Programs & challenges
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ScratchJr
A playful first coding app where young children create interactive stories and games with picture-based programming blocks.
Getty Education
K-12 art learning resources, online field trips, teacher programs, and teen creative experiences from Getty.
British Museum Family Visits
Free family activities, museum missions, explorer trails, activity backpacks, workshops, and family facilities at the British Museum.
BBC 500 Words
A children's story-writing project for ages 5-11 with prompts, classroom resources, story inspiration, and annual submissions.
Children’s Museum Jordan
A nonprofit children’s museum with interactive exhibits, science and art experiences, family programs, and a mobile museum that brings learning activities to children across Jordan.
Snap!
A browser-based visual programming language that extends Scratch with custom blocks and deeper computer-science ideas.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Education
Wildlife, conservation, and outdoor-learning programs for children, families, educators, and schools from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Brooklyn Museum Families & Kids
Family programs, art activities, coloring, mini lessons, and free museum access for young visitors at Brooklyn Museum.
Cleveland Museum of Art Learning
Art tours, hands-on making, family programs, and community learning from the Cleveland Museum of Art.
New York Public Library Learning
Storytimes, STEAM kits, reading recommendations, family activities, and free learning programs from NYPL.
NYC Discovery Lab
Free weekend museum activities for children ages 5-12 and adults, combining gallery exploration with hands-on art, culture, and history projects.
KID Museum
A hands-on maker museum with coding, robotics, engineering, electronics, woodshop, textiles, and design challenges.
Morris Museum Spark!Lab
A Smithsonian invention workspace where children ages 5 to 12 imagine, design, test, and improve ideas.
Raspberry Pi Code Club Projects
More than 200 free step-by-step coding and creative-technology projects covering Scratch, Python, web development, AI, physical computing, nature, music, art, and science.
ScratchJr
ScratchJr is a free introductory programming environment for young children. The official MIT project page describes a block-based app for ages 5–7 that lets children create interactive stories and games.
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Families
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew’s Families page combines the Children’s Garden, family nature activities, learning cards, trails, scientist backpacks, music and movement, and inclusive resources for family visits.
micro:bit Teach Featured
The official micro:bit Teach Featured hub gathers age-banded units of work, coding projects, AI-literacy lessons, design challenges, classroom resources, events, and free professional-development courses for young learners and educators.
NGV Teachers and Students
The National Gallery of Victoria provides school learning programmes, self-guided visits, classroom connections, and art-and-design experiences for students and teachers.
Royal Academy Learning
Art learning resources, school visits, teacher support, and free creative programmes from the Royal Academy of Arts.
The Story Museum
A family museum in Oxford with immersive story spaces, picture-book play, exhibitions, and story-led events for children.
MoMA Family Programs
Family-friendly art experiences, conversations, and creative programs from The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Boston Children's Museum STEAM Lab
Hands-on science, technology, engineering, art, and math activities that encourage creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking.
The Met Kids & Families
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s family hub combines #MetKids digital exploration, family guides, an audio guide for ages 6–12, and interactive museum programs for children and caregivers.
MoMA At-home Activities
The Museum of Modern Art’s family activity hub offers art-making ideas, film screenings, book ideas, and on-demand programs for kids and families, including a direct official YouTube playlist.
Baltimore Museum of Art Free Family Sundays
The Baltimore Museum of Art’s weekly family art program and at-home projects invite children and caregivers to make, observe, and talk about art together.
Whitney Kids Art Challenge
The Whitney Museum of American Art’s Kids Art Challenge offers art-making prompts for kids and grown-ups inspired by works in the museum’s collection.
New York Botanical Garden For Families
The New York Botanical Garden’s family page connects children and caregivers with garden-based learning, seasonal activities, and programs that make plants, nature, and creativity part of family visits.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Kids & Families
Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Kids & Families page brings together family activities and learning opportunities that encourage children to observe plants, seasons, gardens, and the natural world.
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Early Learning Programs
The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh offers early-learning programs for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and caregivers, alongside museum@home activities and sensory-friendly options.
Alice
A creative programming environment for building 3D stories, animations, and games while learning computational thinking and object-oriented programming.
Pencil Code
A free collaborative coding space for drawing, music, games, stories, webpages, math, and creative programming.
New York State Museum Education
Museum-backed art, science, history, and family learning programs with online activities, videos, lessons, and teacher guides.
Royal Shakespeare Company Learning
Creative Shakespeare and theatre learning for young people, schools, teachers, and families, with curriculum resources and youth programmes.
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
A three-floor children’s museum with interactive exhibits and hands-on cultural and science programs for children ages 6 months to 10 years.
NCMA Virtual Field Trips for Diverse Learners
North Carolina Museum of Art virtual field-trip programs support students with disabilities and diverse learning needs through art observation, multiple-choice communication, captioning, ASL interpretation, and audio description.
MoMu Family Visit
MoMu Fashion Museum Antwerp’s family guide offers playful exhibition activities, family Sundays, children’s workshops, a Kids Corner, and online games and trails. Visitors under 18 are admitted free.
Early Start Discovery Space
The University of Wollongong’s Early Start Discovery Space is a research-backed children’s museum with interactive play experiences, public programmes, and learn-through-play opportunities for young children and their adults.
MoMA Heyman Family Programs
MoMA’s Heyman Family Programs provide family art adventures with free admission for children 16 and under, kids’ audio, activity guides, family gallery talks, hands-on spaces, and online programmes.
Block Coding Lab
Free interactive programming games that teach sequences, loops, logic, CSS, JavaScript, and procedural drawing through browser puzzles and learning paths.
CU Museum Children and Family Programs
The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History offers hands-on science and art activities, family programs, Discovery Corner access, and English/Spanish resources.
Museum of Brisbane MoB Kids @Home
Museum of Brisbane’s MoB Kids @Home collection gives children and families free downloadable activities including colouring, comprehension, sewing, collage, and LEGO challenges.
University of Alaska Museum Family Programs
The University of Alaska Museum of the North offers hands-on family learning programs and home activities connecting children with science, history, culture, art, and Alaska collections.
Take One Picture
Take One Picture is the National Gallery’s national primary-school programme, using one artwork from the collection to inspire cross-curricular classroom work, project stages, teacher learning, and exhibitions.
Royal Academy Young Artists’ Summer Show
The Royal Academy’s Young Artists’ Summer Show is a free online exhibition of artwork by young artists aged 4–18, selected from a large national submission and presented through the official exhibition site.
Atlanta Botanical Garden Playtime
Hands-on nature play, sensory stations, stories, music, and family activities in the Children's Garden.
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Digital Learning
The MFA Boston’s digital learning collection provides art activities for children and families, age-labelled home programs, storytelling, studio tutorials, videos, and art connections cards.
Code Club World
The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s free coding game hub helps children make characters, T-shirts, music, games, art, websites, and more while earning project badges.
Miami Children’s Museum
An interactive museum in Miami where children ages 0–6 explore arts, science, and culture through exhibits, programs, play, and family learning experiences.
PlayWorks™ — Children’s Museum of Manhattan
A birth-to-four learning space combining music, movement, stories, sensory art, puzzles, engineering, and pretend play through daily programs.
The New Children’s Museum Creative Resources
The New Children’s Museum’s Creative Resources page offers hands-on design challenges, printable coloring, lesson plans, virtual art experiences, and museum-inspired ideas for making at home.
Wichita Art Museum Youth and Family Programs
Wichita Art Museum’s youth and family page brings together free gallery activities, PLAY, StoryTime, YogaTime, preschool art, Family ArtVenture, camps, and at-home projects.
Texas State Parks Junior Ranger
Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Junior Ranger programme uses journals, explorer packs, nature observation, drawing, and state-park activities to help children explore the outdoors.
Virtual Early Explorers
The University of Alaska Museum of the North’s Virtual Early Explorers programme provides themed activities and at-home tips for children five and under with an adult, including animals, art, light, water, pollinators, and the solar system.
BCM+You
Brooklyn Children’s Museum’s BCM+You brings exhibits, programmes, animal friends, collection objects, and family art and science activities into an at-home learning collection.
Cleveland Museum of Art Engage and Create
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Engage and Create collection offers weekly creative challenges, drawing prompts, games, music, stories, and family activities inspired by the museum collection.
Baltimore Museum of Art Family Activities
Baltimore Museum of Art’s family page combines free online art activities, family programmes, visit tips, and open-ended prompts that help children and adults look closely, tell stories, and make art together.
Dallas Museum of Art Free Family Fun
The Dallas Museum of Art’s family resource page combines gallery guides, Art to Go totes, Arturo’s Library Totes, toddler programming, Open Studio, and Pop-Up Art Spot activities.
Museum of the City of New York Family and Community
The Museum of the City of New York’s Family and Community page presents family learning opportunities that use the city’s history, people, and collections as starting points for conversation and creative exploration.
DevTech Children and Families
Boston College’s DevTech Research Group offers family coding activities using ScratchJr and KIBO, including family coding days, beginner workshops, and child-friendly robotics and storytelling projects.
Carlos Museum Family Programs
Emory’s Michael C. Carlos Museum family guide with free online activities, gallery guides, SmARTy Packs, and hands-on programs connected to world cultures and collections.
TurtleStitch
A free, open-source coding and textile platform where learners turn visual programs into embroidery patterns and physical designs.
London Children's Museum
Hands-on play, art, science, early learning, family programs, and child-led exhibits at a children's museum in London, Ontario.
Kids Art Studio — Museum of the City of New York
A hands-on drop-in art program inspired by the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibitions and collection, with collage, drawing, fiber art, and storytelling for children ages 3 and up.
Akron Children’s Museum Virtual Field Trip
A virtual museum experience for kindergarten through fifth grade with challenges, games, cooking, movement, art, and financial-literacy activities aligned with Ohio learning standards.
Heckscher Museum Kids & Families
The Heckscher Museum of Art’s family page highlights Digital Action Painting, an in-gallery activity station, family events, and its virtual H@H Kids art activity video series.
National Gallery Prague Families and Kids
National Gallery Prague’s Families and Kids programme offers playrooms for young children, art studios, weekend workshops, summer studios, and family ways to explore original artworks.
KokeLab
KokeLab offers kids learning games and projects in programming, math, science, and drawing, with a free-to-start browser experience aimed at ages 4–12.
California State Parks Junior Ranger Program
California State Parks’ Junior Ranger page connects ages 7–12 with staff-led and self-guided programmes, nature and history activities, adventure guides, and badge/logbook rewards.
Buffalo AKG at Home
Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s at-home collection offers kids’ and family art activities, virtual events, collection exploration, public-art videos, and inquiry-based lessons.
Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Virtual School Programs
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis offers live virtual programmes for school groups, with standards-based STEM, arts, humanities, and history topics for grades K–8.
SEA LIFE Sydney Virtual Aquarium
SEA LIFE Sydney’s virtual aquarium hub combines keeper streams, activity sheets, craft activities, downloadables, and family wildlife challenges.
Cooper Hewitt Design Field Trips
Cooper Hewitt’s design field-trip information introduces students to design thinking and museum-based learning through guided visits and activities.
Cincinnati Art Museum Family Programs
Cincinnati Art Museum Family Programs include art-making, family studio sessions, story programs, baby tours, activity kits, and age-specific events for children and caregivers.
ImaginAsia
ImaginAsia at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art offers family open studios, Art & Me, family and tween workshops, festivals, camps, and printable art activities.
Whitney Open Studio
Whitney Open Studio is a recurring family art-making program where children and caregivers create projects inspired by the Whitney collection and exhibitions.
Art Kids — Philadelphia Museum of Art
Family art experiences, drop-in studio activities, tours, Little Art Kids sessions, and age-banded museum classes from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Museo Pambata
The Philippines’ first interactive children’s museum, using exhibits, programs, and events to make cultural and environmental learning fun and hands-on.
OC Public Libraries Kids & Family
Orange County Public Libraries’ kids and family hub offers library services, reading and learning links, children’s programming, and digital resources for young patrons.
National Endowment for the Arts: Arts Education
The National Endowment for the Arts arts-education hub explains federal arts learning work, research, grants, and resources that support children, schools, and communities.
PAFA Family Art Day
PAFA Family Art Day is a recurring museum program with free family art workshops led by professional artists and a museum visit included with advance registration.
Bronx Museum Family Programs
The Bronx Museum Family Programs offer free art-making activities inspired by current exhibitions, facilitated by museum educators and designed for families with young children.
Glazer Children’s Museum
Glazer Children’s Museum is a hands-on learning museum where children and families explore play-based exhibits, storytime, camps, field trips, and STEAM programs.
MOCHA Open Studio
MOCHA Open Studio invites children ages 0–10 to explore materials and create freely with family support, with staff available to help children get started.
Markham Public Library Learning Place
A public-library program hub for children and families with age-banded STEAM, coding, animation, and creative technology learning opportunities.
Museum of Solutions
Mumbai’s Museum of Solutions is a large hands-on learning space where children explore STEAM, sustainability, design, systems thinking, and real-world challenges through exhibits and programmes.
Albuquerque Museum Youth & Family Programs
Albuquerque Museum Youth & Family Programs connect children and families with art, history, and New Mexico culture through Museum School classes, family art workshops, and recurring events.
My Creature
An interactive browser world where children can move a creature, explore a biome, follow short missions, and use dress-up and game controls for open-ended family play.
The Music Podcast for Kids
The Music Podcast for Kids is a child-focused show hosted by Mr. Henry and Mr. Fite that explores music styles, genres, music from around the world, and listening challenges for families and classrooms.
Maker Camp
Project-based making activities that combine science, engineering, art, and creative problem solving.
Andy Warhol Word Find
A printable word-find activity built around Andy Warhol's art and vocabulary, including Pop Art, Campbell's Soup Cans, Brillo Boxes, and screen printing.
Famous Artist Crossword
A printable crossword puzzle about famous artists, with clues connected to artists and artworks including the Mona Lisa, Campbell’s Soup Cans, drip painting, and Surrealism.
DIY
A kid-focused creative platform for building games and projects with AI-assisted tools, challenges, and guided making experiences.