I'm going to try going through this workshop with my kids. One of the challenges of teaching my kids to program is finding interesting projects that are within their scope of interest. I've tried MindStorms, Ardrino, and various online tutorials but so far nothing has interested them for very long. Maybe making games will interest them.
If they're not interested, just keep them in the loop. Show them some of the cool stuff people build every once in a while or just tell them they can automate their math homework with a simple console app. I'm pretty sure the prospects not having to do my homework by hand would've made me sit down and code instead.
