Teen Web Guide: Make, Tinker, Hack

Designing a game

from Kids Coding Club

How-to videos and projects for MaKey MaKey

Learning to code

3D modeling

Stop motion animation videos

3D printing. Download & print, or create.

Make a functioning webpage that you could send or share. Great for practicing HTML and CSS and seeing the results appear instantly.

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.

FreeCAD is a parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters. FreeCAD is open-source and highly customizable, scriptable and extensible.

Start by drawing lines and shapes. Push and pull surfaces to turn them into 3D forms. Stretch, copy, rotate and paint to make anything you like. Great for beginners.

3D printing. Download & print, or create.

Tinkercad is used by designers, hobbyists, teachers, and kids, to make toys, prototypes, home decor, Minecraft models, jewelry – the list is truly endless!

Anim8or is a 3D modeling and character animation program

Create moving images by drag and drop and hitting the record button

Quickly test ideas – or train your skills. Work rough – then clean up.

CreaToon is a simple program that allows you to create 2D cut-out animations and add various special effects to it.

Animation app for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Choose your background, characters and one of four plots, type in your dialog, choose music

Create, edit and play your own animation clips, and send them as e-cards

GoAnimate enables people to produce a wide range of custom videos – from scratch – in the cloud – using drag and drop tools.

Make your own explainer video, animation or YouTube intro in less than 15 minutes!

An easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.

Create speaking avatars

A create your own adventure animation site that challenges kids to use the animation tools to finish the stories

Make a functioning webpage that you could send or share. Great for practicing HTML and CSS and seeing the results appear instantly.

Free whiteboard animation software

Create and edit video using many of the same tools the pros use with this streamlined version of Media Composer—available for free.

Video Converter, Video Editor, Video Compression & Webcam Recording

Create hour-long mixes out of your favorites in minutes!

Easy online video editor

Make outstanding social videos in minutes with the power of Magisto’s smart video editor.

Easy to use video editor

Upload, share, store, and edit your videos.

Create a cartoon video

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.

TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.

The video editor is intended for editing video files and creating videos of any complexity involving various visual and audio effects.

Create and edit videos, and collaborate with others. Great for a group project!

Lots of projects for wood crafts

Arts & crafts

Lots of ideas to make anything and everything

DIY projects and ideas