Backgrounds and Sprites can be chosen from the files in Scratch but you can also upload an image file from your PC if you are looking for something more specific!
This screencast video shows how to create a new project, choose a football themed background and choose football themed sprites.
It also shows how to resize the sprites and move them to a preferred position.
As we were using the Rugby World Cup for our inspiration we immediately hit an obstacle as there are no rugby themed backgrounds or sprites in the Scratch file libraries.
We needed to search online for our own images and upload them. The easiest way was to save the images onto our Desktops.
Watch the video to see how we did this!