Hacking & making for kids

Brainstoming collectin on getting the little ones into making/hacking, at home, events or your local hack-/makespace.

Mostly inspired by being to VoW summercamp 2023 as well as the thoughts of my own kids. In November, this triggered a Mastodon post with some input

Books

• Nick Offerman - Little Woodchucks
• Helen Leigh - The Crafty Kids Guide to DIY Electronics

Coloring books

It would be great if there were any coloring books focussed on making/hacking, ideally even under some sort of open source / CC license.

Existing work:

• Malware (CC BY-NC)

Collections yet to look through

• https://www.illustratorenfuerfluechtlinge.de/
• Monkeypen free coloring books

Ideas:

• Famous Open Source HW projects
• Common stickers
  • Sticker Archive

Events / spaces

• C3Kidspace
  • Kidspac 38C3 assembly
  • 37C3
  • 33C3
• KidsLab
  • KidsLab-Workshops während der rC3 – in Zusammenarbeit mit kidspace

Workshop ideas

• Kids toy repair cafe
• Take-apart-athon