Making a sprite’s costume change with Scratch

Tutorial plan

1- What's a sprite's costume in Scratch ?

2- How change sprite's costume with Scratch ?

What's a sprite's costume ?

Changing a sprite’s costume in Scratch is important because it allows your project to be more interactive, expressive, and dynamic.

A costume is like a frame or layer of a character.

Sprites can have multiple costumes to:

- Show different poses

- Perform animations

- Change emotions

- Wear different clothes

- Represent different states (e.g., happy/sad, running/jumping)

How change sprite's costume with Scratch ?

Objective:

Students or users will learn how to make a sprite switch between costumes using Scratch blocks during animation.

Step 1: Set Up the Project

Open Scratch

Create a new project

Rename the project to something like: Costume Changer

Step 2: Duplicate the costumes of cat sprite

1- Click on the sprite in the Sprites pane.

2- At the top, click the “Costumes” tab.

3- Right-click on the costume you want to copy (e.g., costume1).

4- Select “duplicate” from the pop-up menu.

5- A copy will appear, usually named something like costume1 copy.

Step 3: change the color of costumes

1- Select the costume you want to modify.

2- Click the color box to choose a new color

3- Select the Fill Tool (paint bucket icon).

4- Click on the part of the costume you want to recolor

5- We get the cat sprite which has these three costumes

Step 4: Add Code to Switch Costumes

1-To switch between two costumes when the green flag is clicked:

2- To make a sprite animate by switching costumes continuously: