There is only one kid-friendly programming tool that connects with drones: https://tickleapp.com/devices/ https://tickleapp.com/devices/ and it only appears to

There is only one kid-friendly programming tool that connects with drones: https://tickleapp.com/devices/ https://tickleapp.com/devices/ and it only appears to work with Parrot drones, the cheapest of which is $99. In case you don't have an ipad, there are other visual coding tools that work with robots, but not drones, like Scratch. Someone did make a hack to connect Scratch to the Parrot AR Drone, which is more like $300: https://github.com/campk12/ScratchForARDrone https://github.com/campk12/ScratchForARDrone