Audience
Attendees
Number of facilitators
Level
Preparation
15 minutes
Activity
30 minutes
Description
This tutorial explains how to make an animation of a snowy countryside scene in Scratch.
Objectives
Appearance
Random numbers
Clones
Prerequisites for the audience
Basic knowledge of Scratch
Equipment
Computer
Content used
https://scratch.mit.edu/
Background preparation
- Go to Scratch and click ‘Start Creating‘, then in the bottom right corner of the next screen, click the ‘Backdrop‘ tab.
- Choose a pre-rendered backdrop suitable for a winter scene, like the one suggested below, or create your own.
Create a character
- Click ‘create Sprite’
- Choose the snowflake and place it towards the top of the screen.
- Delete the cat (‘Sprite1’)
Making snowfall
Give the snowflake a size suitable for the countryside (but random, so they’re not all identical!).
The flake is light and falls neither quickly nor straight. At the bottom of the screen it disappears.
Multiply the flakes
- Test the animation
- If the animation of the flake works, we can now clone it!
- Replace ‘when the green flag is clicked’ with ‘when I start with a clone’.
- Then change the sequence as following:
- Finally, add the module to generate randomly at the top of the screen.
