Scratch is the closest thing that comes to mind. Minecraft used to be bundled with the raspi distro. In my opinion, anything more hands on is a bit complex for

Scratch is the closest thing that comes to mind. Minecraft used to be bundled with the raspi distro. In my opinion, anything more hands on is a bit complex for kids. Maybe show them how to do a few silly things on the bash shell? espeak is a fun text to speech cli application it should be in your distros repo, it's sort of like the Microsoft Sam voice app that came with early Windows. Text editors, games, all fun for kids exploring. I'd eventually show them how to add software and update it. Then they'll discover fun things naturally. Maybe not necessarily programming.