You can make your sprites move forward & backward or up & down, you can make the cat sprite follow the mouse pointer or have the pencil sprite draw some amazing artwork. With Motion blocks, you can bring life to your sprites. These blocks are not available for your stage’s backdrop(s) because a backdrop can’t move. Motion blocks are used to control your sprite’s movements. As you work your way through this tutorial, you will gain the experience needed to confidently create scripts that control and move your sprites, helping you get one step closer to coding your own games, animation, and more. This tutorial will introduce you to the medium blue Motion blocks, the gold Control blocks, and the light blue Sensing blocks. Our Runners Take Your Mark tutorial is all about controlling your sprites, and how you can move them around. The Scratch blocks are divided into categories based on their functionality, and each category has its own unique color code.

The Scratch 3.0 release comes with ten categories/subcategories of Scratch blocks plus a growing list of Scratch Extensions which you can add to your projects as needed. Our camp badge tutorials are designed to progress in difficulty level, so many beginners find it easier to enjoy our Scratch Coding Camp tutorials in the order shown. Our Animal Antics badge will help you understand how to start your scripts and how to change the appearance of your sprites. Our Introduction to Scratch is full of useful information to help you familiarize yourself with Scratch, its editors, and more. If you’re new to Scratch, we recommend you check out our Scratch Coding Camp – Introduction to Scratch 3.0 Badge and our Scratch Coding Camp – Animal Antics Badge. You can also download the Scratch Desktop software to use when you don’t have access to the internet. Visit the Scratch website at to create a Scratch account, check out some amazing projects shared by others in the Scratch community, and use the Scratch online project editor to create amazing projects of your own. The Scratch online community has MILLIONS of shared projects from around the world. These scripts control objects, known as sprites, in your projects. It was designed to help kids like you learn how to program visually with blocks that snap together to create a group of instructions, known as scripts.

Scratch is a free graphical programming language and online community created by the MIT Media Lab.

Scratch cat bounce if touching sprite