A Tour of Tynker
Get familiar with Tynker and write your first program!
1 Activity:
- A Tour of Tynker
Optical Illusion
Get acquainted with Tynker’s Drawing Tool, and make actors spin, in this dizzying optical illusion!
1 Activity:
- Optical Illusion
Animate Your Name
Animate individual letter actors and get familiar with movement, effects, costumes and the other looks blocks.
1 Activity:
- Animate Your Name
Scrapbook
Get crafty and code your own memory with digital photos, as if you were using real photos and construction paper!
1 Activity:
- Scrapbook
Photobooth Funbooth
Use your webcam to take dress-up photos. Dream up any costume you like for yourself, then take a picture!
1 Activity:
- Photobooth Funbooth
Animating Characters
Learn how Tynker handles a special kind of Actor called rigs and learn how to use the animation blocks.
1 Activity:
- Animating Characters
Triple Rainbow
These three projects introduce the Pen Blocks and show you how to creatively use color in your code.
1 Activity:
- Triple Rainbow
Flower Power
Use loops and functions to grow your own garden!
1 Activity:
- Flower Power
Don't Eat Me
Use the pen blocks to draw and erase geometric shapes, like rectangles, ellipses, and triangles.
1 Activity:
- Don't Eat Me
Worms!
Learn how to create a 3D worm effect.
1 Activity:
- Worms!
Neon Motion Bounce
Use the physics blocks to create original, abstract art!
1 Activity:
- Neon Motion Bounce
Vanishing Point
Create perspective in animations and code, just like a Renaissance artist.
1 Activity:
- Vanishing Point
Scrolling Starfield
Code a seamless scrolling parallax background with multiple layers, simulating depth.
1 Activity:
- Scrolling Starfield
Animated Greeting Card
Code your own animated greeting card, then publish it and share it with your family and friends!
1 Activity:
- Animated Greeting Card
Etch-a-Sketch
Recreate the classic drawing toy, using messages and received values to build a user interface.
1 Activity:
- Etch-a-Sketch
My Art Studio
Create a paint editor of your own! Code an interface and a background-switcher.
1 Activity:
- My Art Studio
Viking Poetry Generator
Learn how to use lists and manipulate strings to create your own original poetry!
1 Activity:
- Viking Poetry Generator
Stepping Feet Illusion
Impress your friends with this mind-bending optical illusion!
1 Activity:
- Stepping Feet Illusion
Pulsing Pointer
Make a mesmerizing grid of bouncing Actors that all point towards your mouse.
1 Activity:
- Pulsing Pointer
