Creative Coding with Scratch
Animate Your Name
Getting Started
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Select Blue Sky 2 backdrop.
Choose the required Letters from the
sprite library to spell out your name.
Reduce the size of the Letters sprites so
your name fits on the Stage.
Challenge 1
Can you make a Letter sprite spin?
Challenge 2
Can you make a Letter sprite look like it is jumping up and down?
Challenge 3
Can you make a Letter sprite flash by changing its brightness?
Challenge 4
Can you continuously change the colour of a Letter sprite?
I can:
select a backdrop and add sprites;
change the size of sprites;
make a sprite spin;
make a sprite move up and down;
change the brightness of a sprite;
change the colour of a sprite.
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Helpful Hints
Animate Your Name
Use these hints to help you complete the challenges. They will not give you the
complete solution to the algorithm but should help you on your way.
The following code belongs on one of the Letter sprites:
To make a Letter spin: To make a Letter jump up and down:
Top Tip
Depending on the starting position of
your sprite, the values in the change y
by will differ from the example code.
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Helpful Hints Animate Your Name
To make a Letter flash by changing To make a Letter continuously change
its brightness: its colour:
Top Tip
You can change the speed of the
colour changes by altering the number
in the change color effect by block.
Top Tip
You can change the brightness of the
flash by altering the number in the
change brightness effect by block.
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Creative Coding with Scratch
Animate Your Name Answers
Each Creative Coding Challenge is an open-ended task, which can be approached in
many different ways. Pupils should be encouraged to have a go and tackle these tasks
independently. The helpful hints are not intended to provide complete solutions but may
serve as useful cues for supporting less-confident coders.
The following algorithms are just one possible solution to each challenge.
Challenge 1 Challenge 2
The following code belongs on a The following code belongs on a
Letter sprite: Letter sprite:
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Challenge 3 Challenge 4
The following code belongs on a The following code belongs on a
Letter sprite: Letter sprite:
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