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🎉 Bring Your Child to Work Day 2026

Code a Monster!

Pick parts, write code, bring your monster to life — then try changing the code yourself!

🧬 Build My Monster 🧩 Try the Puzzles
🧬 Build Your Monster!
Three ways to build — pick your style!
Slime
Lava
Shadow
Ice
Blood
Gold
Toxic
Candy
🎮 Slime Blob
⚡ googly eyes + big grin
// your monster's code
color = "#22cc66"
eyes = "googly"
mouth = "grin"
top = "none"
🧩 Puzzle Time!
Put the steps in the right order — then hit CHECK to see if you got it!

🌟 Puzzle 1 — Wake Up Your Monster

These 4 steps are in the WRONG order! Drag them into the correct order to get your monster ready to battle. What should happen first?

💪
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Train your power
⏰
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Wake up!
📣
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ROAR at the world
🍕
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Eat breakfast

⭐ Puzzle 2 — Find the Bug!

Oh no — one step is in the wrong place and the monster is broken! Find the bug and drag it to the right position.

⏰
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Wake up
💪
?
Train
🍕
?
Eat breakfast
📣
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ROAR!

🏆 Puzzle 3 — Hardest Challenge!

This monster wants to go to SLEEP at the end of the day. Arrange all 5 steps in the right order!

🛁
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Take a bath
🎮
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Play games
🏠
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Come home from school
😴
?
Go to sleep
🍽️
?
Eat dinner
💻 Junior Coder Zone
Ages 9–11 — edit the REAL code and see what happens! Change emojis, numbers, anything. You can't break it! 😄
📝 monster.js — edit me!
💡 Try changing roarCount to 5 and hit Run — what happens?
💡 Change "RAAAAAWR!!" to your own battle cry!
💡 Change "👀" to any emoji — try "🌈" or "💀"
💡 Programmers call these variables — boxes that store information
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Hit ▶ Run Code to see your monster!
🚀 Keep Coding!
Free websites where you can keep learning — all of these work on a phone or tablet
Ages 7–11
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Scratch
MIT-made. Drag blocks to build your own games and animations. The most popular kids coding site in the world.
scratch.mit.edu
Ages 5–11
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Code.org
Minecraft, Star Wars, and Frozen themes. Drag-and-drop coding puzzles. Perfect for beginners — no reading needed for young kids.
code.org
Ages 6–9
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Blockly Games
Fun puzzle games that teach loops and logic. Works in any browser — no account needed. Jump straight in!
blockly.games
Ages 9–11
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Khan Academy
Learn real JavaScript by drawing shapes, making animations, and building games. The best step up from blocks to real code.
khanacademy.org/computing
Ages 8–11
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Tynker
Guided coding courses with games and projects. Has a free tier and a great mobile app.
tynker.com
Ages 9–11 · iPad
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Swift Playgrounds
Apple's free iPad app. Write real code to solve puzzles. Feels like a game — teaches real programming used in iPhone apps.
Apple App Store (free)