There are all sorts of sounds you could add to your Scratch project. Give your project that extra oomph by adding sounds.

YEARS: 3–4, 5–6 Looking for a simple project to get you started in Scratch? Add characters, animate them, create and share your own interactive Holiday Card. Acknowledgements ...

That doesn't surprise Karen Brennan, a Scratch project leader at MIT's Media Lab, where Scratch was developed. "Our agenda isn't to create armies of programmers," Brennan says.

Next, you'll take those skills and create a simple animation to understand how Scratch can make simple tasks easier and be incorporated into other projects.

A Rutgers University project aims to make those sorts of automations easy for anyone to add to their household appliances, with a little help the graphical programming language Scratch.