Scratch: Animate Your Name

Instructions

1. Click Create on the Scratch website

2. Add the letters of your first name (or your initials) as sprites

3. Explore the Motion, Looks, and Sounds blocks and create scripts for each letter of your name to do something on an Event of your choice - here are some suggestions of things you could do:

   • Change color

   • Spin

   • Make sounds

   • Add a backdrop and/or decorations

   • Change size

   • Move randomly around the stage

4. Done?

   • Name and Save your current project

   • Challenge: Can you program a way of resetting all sprites back to their initial state?

   • Optional: Share your project and add it to our CS PD Week Studio

Extensions

It can be a good idea to remix your own project (File/Save as a copy) before you try an extension.

4. • Add a sprite to represent you that says your name and tells people what to do to see your animations? Check out this example.

   • Turn your project into an Acrostic Name Poem - Examples: Mrs. Sedgwick Name Poem | Dorothy Vaughan Name Poem

   • Explore Tutorials Available in Scratch

Example Projects

• Vicky's Example

• Jessie's Example

• 2nd grade student examples / 3rd grade student example

• BootUp Animate Your Name Examples

Tips You May Need

• Add sprites to your project

• Edit a sprite: Vector Mode | Bitmap Mode

• Draw a backdrop: Video

• Add sounds: Video | BootUp Video

• Understanding Set vs Change blocks (BootUp Video)

• Copy code from one sprite to another: Copy scripts to other sprites | Use Backpack (copy between projects)

• Scratch Project Editor Basics

• Add a project to a studio
  This is a teacher showing how to share to a specific studio; you would search for AZ CSPD to find our studio or just go to the link posted in the instructions.

Step-by-Step Tutorials

• Scratch Animate a Name: Coding Cards (PDF) / Teacher Guide (PDF) / Online Tutorial

• BootUp Animate Your Name