Scratch Digital Art

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Rainbow Paintbrush

In this lesson, students will learn how to create a rainbow paintbrush using Scratch's pen blocks, colour changing, and mouse movement features. They will create a drawing tool that changes colours as it moves, following their mouse pointer.

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1 Introduction
2 Create a new project
3 Add the Ball sprite
4 Follow our mouse pointer
5 Add the Pen Extension
6 Pen Down and Draw
7 Clear the Drawing
8 Rainbow Drawing
9 Wrap Up
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1 - Introduction

Welcome to our exciting lesson, Rainbow Paintbrush! In this lesson, we are going to create a fun drawing tool that changes colours as you draw.

We will use Scratch's pen blocks, colour changing, and mouse movement features. By the end of this lesson, you will have your own rainbow paintbrush that follows your mouse pointer and changes colour as it moves. Let's get started!

2 - Create a new project

Open the Scratch website in a new tab and create a new project. Delete the cat sprite from the project.

scratch.mit.edu

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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3 - Add the Ball sprite

We need to add a sprite that we will use for out pen.

Add the Ball sprite from the sprite library and give it this code to shrink it smaller.


  when green flag clicked 
 set size to (30) %

Click on the green flag to run your code and shrink the ball.

Scratch: How to add a sprite from the library

To add a sprite from the sprite library follow these steps:

Put your mouse over the Choose a Sprite button
Click on the magnifying glass
Find the sprite you want in the library
Click on your chosen sprite

You can use search box or the filter links (Animals, People, Fantasy etc) to locate your sprite.

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4 - Follow our mouse pointer

Now, we want our pen (the ball sprite) to follow our mouse pointer. This will allow us to control where we draw on the screen.

To do this, add the following code to your ball sprite:

when green flag clicked 
set size to (30) %
  forever 
  
go to [mouse-pointer v] 
end

Click on the green flag to run your code. You should see the ball sprite following your mouse pointer around the screen. This means you're ready to start drawing!

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Rainbow Paintbrush

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1 - Introduction

2 - Create a new project

3 - Add the Ball sprite

4 - Follow our mouse pointer

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