SampleProjectsTeam's Recent Projects

2 MadLibs

This is a mad libs game: first it asks you for a few words, and then it puts them into a silly story. It uses the ask block to ask you for the words. The answer block always has the latest thing you typed in, so this project uses it to store your answers in variables. Can you add to this story with more words, or make your own? What other things could you do with the ask and answer blocks?

8 ScrollingDemo

This projects shows how to make a scrolling game. Move using the left and right arrows, and jump with the up arrow. Can you modify this project to make it into a game? You could try adding more terrains, other characters, more animation and key controls for the player, or music. What else can make using scrolling backgrounds? Maybe a tour of your street, a flight through a fantasy world, a walk through your favorite comic? Or whatever else you can imagine! Thanks to archmage for making this project!

6 FruitcraftRPG

Enter the world of Fruitcraft! Use the arrow keys to move out of the house and into town, where you can pick up some really big fruit. Then go into the Fruit Place for a reward! This game makes use of the lists feature, new in Scratch 1.3. Each time you pick up a fruit, its name is added to a list representing your inventory. When you visit the fruit place, the fruit person can tell if you have gathered enough fruit by checking the list length. If you have some fruit, he reads your inventory to you, then gives you the fruit platter. Can you modify this RPG to make it more fun? You could try adding more fruit, changing the backgrounds, adding more places to go, or adding new characters like animals that try to eat the fruit before you can get it. You could even change it to make it about vegetables. Thanks to Wodunne for creating this project!

1 GuessingGame

This guessing game uses the "ask" and "answer" blocks. The "ask" block lets scratch ask a question, and when the person answers, you can use the "answer" block to do something with the answer (like show it using a "say" block). What kinds of guessing games could you make? What are some other things you could do with the ask and answer blocks?

2 Ideas

This project shows a person brainstorming about how to get ideas for their next scratch project. It uses the list blocks, which are in the variables category. There is a list called "ideas," which contains a lot of things for the boy to think about. He chooses a new random item from the list to think each time. Try adding new things for him to think. What other projects can you make where a word or sentence is picked randomly from a list?

WeDo 5 FriendlyGator

Gus the gator may look scary, but he's actually really friendly! This project uses the LEGO WeDo robotics kit. You can find more information about it on the LEGO Education website (www.legoeducation.com). Our model is based on the alligator that you can make with the instructions in the LEGO WeDo kit. A motor makes the alligator's mouth open and close. He has a distance sensor in his mouth. When somebody gets close (like Kiki)... the scratch project turns on the motor so he can give you a kiss!

WeDo 4 Labyrinth

This is a labyrinth game you can play by tilting it! If you have a LEGO WeDo and a laptop computer, you can hold the WeDo tilt sensor against the screen, and it will feel like you are rolling the ball around the maze by tilting the whole computer. This project uses the LEGO WeDo. You can find more information about it here: http://www.legoeducation.com

WeDo 3 Castle

We made a castle out of LEGO bricks, and set it up on top of a laptop, so the scratch project can act as a backdrop. The LEGO WeDo controls a motor that can raise and lower a drawbridge on the castle. There's a sensor in the tower of the castle, so that when the LEGO person goes up there, the scratch project makes the sky turn to night time, and it plays some sleepy music. This project uses the LEGO WeDo. You can find more information about it here: http://www.legoeducation.com The sleepy music in this project is excerpted from Receding Sand by fourstones (http://ccmixter.org/files/victor/624) under the CC BY-NC 2.5 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/)

WeDo 2 Puppet

We used a purple glove, some yellow feathers, googly eyes, and a LEGO WeDo kit to make a puppet. With scratch and the WeDo, we can do a new kind of puppetry. The feathers on the puppet are motorized, so they can spin when the puppet is excited. The scratch project uses the tilt sensor to decide when they spin. You can also use the scratch project as a backdrop for a puppet show, by holding up your puppet in front of a screen or a projection. What kind of a puppet will you make? How will you use the motor and sensors to add special effects to your puppet? Where will it go on its adventure? This project uses the LEGO WeDo. You can find more information about it here: http://www.legoeducation.com

WeDo 1 MagicWand

This project lets you transform some broccoli into a different food using a magic wand. We made our wand out of a stick and some decorations. Then we attached a LEGO WeDo tilt sensor, so that scratch can tell when the wand is pointed down at the broccoli. What else can you make happen with a magic wand? This project uses the LEGO WeDo. You can find more information about it here: http://www.legoeducation.com

Sensorboard 5 Squish

Sensorboard 4 FruitOPhone

We made a xyophone using a scratch sensor board and some chunks of cantaloupe! We cut up some cantaloupe into chunks and arranged it on a plate. By touching the clips to the fruit in different places, you can get different sensor values for resistance. That's because the fruit acts like a resistor! You can experiment with lots of things and see what sounds you get. Just try touching the clips to them and see what sensor values you get. We've had fun with different foods like fruits and vegetables, Jello, or macaroni and cheese. Water spilled on a table works great- try smearing it around. You can also try touching the clips to your skin. You can try it with multiple people too: have one person touch one clip, and the other person touch the other, then the two people touch each other. What else could you experiment with? Plants? The water faucet? Finger paint? A pencil drawing on paper? There's more information about the scratch sensor board here: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Sensor_Boards

Sensorboard 3 Trombone

This project turns the scratch sensor board into a trombone. Just blow into the mic, and move the slider to play different notes. There's more information about the scratch sensor board here: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Sensor_Boards

Sensorboard 2 Everything

This project includes stacks that demonstrate how each type of sensor on a Scratch Sensor Board/Picoboard can change the way the character looks. Start them separately or at the same time. Comments near the stacks explain what the original scripts does. The last comment suggest ways to change this project. There's more information about the scratch sensor board here: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Sensor_Boards

Sensorboard 1 Sunrise

I made a little house out of a cardboard box and some sponges, and I put a sensor board on the roof. Then I made a little scene in the scratch project that reacts to the light sensor on the house. When it sees light, it makes the sun rise. I also added a battery that charges up depending on how bright the sun is. What else could you make that uses the light sensor? There's more information about the scratch sensor board here: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Sensor_Boards