Scratch Programming for Beginners (Updated 2025)

Animate your name in scratch as you build your first project, with letters forming and gliding onto the screen, and follow a step-by-step walkthrough of concepts you’ve already covered.

Learn to animate your name by selecting letter sprites from the letters category, randomizing their start positions, then guiding them to the target location with glide, delays, and show/hide effects.

Animate the letters i and s by using ghost effects and size changes, controlled with repeat loops and timing to make them appear and grow and shrink.

Animate your name in Scratch programming for beginners by hiding letters, positioning them off-screen, then reveal and glide them into a single line.

Learn to set up a menu page, explore variables and conditions, broadcast across a Scratch project, and build a number-guessing game with feedback and celebratory animations.

Create your own sprite in Scratch using the paint tool to design costumes, then add text with the text tool, center it, and switch to coding to start your project.

Set a variable to a random number between 1 and 99, rename it to 'answer', and hide it to keep the solution secret while guiding guesses as larger or smaller.

Use repeat until and if-then loops in scratch to run a number guessing game with feedback on whether guesses are larger or smaller and a victory broadcast with sound.

Learn to customize game feedback by selecting a cheering sound in the sound bar, using upload, record, or choose options, and apply it to the congratulations screen.

Build a Microsoft Paint-like drawing app in Scratch programming for beginners, featuring a top toolbar with clear, color, and size controls, backgrounds, and a drawing pen.

Design an edge-to-edge gray workspace, upload and organize paint costumes, add labeled buttons for clear, brush size controls, and change background, and manage layering to keep elements visible.

Add a pencil tool in Scratch, align its tip to the cursor, and program it to follow the mouse and draw when the mouse is pressed.

Create and handle broadcasts to control the clear button and pen size in Scratch. The lecture shows sending and receiving broadcasts to clear the stage and adjust the pen size.

Learn to change sprite colors by storing the last pressed color in a color variable for all sprites, broadcasting a color change, and updating the pencil and all sprites accordingly.

Learn to program a change background function that cycles through multiple backdrops with a button, resize and place backdrops to fit the workspace, and add custom or preset images.

Develop a Scratch racing car game by controlling speed and movement, navigating a checkpoint track, completing three laps, timing the race, and returning to missed checkpoints.

Upload the track backdrop and red car sprite, adjust the fit, and set the car to start at the finish line with coordinates X -60, Y 155.

Explore moving a car in Scratch using a custom move function, a finish flag, and speed controls, with reset positions and a forever loop for a three lap race.

Implement a rotate function in a forever loop to turn the car left or right by 10 degrees when the respective key is pressed, while the game runs.

Implement a conditional to slow the car when off track, checking speed and off track color, and reduce speed by 0.6 without going below one.

Add checkpoints to ensure laps count only after all checkpoints are passed in order, and place colored checkpoint sprites with yellow active and blue idle states.

Add a timer to the racing game by incrementing time every second until finish, display the elapsed time, and ensure it stops when the game ends.

Introduce a laps variable to track completed laps, display lap count alongside the timer, and update checkpoints to reset each new lap until the game finishes on the third lap.

Add a racing car sound that plays forever by uploading the audio file and using play sound until done, and adjust volume to scale with speed for realistic racing.

Upload the bear sprite to a jungle backdrop, centralize it, and program a forever loop to move the bear left or right by changing x when arrow keys are pressed.

Define variables for timer and score on the backdrop and display them. Use a random between one and five to spawn apples or watermelons as clones.

Use a local speed variable to simulate gravity on clones in Scratch, randomize starting positions, and handle edge and bear collisions for scoring apples and penalties from watermelons.

Learn to add sound effects to a Scratch game by uploading backdrop and object sounds, wiring background music, bang sounds for hits, and apple-eating sounds to adjust the score.

Program a lifeguard game using webcam video sensing to push clones up with gestures and earn points for saved ones. Survive by avoiding misses as three clones fall.

Set up sprites and a water background, hide the main sprite to create clones, and initialize lives, score, and game status, then enable webcam video sensing with adjustable transparency.

Spawn and manage clones in Scratch, placing them above the screen at random x positions to fall. Use motion sensing as a barrier and decrease lives when they hit water.

Use clones and a score-based wait formula to control spawning, bounce up to rescue clones, update score, delete clones, and end the game when lives reach zero.

Create an asteroid shooter game where a spaceship fires lasers every half second, moves with arrow keys, and destroys incoming asteroids to score until three lives end the game.

Upload the spaceship, laser, and asteroid sprites and set their initial positions and sizes. Configure variables for game state, score, lives, and ship direction with a stars backdrop and hearts.

Ensure three hearts display at start and reset on restart, then control the spaceship with arrow keys, setting direction to 90 and updating by five degrees while pointing the ship.

Spawn a laser clone every half second in Scratch, oriented to the ship’s direction. Save the direction in a variable to reuse it across costumes and add a laser sound.

Spawn asteroid clones with a repeat until loop from left or right, in varying sizes. Apply a score-based wait formula to decrease spawn delay as the score rises.

Implement a 30 over the meteor size duration for a size-based glide toward the spaceship, and continuously check collisions to update score, reduce lives, end game, broadcast, and delete clones.

Add asteroid rotation by turning asteroids a few degrees forever, and implement an end game display costume that shows when the game ends. Reset to zero and prep replay.

Design a snake game in Scratch that tracks food pickups, borders, and self-collision while using a list to manage game elements and aim for the highest score.

Upload the backdrop and borders, create snake head, body, and food costumes, and use variables and lists to control direction, game end, and snake length for keyboard-based movement.

Produce the snake’s body by stamping costumes and broadcasting show body events. Extend the snake by eating food and erase old segments for seamless movement.

Master list management in Scratch by removing the last snake square through deleting the first list item and updating the on-screen body with broadcasts, ensuring the snake length stays correct.

Increase the hardbody size to 105 to cover borders, detect collisions with borders or body, end the game by broadcasting game ended, and show a 'nice try' message.

Spawn food in a scratch snake game using New X and New Y; place it at position, then pick coordinates while avoiding the snake body to increase length and score.

Finish the Scratch for beginners course with hands-on projects, learn loops, commands, and functions through drag-and-drop blocks, and celebrate your progress by sharing your games with friends.