Scratch
Create games, animations and stories with block coding, free from MIT.
What is Scratch?
Scratch is a free block-based coding platform from MIT. Snap blocks together to create interactive stories, games and animations, and share them with a global community. It's available in many languages.
Think of it as coding with building blocks.
What you can do with it
- Block coding: easy for beginners
- Games and animations
- Huge community: remix projects
- Many languages: including Hindi
Get started in 3 steps
- Go to scratch.mit.edu
- Click Create to start
- Follow a tutorial and share your project
Try this today
- Make a sprite move and talk
- Create a simple maze game
- Remix a community project
Good to know
- Free
- ScratchJr: for younger children
- Safe community: moderated
Quick challenge
Make a 30-second animation that tells a joke!
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