What's Your Social Story on Scratch?

Pick one social situation to show (for example starting school sharing a toy or making a new friend) and write 1 or 2 sentences about it on your paper.

Choose 2 or 3 characters for your story and write which feeling each character might show (happy nervous sad proud etc.) on your paper.

Go to scratch.mit.edu and click Create to start a new Scratch project.

Delete the default cat sprite if you don’t need it.

Add a sprite for each character in your story.

Add or edit costumes for each character so they have different faces or poses for their feelings (for example neutral happy sad).

Choose or draw a backdrop that matches your social situation.

For the character who starts the scene add a script: when green flag clicked switch costume to neutral and say your opening line for 2 seconds.

Create two small button sprites and label each one with a short choice phrase (for example “Ask to Play” and “Wait”).

Add scripts to the button sprites so each button uses when this sprite clicked then broadcast a different message like ChoiceA or ChoiceB.

For the broadcast ChoiceA add scripts for the characters that use when I receive ChoiceA then switch to appropriate costumes and say short lines showing feelings for 2 seconds.

For the broadcast ChoiceB add scripts for the characters that use when I receive ChoiceB then switch to appropriate costumes and say short lines showing feelings for 2 seconds.

Add a Try Again button sprite with a when this sprite clicked broadcast Restart script and add a when I receive Restart script to return costumes and backdrop to the starting state.

Click the green flag to play your interactive story test the choices watch the feelings and change any words timings or costumes to make the emotions clear.

Share your finished interactive social story on DIY.org