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Add energy to your characters by animating their appearance.

Your characters can move in different ways to show how they feel, or do a dance!

How a character moves expresses how you feel about something you care about, and it helps others share that mood.

In Scratch, you can change a sprite’s appearance or “costume” to animate it.

Select a character to animate. This example uses the main character. Click the “costumes” tab. Your sprite may already have other costumes you can program.

If you don’t see a costume, create your own! Right click a costume and click duplicate.

Explore the editor tools to create a new look for your character.

Use the “next costume” block and a “repeat” loop to program your animation.

Whoooaa! Slow down your animation by adding a “wait” block inside the “repeat” loop.

Add a “when this sprite clicked” event to the top of this code stack.

This looks great! Consider adding similar code to other sprites in your project.

For a challenge, use the “switch costume” blocks between the “say” blocks to make your sprite react to what is being said.