This activity is built for children aged 9 to 13 who are ready to move beyond beginner coding and start making the real thing.

Instead of following a fixed exercise, children work on proper digital projects. They design and build websites, create mobile app-style projects, and think about layouts other people can navigate. They add interactive features, test how it all behaves, and get their work to the point where it can be published andshared.

It is the difference between learning to code and using code to make something.

App developmentfor kids is really an exercise in thinking like a designer as much as a coder.

Children learn how digital products get made: how an idea is planned, designed, built and then tested until it works properly. They map out screens, place buttons, decide what happens when someone taps them, and follow a simple user journey from start to finish. Where they form part of the session, tools like App Lab and Thunkable let children put app projects together and see them run, so the ideas stay concrete rather than theoretical.

Every session ends with something built, so the sills come from doing rather than being told.

Children learn website design and page layout, and how to add app-style interactive features that respond to a user. They get to grips with the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and meet UI and UX basics: the practical business of making a site or app that people can find their way around.

Along the way they practise design thinking and problem-solving, and they test, improve and publish their work. The result is real confidence in creating digital projects they are happy to share.

We pick tools for what they let children build, not for the names on the screen.

HTML and CSS are where most children start,using them to build web pages and then style them so they look the way theyimagined. JavaScript comes in where appropriate, adding the interactivity thatmakes a page respond to whoever is using it. For app projects, App Lab giveschildren a straightforward way to build screens and interactions, and Thunkablelets them put together mobile app-style experiences they can try out forthemselves.

Which tools your child uses depends on their age, the session type andtheir ability level, so the toolkit grows with them.

This activity is designed for children aged 9 to 13, and suits those who enjoy coding, technology, design, apps, websites, problem-solving or building digital things.

Children do not need to be expert coders to join. A bit of curiosity about how websites and apps work goes a long way, and everything is guided step by step. This is the more structured end of what we do, so it tends to suit older children who are ready to see a bigger project through from first idea to finished thing.

Children learn by building the project, not bywatching a demonstration of it.

Sessions are practical and project-based. Children are guided through planning an idea, designing how it should look, coding it, testing what happens and improving it until it behaves.

There is an instructor on hand for the moments when something stubbornly refuses to work, which is most sessions and entirely the point. You will find these classes across several formats: local classes, school clubs, holiday workshops and online classes

The clearest way to picture this activity is to look at what your child will actually make.

Children build simple websites, design mobile app screens, and create interactive buttons, menus and features that do something when you use them. They explore user-friendly layouts, and use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to put their projects together. They test and improve as they go, and where it fits the session, publish their work so they can share it with friends and family.

These skills also connect outwards, feeding into coding & programming, game design, digital creativity and robotics & engineering.