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Mood Menders

🌀💖 Mood Menders!

👧🧒 For children who want to make a difference in others' lives by supporting their mental health and wellbeing! 😀

💡 What's the Project?

Create a digital product to support children’s emotional wellbeing and mental health. This could be:

  • A simple web app with useful wellbeing tips or daily positive quotes.
  • An interactive Scratch project that checks how you're feeling and gives advice.
  • A Scratch chatbot which offers help based on how users are feeling.
  • A machine learning (AI!) chatbot which learns from examples of what people might type and ways to help them.
  • A Python chatbot that responds to emotions.
  • A piece of digital art designed to make people feel better.
  • A piece of electronic music which uplifts people's moods.
  • A printable poster made with digital tools.
  • A simple webpage which shares recipes for feel good food.
  • Or a mix of these!
  • A way to help people relax - how about a virtual fish tank

Your project might:

  • Let users pick their mood and get advice.
  • Share ways to be calm and happy.
  • Recommend fun activities to lift someone’s spirits.
  • Provide positive affirmations and quotes.
  • Give ideas for helping others who feel down.

🌱 What Will I Learn?

  • How to build apps using tools like Scratch, Python, or HTML/CSS/JS.
  • Ways to gather and structure helpful information.
  • Creative skills like animation, design, and storytelling.
  • Web design techniques to give your app a specific feeling such as calming

🧰 Helpful Technique Cards

🎨 Make it Yours

  • Get physical - can you base your wellbeing mood mender project on a microbit?
  • Add your own electronic music to help people feel calm or happy.
  • Use digital art to set a positive mood.
  • Give your project a unique mascot - maybe hand drawn or AI generated!
  • Produce a one-stop-animation story based on helping with wellbeing.
  • Make a mood jukebox which plays different music according to the user's mood choice.
  • Add real-world links to help lines or positive videos.
  • Give your chatbot character a personality or story - a caring cat or friendly unicorn for example!
  • Add mini-games inside the app to boost a user’s mood — e.g., a gratitude game, a “breathe with me” Scratch project, or a game where you solve problems to reduce stress.
  • Create a mood tracker which takes real data from a user about how they feel each day and then shows them their mood journey somehow.

🤯 Really Shake it Up!!!

  • Explore what makes people happy - develop a data handling project which looks at this - which countries are the happiest? Are they the richest ones - does money make us happy? If not, what does?
  • Maybe collect your own data about what makes people happy!

🪶 Simplify It!

  • Use Scratch to build a “How are you feeling today?” app with 3–4 emotions.
  • Make a digital poster with Publisher.
  • Record a short iMovie with advice and music instead of coding.

🔥 Extension Challenge!

  • Make a calendar of feel-good ideas using HTML and JS.
  • Add a community wellbeing forum where users can post positive comments to each other and share ideas!
  • Use django to create a simple web app (django is used to develop many real world websites!)

🧺 You'll Need

Tools Notes
🖥️ PCs, Laptops or iPads For Scratch, web apps, or digital art
🌐 Internet For hosting web content or research
🎙️ Microphone Optional, for voice work
🎨 Art tools For any graphic-based projects
🧠 Ideas Based on student experience and kindness!