celebration For Week 4 of the Summer Code-A-Thon, we’re challenging kids to make...
Week 3 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Change the World!
Week 3 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Change the World! For Week 3 of the Summer Code-A-Thon, we’re asking kids a...
Week 2 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Tell Us Your Best Joke!
Week 2 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Tell Us Your Best Joke! It’s week 2 of the Summer Code-A-Thon! Last week,...
Week 1 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Code a Summer Celebration!
Week 1 Summer Code-A-Thon Challenge: Code a Summer Celebration! The Summer Code-A-Thon is live, and already we’re seeing so...
Free Coding Program to Keep Your Child’s Mind Sharp This Summer!
Free Coding Program to Keep Your Child’s Mind Sharp This Summer! We know that summer can be a challenge for...
Stuck inside on a snowy day? Try this fun winter coding project!
Stuck inside on a snowy day? Try this fun winter coding project! For those of us in the Northern...
A Coding Project to Celebrate the Chinese New Year!
A Coding Project to Celebrate the Chinese New Year! Happy Chinese New Year! 2017 will be the year of the rooster....
A “What I Did This Summer” Project for 21st Century Learners
A “What I Did This Summer” Project for 21st Century Learners This back-to-school season, your students can recap their...
Program Your Own Fireworks Show in Minecraft
Program Your Own Fireworks Show in Minecraft This 4th of July, use coding to safely shoot off fireworks from...
Spring Is Here With a Fun Coding Project!
Spring Is Here With a Fun Coding Project! It’s springtime! Flowers are staring to peek out of the snow,...
Give Thanks with Code
Give Thanks with Code Ah, Thanksgiving break. A time to relax, give thanks for friends and family, and eat...
Using Physics with Tynker: Part 2
Using Physics with Tynker: Part 2 Tynker’s Physics Engine allows kids to easily make all kinds of fun games, including this...
Using Physics with Tynker: Part 1
Using Physics with Tynker: Part 1 Tynker’s Physics Engine allows children to make fun games using properties like bounciness,...
Design Your Own Adventure-Filled Platformer
Design your own adventure-filled platformer with robot bugs, giant bosses, zombies, dragons and anything you can imagine using this...
Space Cow – A Physics Puzzle Game
Ever wanted to build a space game with physics? Here’s a fun game where you help Daisy the space cow fling asteroids...
Bad Guy Bowling
Bad Guy Bowling is a fun multi-level game to build and play. In each level, bad guys are set up...
Build an Adventure-Based Platformer Game
Kids will be amazed at the variety of super cool games they can make as they learn programming with...
Build an Arcade Space Shooter
In Tynker’s Coding Adventures, as kids explore each game world they’ll have the opportunity to build different types of...
Create a Pattern Maker
There are so many ways kids can express themselves and bring their creativity to life through code! Here’s an...
Build a Bug Catcher Game
An easy game to get kids jazzed about programming is “Bug Catcher”, built by kids as they solve the...
Build a Parallax Scrolling Jetfighter Game
Kids will have lots of fun building games this summer with our new Coding Adventures! Here’s an example of...
Build An Interactive Comic Cartoon
Kids learn valuable programming skills as they create a variety of projects in our new Coding Adventures. Encourage creative...
Build a Classic Arcade-Style game
We have even more to share from our new Coding Adventures! To make coding uber-fun for kids, we’ve integrated...
Build a Scavenger Hunt Game
Each game world in Tynker’s Coding Adventures draws kids in with an exciting new storyline. Kids are given a...
Build a Memory Game
Kids love playing games — all kinds of games! Here’s another sneak peek you can share with your kids,...
Build your own top-down RPG
Build Your Own Top-Down RPG Kids can build their own role-playing games (RPGs) from a top-down perspective using the...
Build a Multi-Level Platformer Game
In Tynker’s new Coding Adventures, available only on Kickstarter, kids build different types of games as they explore each game...
Science Fair Project Ideas Using Tynker’s Physics Engine
Science fair season is upon us which means it’s time to put on our scientific method thinking caps and...
Kids Can Create Holiday Gifts with Code
by Jennifer Apy My mother always encouraged my sister, brother and me to make our own cards and gifts....
Seasonal Coding Projects
