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How to Make a Character Designer in Scratch

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How to Make a Character Designer in Scratch
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Summary

A project tutorial building an interactive "dress-up" character designer, where clicking arrow buttons cycles through costume options for hair, clothes, and accessories -- a creative use of costume-switching blocks.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

This video builds a tool where clicking buttons changes a character's look.

  1. What block switches the character's costume when a button is clicked?
  2. What parts of the character can the player customize?
  3. What other costume options would you add?

Quick work-a-long

Words to know: costume, customize, button.

Try it: Add at least two costume options to one sprite and a button that switches between them.