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🎨🤖⚡️ Creative Coding for ages 7+
🚀 Hands-on kits, workshops & experiences
🏫 At home | in schools | with partners
👇 Free STEAM activities & downloads

10/06/2026

🚀 Come and say hi this June + July!

We’re packing up the Crumbles, cardboard, and robots and heading out on the road.

Whether you’re a parent, home educator, teacher or simply curious about creative technology, we’d love to meet you.

Here’s where you’ll find us:

🤖 12 June - Home Educator Day: Robots! 📍 Eureka! Science + Discovery, Wallasey

🎨 26 June - Playful Computing Conference 📍 University of Westminster, Harrow 🎤 Catch Hayley’s keynote: “I Should Have Been an Engineer”

🚀 30 June - Festival of Play (North Wales) 📍 Grŵp Llandrillo Menai, Rhos-on-Sea

🤖 2 July —-Festival of Play (Liverpool) 📍 North Liverpool Academy

At every event you’ll find hands-on, creative coding experiences where children can build, make, invent and discover that technology isn’t just for “techy” kids.

👇 Let us know:
 Which event are you coming to?

🔗 Event links: • Home Educator Day: https://discover.eureka.org.uk/event/home-educator-day-march-2026/ • Playful Computing Conference: https://www.digitalschoolhouse.org.uk/playful-computing-conference-2026 • Festival of Play (North Wales): https://www.eventbrite.com/o/digital-schoolhouse-14845627010 • Festival of Play (Liverpool): https://www.eventbrite.com/o/digital-schoolhouse-14845627010

01/06/2026

🎨🤖 I built a coding kit for parents who don’t know where to start.

Because let’s be honest…

Most of us weren’t taught coding at school.

And when we decide we want our kids to learn about technology, we’re suddenly faced with apps, subscriptions, jargon and a whole lot of plastic.

So I built something different.

✨ Hands-on projects children actually want to make
✨ Step-by-step instructions that guide you from start to finish
✨ Creative builds using cardboard, craft materials and simple electronics
✨ Coding that comes to life in the real world
✨ No subscriptions
✨ No endless screen time
✨ No pressure to be a tech expert

Just open the box and start creating together.

From cardboard robots to nightlights to carnival games to a toothbrush timer. 🪥 Every project is designed to build confidence through making.

Because technology should feel creative, accessible and fun.

👇 Follow for more crafty coding ideas and inspiration for curious kids aged 7–11.

What would your child build first?

28/05/2026

Turns out your plant has been trying to tell you something. Scientists just figured out how to listen. 🌱

Swipe to find out how - and try the question on slide 5 with your kids.

This week we built our own version. Two nails. A bit of cardboard. Same idea as the scientists - check it out on our grid.

Follow for weekly tech news your 7–11 year old will actually find interesting.

22/05/2026

🤣 What’s your favourite?

Some Friday fun….Millennial marketing vs. Gen Z socials

21/05/2026

Scientists are building robotic bees. And honestly? It’s one of our fav things happening in tech right now. 🐝

Not because robots should replace bees - they absolutely shouldn’t.

But because when bee populations started collapsing, researchers didn’t give up. They got creative.

Scientists estimate 1 in 3 bites of food we eat is thanks to pollinators like bees. Apples. Almonds. Strawberries. Coffee. And right now, over 40% of pollinator species are at risk.

So MIT built tiny flying robots - lighter than a paperclip - that use AI to navigate flowers and pollinate crops. Not to take over from nature. To buy us time while we fix the real problems.

This is what we love about technology when it’s used well. It doesn’t replace the natural world. It helps protect it.

Swipe to see how it works - and why it’s a brilliant thing to explore with your kids this week. 👆

💛 Save this to share with your child - and follow Sniff + Snails for hands-on ideas that make tech feel like play, for kids aged 7–11.

13/05/2026

👀 Watch until the end - this was too cute not to share 🧘‍♀️❤️

We accidentally made the cosiest Minecraft lamp 🟩✨

It slowly fades brighter and dimmer so you can breathe along with it… and it’s weirdly relaxing to watch 😭✨

Made with code, cardboard, and a LOT of excitement in our house.

Definitely one of those projects that started as “this will be fun” and ended with us sitting in the dark staring at it for 10 minutes 😂

Would your kids have this in their room? 🌙

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