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.
This app is great for kids even older than 7 because some kids know absolutely nothing about coding (like me) but when I first tried this app my mind EXPLODED and coding becadme so fun to use. This app has some cool features and things but one thing they should improve is to make objects bigger and smaller and to upload images (for the background or objects) they should also maybe add some actions that characters could do but if it’s too complicated for younger kids then it’s fine as it is. I really recommend this app for coding beginners - it’s AMAZIIIIIIING! I got stuck to my screen for hours after downloading it! :) bye-
Perfect to restrict what you can make.
Aidan the Reviewer
Scratch JR is a program that constricts what you can do. In this software, you can make games with constructive ideas, this can make games that are unique as ones from the SCRATCH program. Try it out, not just intended for children (5-7) can be fun for older programmers wanting a challenge of restricted software that doesn’t require external ideas to be able to propose their ideas. Also the art creator program packaged into the software is quite extensive allowing for unique vector artwork creations unlike many other applications.
Things you could add
Clancywancy13245
Scratch jr is a great app for making puzzles,mazes and even a kinda hard game but you could add an infinite amount of levels that the user can make to make a series of animations or long games, or add a 3D feature those are the ideas I have that you should definitely add to make the experience better for young kids and better for schools to use
I do it a my infants school
millyisniceeeee
Ok so I’m not young but well I’m 10 so I’m in year 6 now and this is for my little sister melody and she LOVES IT she plays this for like 1 hour yesterday and she just got off it and she said to me melody: it’s not working ) I said: well try this) melody: yay thank youThat’s what she said and don’t worry she’s still loves the game and I play it sometimes so also and that’s it hope you download it!
Bug Fixes
Version 1.5.11
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Information
Provider
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.
