Coding for Kids
Are you looking for compelling Artificial Intelligence tutorials to share with your students? Looking for fun weekend activities as a parent?
Find these brand-new Hour of Code activities that use Tynker’s AI blocks to harness your computer’s webcam to create incredible, interactive effects and games. Hour of Code is coming sooner than you think! Get ready today.
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Tickle Monster
Use Tynker’s AI blocks to make a virtual monster come alive! Students create a character that responds to their hands. Extend the project on your own and create a virtual pet — or even a digital puppet.
Weather Control
Thunderbolts and lightning! In this fun weather-themed tutorial, students make an interactive art project that creates animations and sound effects in response to their gestures. Students learn how to use the Pose Tracking blocks to add webcam-powered user input to their Tynker projects.
Balancing Act
In this tutorial, students create a fun AI-powered balance game. How long will you last? Explore how AI allows for all new game mechanics! Explore game design and the physics blocks in this beginner-friendly project.
Fruit Fighter
Recreate your own version of the addictive mobile classic Fruit Ninja in this advanced text-coding tutorial. Use p5.js and AI to make this advanced webcam-powered project.
Tynker’s Hour of Code Classics
These are only the latest free Hour of Code projects from Tynker. Check out OVER 50 FREE Hour of Code activities to use with your kids or classroom — you’ll find time-tested Tynker crowd-pleasers like Candy Quest and Barbie™: You Can Be Anything as well as our collaborations with NASA, Monster High™, and Hot Wheels™.
Teachers can find the complete list of available Hour of Code activities here:
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More AI-Powered Courses and Activities
Looking for more free AI activities? Or some cool ideas for using the webcam in your own Tynker games? Explore these helpful resources:
- Add Webcam Controls to Your Tynker Games
- Tynker’s New AI & ML Course
- See All AI Tutorials and Courses: Visit Your Student Dashboard
- Walkthrough of The AI Blocks – AI Block Coding Tutorial
- Info for Parents on Block Coding: Introduction to AI & ML
- Info for Parents on JavaScript: Deep Dive into Artificial Intelligence
- Tynker’s AI Courses for Schools: Equip Your School with AI — All K-8 Plans Included
