Scratch
Beginner
40 mins
Teacher/Student led
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Hide and Seek: Making Characters Appear and Disappear

In this interactive step-by-step lesson, you'll create a hide-and-seek game with characters that disappear and reappear on your screen. You'll add characters, set a background, code the characters to hide and reappear, and test your game. Optional steps include adding sound effects and more characters for a more challenging game.
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    1 - Introduction

    In this lesson, weโ€™re going to create an interactive hide-and-seek game! Youโ€™ll learn how to make characters disappear when you click on them and then reappear somewhere else on the screen. By the end of this lesson, youโ€™ll have a fun game where your characters can play hide and seek at the click of a button!

    2 - Create a new project

    Create a new project in Scratch.

    3 - Add Two Characters

    Start by adding two characters to your project. You can choose characters like a Cat and a Dog, or any pair that would be fun to play hide and seek with.

    4 - Set the Background

    Choose a background where your characters can play hide and seek, like a garden, a forest, or a park. This will set the scene for your game.

    5 - Make the First Character Hide

    Click on the first character (e.g., the Cat) to start coding. Begin with a "when this sprite clicked" block from the Events section. Underneath, add the "hide" block from the Looks section. This will make the Cat disappear when you click on it. when this sprite clicked hide

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    Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is available for free at https://scratch.mit.edu
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