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Makey Makey turns everyday objects into keyboard keys. Clip it to a banana and you have a piano; clip it to a pencil drawing and you have a game controller. Nine self-paced lessons in the Sammat Online Academy take a child from their first circuit to coding their own games. What's included: 1 x Makey Makey pack — universal touch keyboard, copper tape, spare alligator clips, small LEDs and a coin cell battery 9 self-paced lessons in the Sammat Online Academy, with written guides and video walkthroughs The nine lessons: Craft a simple circuit and light your first LED Hands on a Makey Makey — build a human circuit What is conductive? Build a testing board and find out Draw a playable instrument Code your key presses in Scratch Craft and code an interactive story Two-player games in MakeCode Arcade Draw and code a poem generator Three ways to program the click input You will need a computer with internet access to load the Scratch editor. Conductive odds and ends from around the house — foil, paper clips, fruit — make the projects better. Work through the lessons at your own pace, with no timetable and no expiry.

Five self-paced lessons that take a child from opening Scratch for the first time to building five complete games. Scratch is free, runs in a browser, and is designed for ages 8 to 16 — so this course needs nothing but a computer and an internet connection. What's included: 5 self-paced lessons in the Sammat Online Academy, with written guides and video walkthroughs No hardware — this is a course, not a kit What your child builds: A chase game A maze game A pong game A side-scrolling game A platformer What they practise: Breaking a problem into steps a computer can follow Loops, conditions and variables, without writing a line of syntax Testing and fixing a game that doesn't behave as expected Designing something of their own once the five games are done You will need a computer with internet access to load the Scratch editor. Work through the lessons at your own pace — there is no timetable and no expiry on a lesson you have not finished.