We just completed our first Scratch project from concept to completion. In the process, our animated birthday card introduced us to several Scratch programming concepts. We started by using the built-in paint editor to create sprites and explore the differences between bitmap and vector graphics. We then animated these sprites by using graphical transformations. Throughout the chapter we relied on the following blocks to make the animations work: forever, repeat (), and broadcast () and wait () secs.

In the next chapter, we will create a storybook with multiple scenes. We'll also build navigation that lets the user click through the chapters.