Excerpt from Scratch User Manual

email the author icon By Theresa (Terri) Webster

Creating sprites

Sprites are the actors on the Scratch stage. Sprites can be characters like people and animals, or objects like cars and trees. Scratch comes with a selection of suggested sprites called the Sprite Library.

You can have several sprites on stage together, each with their own scripts. When you create a new Scratch project, the cat sprite is already on the stage. You can add a sprite to the stage by creating a sprite.

To create a sprite

  1. Click Create to create a new Scratch project.
    2. cropped image of menu area of Scratch user interface

    The Scratch interface opens a new project with one cat sprite in it.

  2. From the New sprite toolbar, click Choose sprite from library.
    3. New sprite toolbar image

    The Sprite Library dialog appears.

  3. Select a sprite from the library and click OK.
    4. cropped image of Sprite Library

    Your selected sprite appears on the stage.

    new horse sprite on the stage image
  4. Click File > Save Now to save your project.

    5. Your project is saved.

Now that you know how to create a sprite, you probably want to name it. See Renaming sprites to learn how to name your sprite.