This project is ideal for introducing (very young) students to programming in a seasonally appropriate and engaging way.
- Go to the Scratch website.
- Open the Scratch project file by uploading the .sb3 file.
- Click the green flag to start the project.
For this project, I used the following files. You can use the links (last checked in November 2024) to find other similar ressources.
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Barrett Ward, Christmas Tree in the Snow from openclipart.org
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Kevin MacLeod, Jingle Bells (120bpm) (Kevin MacLeod) (ISRC USUAN1100187).opus from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
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All materials from Scratch are permitted under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
Please check and respect the licenses.
Tools you need to get this project up and running:
- Scratch for programming
Tools that I used and that might be helpful for you too:
- GIMP for image editing
- Kazam for screencasting
- Video Trimmer and OpenShot for video editing
- Audacity to convert the music file format
The MIT license applies only to the Scratch project, i.e., the actual programming.