Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

Jul 22, 2025 · A Java applet has been written for use with Scratch applications, allowing you to "embed" a Scratch project within a web page. This applet is demonstrated on the main Scratch website, but …

In Scratch, extensions add extra blocks and features that can be used in projects. In Scratch 2.0, the extensions were all hardware-based and Pen was a normal category. Software-based extensions …

This article or section documents an outdated version of Scratch (version 2.0). For this article in the current version (version 3.0), see How to Download the Offline Editor (3.0).

This is the open source version of Scratch 2.0 and the core code for the official version found on http://scratch.mit.edu. This code has been released under the GPL version 2 license.

Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab (http://llk.media.mit.edu). Our group develops new technologies that, in the spirit of the blocks and …

Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.