Another upvote for bambu lab. They just work. I've started with an A1. Will see how it's going after a year and probably upgrade to the X1.
The new crealty K2 does have a bigger build size, but still seems to be a bit buggy and hit and miss with individual units. If you're in no real hurry and a bigger possible build size is important then maybe keep an eye on reviews/youtube to see how well they start sorting out any issues with those units.
Plenty of free tutorials on getting started with fusion360.
For the kids blender is an additional option as free software for creating 3d characters that can be printed. There are cad type addins for blender but fusion360 is set up better I think for proper cad work.
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