Today we are going to learn about variables. Variables are a block that can add ➕ or subtract ➖ it’s amount to actually make more options. Perhaps next time 🕐 I will explain more of its secrets 🤫 but today I am going to tell you the basics. To make a variable you need to put add ➕ variable. You should name it something appropriate like if that was the amount of points you should put score. The next block is set variable to ___ put the amount the variable you want. So if you put set variable to 3 the variable amount will go to three. The next block is like it besides you add and subtract. So if you put 1 every time you press the space key every time you do it you add the amount of your variable by 1. The next two is show/hide variable. This is if you want to see the amount on the game screen or not. Good luck doing more stuff with it and happy scratching!!!

On scratch you probably noticed messages📢 right? Well today in this short blog I am going to tell you!!! (Unfortunately I don’t have a game for it 😢 but most of my games have messages in them). Messages 📢 are blocks that can continue one block to the other even if different sprites. If that confuses you don’t worry since I am going to explain it  😳. In meaning, if you put a message 📢 you can continue the action in the same sprite and in different sprites. So if you wanted to make scratch cat 😺say hello 👋  and then gobo say goodbye 👋. You will put on scratch cat 😺 /on start/say hello 👋/broadcast message 📢 ___ (whatever message 📢 you want)/ and on gobo you will put /when I receive  message 📢 / (whatever message 📢 you want)/say goodbye 👋/. I hope 🤞 this helps you understand messages 📢 and happy scratching!!!

If you go on scratch you can see on the bottom on all the different types of blocks  this strange 🧐 thing that looks like this . When you click on the sign 🪧 you see different functions that says multiple ✖️ things such as translate 🇨🇾🇬🇶🇫🇴, makey makey, pen ✒️ and much more!!! I know many of these function but today 🗓 I am going to talk about the pen ✒️. Pen ✒️ is the function with the pen ✒️ that is drawing 🖍 multiple colors🏳️‍🌈. To access the pen✒️ all you need to do is click on the function. But first sign in one scratch so you can comment 💬, share your project and much more!!! To sign in go to my blog post http://blogs.scarsdaleschools.org/pchadie26/2020/12/01/cloning-on-scratch-%f0%9f%a5%b3%f0%9f%a5%b3%f0%9f%a5%b3/ and read it. Anyway if you click on the function you will see another category on the category screen 📺 called pen ✒️. The first block is called erase all.  This will make all the pen ✒️ lines — disappear. The next block is called stamp . This will make a copy of the spite  sort of like cloning beside the stamp will only stay were he was stamped. The next two blocks are pen ✒️ up ⬆️ and pen ✒️ down ⬇️. If the pen ✒️ is up ⬆️ then nothing will happen if the sprite moves. However if the pen ✒️ is down ⬇️ then if the sprite moves then there will be a trail of color. The next block is set pen ✒️ color 🔴 to . If you click on the red 🔴 circle 🔘 you can change the color 🔴. This will make the pen ✒️ color 🔴 got to whatever color 🔴 you chose. This is pretty much the same thing with change the color 🔴 to . The next two blocks are the same thing besides instead you change the color 🔴 by using numbers 🔢. I suggest to use the regular way in the begining then after you do it with numbers  🔢. Finally the last two blocks are changing and set pen ✒️ size to ___ this is to decide what pen ✒️ size you want to use the lower the smaller and the higher the bigger the pen drawings is going to be 🖍. I hope you understand the pen ✒️. If not don’t worry 🤯 you can look at my pen ✒️  design on scratch which is the link below:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/457809549/

Happy coding!!!