FWIW, my roughly eight-year-old nephew is an avid Scratch enthusiast. A couple of other things that might be worth exploring are the Android App Inventor (a Sc

FWIW, my roughly eight-year-old nephew is an avid Scratch enthusiast. A couple of other things that might be worth exploring are the Android App Inventor (a Scratch-like environment for programming Android phones), and Hackety Hack (a Ruby-based environment for programming very simple webapps).