Your kid talks.
A real game appears.
Create A Loop teaches kids ages 4–12 to build real, playable games and apps by directing an AI copilot named Pixel. No coding experience. No typing marathons. No downloads — it runs in a browser on a Chromebook, laptop, or iPad.
No signup, no credit card — the free class opens and runs right now.
Ages 8–18 and want a real teacher? Live 1-on-1 classes, $65 a session.
1,000+
Students taught
50
Self-paced classes
116
Portfolios at Display Day
15
Live 1-on-1 courses
Four self-paced courses. One path from first play to full portfolio.
Self-paced classes, from ten-minute play sessions to half-hour builds. Kids start wherever they fit and move up when they're ready.
Pixel's Play Lab
8 classes · ~10 minutes · zero reading — all play
The very beginning. Pure play for little ones: pop bubbles, sort colors, find patterns — and say a game idea out loud to watch Pixel build it, live.
- Play With Pixel — games that listen and cheer
- Shape Party, Color Magic, Counting Carnival
- Invent-a-game — kids speak, Pixel builds it
- The Big Show — a finale full of their own inventions
Pixel's Puzzle Box
14 classes · ~20 minutes · everything read aloud
The very first step. Pixel's treasure chest is full of tiny machines that don't work yet — kids fix them by putting picture steps in order. No reading required, no typing, ever.
- Meet Pixel — what do robots do best?
- The Pet Feeder — their first working machine
- The Great Fruit Vote — a real vote, a real chart
- Puzzle Box Showcase — a voice-tour portfolio
Pixel's Game Lab
14 classes · voice-first · no typing required
The starting point. Kids describe a game out loud — "a cat that catches falling tacos" — and watch Pixel build it, then test it, break it, and make it better.
- Your First Game — describe it out loud, watch it appear
- Sound Machine, Quiz Master, Catch & Dodge
- Level Up — levels, power-ups, and replayability
- Demo Day — a shareable portfolio of everything they built
AI Arcade
14 classes · builds real apps, not just games
The step up. Kids direct an AI copilot to build the kinds of things they actually use — a quiz app, a music studio, a chat room, a leaderboard — and learn why each one works.
- Meet Your AI Copilot — prompting as a real skill
- Pong Party, Snake Remix, Platformer Playground
- Beat Box Studio, Mood Board Maker, Chat Room
- Grand Showcase — presenting a finished body of work
Want a real teacher, one-on-one?
Live, private virtual classes with a Create A Loop computer science teacher, ages 8–18. Pick a course, or tell us what your student wants to learn and we'll build the class around it.
Sherea Dunlap
Founder of Create A Loop; 15+ years teaching middle- and high-school CS in Python, JavaScript, Swift, and AI.
Katie Wehner
11 years teaching math, CS, and coding to middle schoolers; Missouri-certified, University of Missouri–St. Louis grad.
Tap a course to pre-select it below, or read the full course descriptions.
Choose a 60-minute slot. You'll get a confirmation and Google Meet link by email, and we'll follow up with the $65 invoice before class.
A free 15-minute call with a Create A Loop teacher. Ask anything — which course fits, what a session looks like, whether your student is ready.
Prefer email? Write to shereadunlap@createaloop.org.
90 seconds in, they're building
Every class follows the same rhythm, so kids always know what's next — and parents don't have to sit beside them.
Pixel teaches
A friendly robot instructor walks through one real idea — what makes a game fair, why instructions have to be specific — out loud, with slides.
Your kid describes
They say what they want to build in their own words. The AI writes the code. The thinking, the choices, and the wild ideas stay theirs.
They test and fix
It's never right the first time. Kids play it, spot what's boring or broken, and revise — the create-test-revise loop, over and over.
It goes in the gallery
Every build is saved to their gallery and their portfolio page — a real link they can send to grandma.
Tested with hundreds of kids before it was ever sold
This curriculum ran in live classrooms, summer camps, and after-school programs — the version you get is the one that survived actual 9-year-olds.
No student accounts
Kids join with a first name and a class code. No email, no password, no personal information collected from children.
Safety built into the AI
The AI copilot runs through our own filtered proxy with kid-safe rules — it builds games and nothing else.
Works on the device you have
Chromebook, laptop, or iPad in a browser. Nothing to install, nothing to update.
Standards-aligned
Every class is tagged to the 2026 CSTA K–12 Computer Science Standards — real CS, not screen time.
Self-paced, teacher-shaped
Each class has a warm-up, direct instruction, a build, and an exit ticket. Kids can pause and pick back up any time.
A portfolio at the end
Courses end with Demo Day: a shareable page of everything your child made, presented in their own words.
"I didn't think computer science was for me — now I've built my own game."— Create A Loop student
Pick a course. Yours to keep.
Your child's class code and start link arrive by email within 24 hours.
Pixel's Play Lab
- All 8 classes, pure play
- Zero reading required
- Kids invent real games by talking
- ~10 minutes per class
Pixel's Puzzle Box
- All 14 classes, self-paced
- Everything read aloud — no reading needed
- Three keeper builds they make themselves
- Puzzle Box voice-tour portfolio
Pixel's Game Lab
- All 14 classes, self-paced
- Personal game gallery
- Portfolio page at Demo Day
- Parent progress updates
AI Arcade
- All 14 classes, teacher-led
- Builds apps, games, and tools
- Grand Showcase portfolio
- Follows Pixel's Game Lab
Private virtual class
- A real teacher, one student
- 15 courses or a bespoke class
- Python, JS, Roblox, Unity, AI, CS A…
- Invoiced after booking, no packages
Sponsored classrooms
- Full platform, no cost, no trial clock
- Teacher dashboard and class codes
- Standards alignment reports
- Funded by family enrollments
Family subscription — all four courses plus everything we release next — coming this fall at $19/month or $149/year.
Every enrollment sponsors a kid who can't pay
Create A Loop is a nonprofit. We built this curriculum for under-resourced public school classrooms, and that's still the point — family enrollments fund free access for Title I schools, where the same platform, the same courses, and the same teacher dashboard cost nothing.
See it before you buy anything
Open Class 1 of Pixel's Game Lab right now. It's the real class — about 90 seconds in, your kid is talking to Pixel and watching their idea show up on screen. The free class runs about 25 minutes.