YEARS: 3–4, 5–6 Want to make your own games? Scratch is a programming language, created by MIT, that makes it easy to create interactive art, stories, simulations, and games.

Scratch is not only a programming language, it is also an online community where kids can share their projects with people from all over the world. Last year’s release of Scratch 2.0 brought ...

In an effort to make Scratch more widely available, version 2.0 in 2013 moved to the web. But it was built using interactive web technology of the time: Adobe Flash.

Here are 12 geeky projects you can do yourself, from scratch, over the Labor Day weekend. Top image: Doucette TARDIS, Punk Projects, and Muddy Boots Blog.