Once you have gone through initial projects like how to make a cat dance or Create “About Me” project on Scratch, you will like to create your very own game or a story with this amazing software. How to make that idea work on Scratch stage? You’ll need little planning and big imagination..
First of all, decide what you want to create. You should have a one sentence project idea for that. Like, “I want to show a plant life cycle” or “I want to make a cat run after a rat”. Write down a description of your idea on a notebook. Ok, you can write it on your word-processor software. If you are building a game, you should know all the rules of that game. You must be able to answer any dumb or smart question about that game right away. Same way, on writing an interactive story, first decide on sequence of scenes and dialogues.
Second, try to note down steps to develop your project. There will be one step for each action. For example, you can start with a garden background and showing a seed in a pot as your first step to create a plant life cycle project. It will be easy and quick to start stacking blocks for these steps.
Third, start building small parts. Check on them first. Observe the actions. Are they what you’r expecting for? If yes, go ahead and build some more. If you see something odd, find out what is wrong and build it right. This approach will get you to the final stage sooner and smooth..
Programming for kids 