User Guide

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The key concept behind Scratch is that everything you need to
move, animate, or control is a sprite. Each sprite is a collection
of images and scripts, and is independent of all of the others.
You combine the colored blocks from the Blocks Palette to set
the behavior of a specific sprite.
Opening and Saving Projects
Scratch projects are saved in a special file format that uses the
extension .sb. These files contain all of the graphics and sound
files that you import into Scratch, and all of the scripts that you
create.
To save a project to a new file:
1. On the Application Menu, click File, and then click
Save As…
2. In the New Filename box, type a name for your
project and then click OK.
If you have previously saved your project and you want to save it
again:
• On the Application Menu, click the Save this project
button (it looks like a floppy disk); or
• On the Application Menu, click File, and then click
Save.
1 Cursor Tools. These buttons are for duplicating, deleting, growing,
and shrinking the sprites on the stage. Click the cursor tool, and
then click a sprite to activate the function.
2 Application Menu.
3 Blocks Palette.
4 Scripts Area. This is where you combine blocks to control the sprite
that is selected in the Sprite List.
5 Sprite List. All of the sprites in your project are shown here. Click a
sprite to show the scripts that you have added for a particular sprite.
6 Stage. This is where your sprites move and interact with each other.