With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games.
By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children don’t just learn to code, they code to learn.
ScratchJr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language (http://scratch.mit.edu), used by millions of people (ages 8 and up) around the world. The ScratchJr interface and programming language were redesigned to make them appropriate for younger children’s cognitive, personal, social, and emotional development.
ScratchJr is a collaboration between the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab, the Developmental Technologies research group at Tufts University, and the Playful Invention Company. The ScratchJr project has received generous financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), Scratch Foundation, LEGO Foundation, and British Telecommunications.
If you enjoy using this free app, please consider making a donation to the Scratch Foundation (www.scratchfoundation.org), a nonprofit organization that provides ongoing support for ScratchJr. We appreciate donations of all sizes, large and small.
I really love this game it’s not to hard to use, it has multiple functions and all that is really good but I just have one request, can you please add a function that you can change the characters size right now there is a function that you can turn the character smaller or bigger but it changes size once you’ve started your animation it’s kind of annoying but aside from that it’s a really good app plus there’s no ads in the game which is already a bonus and I almost forgot the game is also actually kind of educational not like most games, most games have no education but this game has one
Good👍 but can you add this please!!!🙏
Kayleighswirl
Hi I really love ScratchJr but can you please add this thing you know like in the thing to get characters and the characters that don’t have faces I was trying to make the rest of the characters body white so could only see the face but it turns out that you can see it’s body still but anyways the thing I wanted is like an opinion to get a photo and put it in the game so all I wanted like in other games
Good but needs updates
Bella1534
Scratch Jr is a pretty good app, but needs a few updates. First of all, Scratch Jr is I bit to easy for some intelligent kids. And these kids only want the app because the characters, objects and backgrounds are cool. So my idea would be to make more complex movements, for example: more sounds, and maybe a listener option. But my main idea is to be able to move different body parts, for example: when I want a character to walk it doesn’t look like it is walking, it just looks like it’s gliding. Maybe you could add levels so little kids could still use, but the older kids could use higher levels. Please consider these ideas, but otherwise it’s a good app for little kids. 🍔🍟🍫
More updates please!
Ollie & Owly
Why I rate this 2 stars is because I just finished my animation and it was gone! All is left is a red dot! I felt a lot of anxiety about it and it only has 42 different colours to choose from! There was not enough characters made and there was no musical instruments! There was no delete gallery and can only do 9.9 seconds for the maximum time! No sound gallery and not enough pages! When it comes to the title, all of the projects has random numbers! Also, the shapes Scratch Jr needs to add is pentagons, hexagons, hectogons and octagons! Plus, I wanted to make a Rubik’s Cube animation but I can’t figure what piece to use to make the cube turn! Also, there is not enough backgrounds!
Bug Fixes
Version 1.5.11
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Information
Seller
Scratch Foundation, Inc.
Size
53.5 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.