Beginner
AI Projects for Kids
Nine hands-on projects for ages 8-12 — no coding experience needed. Build image classifiers, sound detectors, body-controlled games, chatbots, and more using free browser tools that work right now.
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Teach a Computer to See
Build your first AI in 10 minutes — no coding needed. Use Google Teachable Machine to train a model that recognizes images from your webcam.
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02
AI DJ: Make Sounds Do Things
Clap to score. Snap to change colors. Whistle to trigger an animation. Train an AI to hear your sounds and react to them using Teachable Machine.
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03
Dance Controller: Your Body Is the Joystick
Train an AI to recognize your poses and use your body movements to control a Scratch game. No controller needed — just you and your webcam.
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04
Build a Smart Trash Sorter
Train an AI to sort waste into three categories — and then ask the most important question in AI: what happens when your training data is not good enough?
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05
Make Your Own Chatbot Friend
Build a chatbot with its own personality using Machine Learning for Kids and Scratch. You train it. You write its responses. It is entirely your creation.
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06
AI Art Lab: Draw With Words
Learn how text-to-image AI turns words into pictures — and master the skill of writing prompts that get amazing results.
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07
Build a Quiz Bot That Teaches Back
Train an AI to recognize quiz questions about your favorite topic — then build a Scratch game where the AI is the teacher.
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08
Dream Project: Solve a Problem with AI
Use everything you have learned to build something new — an AI project of your own design that solves a real problem you care about.
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09
AI Showcase: Show the World What You Made
Learn how to present your AI projects, understand your own creation honestly, and think about what kind of AI builder you want to be.
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