Games & interactives
Curated games & interactives resources within maker & diy for curious kids and their grown-ups.
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MicroBlocks
A free, live block-programming environment for making interactive projects with microcontrollers, sensors, lights, and motors.
Science Museum Oklahoma
A large hands-on science museum with interactive exhibits, science shows, a planetarium, creative challenges, and family learning experiences.
Kodu Game Lab
A visual game-making environment for children to build 3D worlds, stories, and games with simple programming tiles.
FIRST LEGO League
A guided robotics and STEM program where children build, code, collaborate, and solve real-world challenges.
Science Oxford Centre
A hands-on science centre with an Exploration Zone, woodland, ponds, family days, STEM clubs, and science activities for children.
NASA For Students Grades 5–8
NASA’s middle-grade collection organizes current challenges, space and Earth science stories, games, builds, videos, interactive experiences, and stargazing activities for grades 5–8.
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.
Kohl Children's Museum Home Zone
Stories, experiments, STEAM activities, and playful learning videos from Kohl Children's Museum for families at home.
Putnam Museum Science in Action
Interactive science exhibits and engineering challenges exploring motion, energy, magnetism, circuits, gears, and more.
Catalyst Science Discovery Centre
Interactive science and technology exhibits, workshops, shows, and galleries for children, families, and school groups.
Oslo Science Centre
Interactive science and technology exhibits, creative workshops, and family learning at Norway's Museum of Science and Technology.
The Garden at the Science Museum
The Science Museum’s Garden is a free interactive gallery for young children, with play-based construction, water, light, and sound activities that encourage observing, predicting, testing, and drawing conclusions.
Lawrence Hall of Science Play
The University of California, Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science Play hub brings together interactive apps, hands-on activities, science videos, and astronomy experiences for learners and families.
Gamefroot
A browser-based game-making platform with visual coding, tutorials, interactive stories, animations, and game-design learning.
Miami Children's Museum At Home
Step-by-step videos and activity guides from a children's museum to spark playful learning, making, and discovery at home.
We The Curious
A science experience with interactive exhibits, workshops, planetarium shows, and family discovery in Bristol.
National Gallery of Art: Fun and Games
The National Gallery of Art’s free family-friendly collection of digital painting, art puzzles, printable coloring pages, artist facts, and interactive art exploration.
Children’s Museum Houston 3D Virtual Field Trips
A museum collection of all-time-access 3D virtual field trips with videos and hands-on activities about water, physical science, invention, city life, matter, and math missions for ages 5 and up.
Vienna Museum of Science and Technology Kids & Family
The Vienna Museum of Science and Technology’s Kids & Family guide brings together child-focused exhibitions, playful technology experiences, birthday programs, and a free English children’s tour in the TMW ToGo app.
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.
Learn 2 Draw
A free, ad-free interactive drawing tutor for toddlers and children with step-by-step animated lessons, read-aloud support, printable pages, and English, French, and Greek options.
Smithsonian STEM²D Activities
The Smithsonian Science Education Center’s STEM²D collection provides interactive, standards-aligned science, technology, engineering, math, manufacturing, and design activities for ages 5–18.
UArizona Girls Who Code Club
The University of Arizona’s Girls Who Code club offers free Saturday coding classes for grades 6–12, including Python, Arduino, robotics, AI, website development, and game projects.
Wonderlab+
The Science Museum Group’s free online family science hub with videos, make-and-do activities, games, quizzes, space, and Earth content.
NASA Camp Landsat
A NASA collection of videos, interactives, games, and printable activities showing how Landsat satellite data help people understand and protect Earth.
True Robotics Playground
True Robotics Playground is free drag-and-drop coding software that grows from picture blocks to loops, conditionals, sensors, and Python across a family of robots.
TheDadLab
Family science experiments, art, and interactive activities that children can try at home with an adult.
KidsCanCode
Python, game-development, and creative coding lessons for children and teens, with beginner pathways and classroom programs.
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.
Sciencenter Exhibits
A science museum in Ithaca with more than 250 interactive exhibits covering weather, space, engineering, animals, oceans, physics, and hands-on early learning.
TinkerPy
TinkerPy is a kid-focused coding and robotics platform with block and Python coding, browser simulators, app building, games, projects, and courses for young makers.
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.
CoKids Screen-Free Coding Kit & App
A bilingual screen-free coding kit using board and card play, with an offline companion app for computational thinking at home or school.
TryEngineering
Engineering lesson plans, activities, games, and career stories from IEEE for young learners.
ExplorationWorks
A hands-on science center in Helena with interactive exhibits, early-childhood programming, family events, and science learning for children and families.
Niantic Children’s Museum
An interactive children’s museum with imagination, discovery, outdoor play, science, arts, and world-culture exhibits for children ages 9 months to 9 years.
Wonder Workshop Coding Apps
Wonder Workshop’s official app collection supports coding with Dash and Cue robots through block-based puzzles, traceable paths, JavaScript and Python transitions, lesson plans, and creative projects.
MathHappens Open Play Kits
MathHappens open play kits give families, educators, and community programs hands-on materials and prompts for playful mathematical exploration.
Minnesota Children’s Museum Experiences
Minnesota Children’s Museum presents three floors of interactive experiences and exhibits designed for children and families, including toddler-friendly, sensory, science, art, and maker-style play.
Queensland Sciencentre
Queensland Sciencentre is an interactive science museum experience with hands-on exhibits and family-friendly science exploration.
Science Kids
Fun science facts, experiments, projects, games, videos, and quizzes for elementary and middle-grade learners.
Boston Children’s Museum at Home
A museum-wide activity hub with science, art, engineering, storytelling, music, play-and-learning activities, and online games for families at home.
Airbotix
An AI and creative-coding learning platform for children ages 5–17, with free browser demos, coding projects, classes, and parent controls.
Madderverse
A browser collection of creative games and tools for children, including pottery, coloring, beat-making, and other playful maker experiences. The landing page is usable without signup.
Applaa AI Academy
Applaa’s desktop AI Academy offers interactive coding lessons, challenges, quizzes, and tracks covering Python, JavaScript, web development, databases, games, AI, and robotics.
Kubrio Learn
Short free courses for ages 6–13 that turn drawing, animation, comics, games, robots, and coding into paper-first making projects.
Kids Coding School
Kids Coding School offers encouraging, project-based coding classes in Auckland for children who learn at their own pace with coaches and supplied equipment.
CoderBunnyz
A screen-free coding board-game platform where children practise sequencing, loops, debugging, and problem-solving through guided play.
Kide Science
Kide Science is an inquiry-based early-years science program with playful experiments, lesson resources, and educator support for young children.
Tynker
Project-based coding courses and creative activities covering games, animation, robotics, and web creation.
DIY
A kid-focused creative platform for building games and projects with AI-assisted tools, challenges, and guided making experiences.