Beyond the classics: exploring Code Club projects in 2025

At the end of 2024, we crunched the numbers and found that classic Code Club projects like ‘Space talk’, ‘Boat race’, and ‘Ghostbusters’ remain popular choices across the world. In 2025, dive into some of our other inspiring projects to help your creators build on their skills!

Exploring new projects and adding your own creative spin can boost learning, spark excitement, and unlock fresh inspiration for you and your creators.

Our projects site offers over 200 coding projects that provide support for creators to learn at their own pace and grow their confidence through hands-on learning. This empowers them to successfully bring their ideas to life through code. Code Club mentor Bob shares how he has used the projects in his club:

“The Code Club projects help motivate creators through the structure. I spend a lot of time at the beginning of a new year with a fresh group of coders showing them the projects and how they work through them, and how they go from one page to the next and find all the hints and tips in the projects.”

– Bob, Code Club mentor

Check out our suggestions and try a new project in your club this year.

Moving on from ‘Space talk’

After Space talk, launch a new space-themed activity with Alien language! Creators will train a machine learning model to recognise alien words and use it to control an alien in Scratch. Get ready for a fun, possibly noisy, introduction to machine learning.

You can expand the project by encouraging your creators to change the sprites and backdrops.

From boat racing to scoring goals

Boat race is a Code Club classic, but why not take those coding skills to the next level with a new game? Beat the goalie guides coders to create a two-player game where the aim is to score as many goals as possible in 30 seconds.

Creators can customise the sport, target, and players to make the game their own.

‘Ghostbusters’ is just the beginning

If you love Ghostbusters, try a new challenge with Clone wars. Creators can build on their existing Scratch skills and discover exciting new concepts by creating a game to save the Earth from space monsters — or any other threat that coders can dream up.

“The Code Club projects start the ball rolling. I often start with the ‘Ghostbusters’ project and very rarely do children make a ghost floating around a manor. They’re picking sprites that relate to things that they’re interested in. Whether it’s about footballs, food, or anything else is what sparks their creativity and inspires them to experiment.”

– Rachel, Code Club mentor, Stevenage, UK

Creators can swap out the extraterrestrial invaders for giant robots, mischievous gremlins, or even a swarm of angry bees. The possibilities are endless!

Explore the Code Club projects, where creators are guided through new coding and design skills to make things that matter to them.