Designing Sprites

Scratch is a visual programming language that lets you create all kinds of programs. Each program is made up of sprites and scripts. Sprites are the characters and objects on the Scratch stage, such as animals and trees. Scripts are connected coloured blocks of code that you put together like puzzle pieces. You use the scripts to make your sprites do things, like run and dance.

This section shows you how to design sprites with Scratch. You will learn about:

• Creating sprites
• Renaming sprites
• Editing sprites
• Changing the appearance of sprites

The code blocks that you will be using are summarized in Table 1.

Table 1: Code Blocks Used in Designing Sprites

Code Block	Name	Type
	when green flag clicked	Events
	wait 1 secs	Control
	switch costume to costume2	Looks