Vector Scratch Blocks

Contributed by Paul Heather, January 23, 2014

In September 2014 Computing will be a new curriculum subject and I wanted to make some resources that could be used to support Scratch

Original Author:
Education Level: Preschool and Kindergarten, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College and University
Content Types: Other
Curricular Areas: Computer Science
Keywords: Scratch, image, blocks, clipart, Vector

After seeing these hands-on blocks I thought it would be great if anyone could make their own. So I set about creating some vector versions of the standard Scratch blocks that could be scaled to any size required. As I created them I also thought how useful it would be if Teachers could use them in other ways, for example, displays, PowerPoints and on Interactive Whiteboards.

With this in mine the Scratch Block Package currently contains 66 blocks in the following formats:

SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics.
EMF – Vectors for use in Microsoft Office products.
PNG – High resolution raster images with transparency.
SMART Gallery Package – Vectors for use with SMART Notebook.

I hope these are of use to the education community. Blocks currently missing (sensing and operators) will be added in the near future.

Images:

Other Files:

Scratch_Blocks_Package_0_9.zip

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Comments

Jessica Brown

Member

August 03, 2018

Thanks for creating these. I have used them over the years. Any plans to create new vector blocks for Scratch 3.0?

Gloria Lao García

Member

May 08, 2018

Wow! Thank you!

Anne Marie Wyman

Member

November 22, 2017

Thank you for creating these. These will be so useful for me. I have been looking for something like this,

AbdelRahman AbdelMotaal

Member

March 28, 2017

thank You ... :D

Julie Anne Hopp

Member

May 02, 2016

Sweet!

Alison Lisberger

Member

March 14, 2016

These are wonderful! I use them with my students to highlight blocks that may be useful in their projects. I'd like to get all of the categories to keep everything consistent. Is it possible to share the sensing and operators blocks? Thanks so much in advance :)

LISA DOUTHIT

Member

March 11, 2016

Thank YOU! A PLN friend pointed me to these! LOVe LOVe LOVe!

Patrick Black

Member

February 26, 2016

These are amazing, I've been looking for something like this. Screenshots pale in comparison!!

Thank You!

Patrick

Yasin Kocak

Member

February 07, 2016

It is great, Thank you

Wilhelmina Peragine

Administrator

January 26, 2016

Here's a set of personal blocks that was posted on twitter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Rdc8LvrUmKamNKRjNDYmw0dGM/view

Ashkira Aden

Member

September 23, 2015

Thank you for sharing!! It will be very usefull for our unplugged coding in primary school.

Christina Workman

Member

September 11, 2015

So glad to have found these! I was goign to make my own and now I don't have to :)

Heather Gaines

Member

April 19, 2015

This is perfect! I'm planning a code camp this summer for students and these will be perfect to have for the walls! Thanks for creating these.

Dai Barnes

Member

March 04, 2015

Hello,

This resource says that it is missing. Has it been removed? Can it be reposted?

Thanks,

Dai

LeeAnn Wells

Member

August 14, 2014

These are fantastic!
I'm thinking.................bulletin board!
I'm thinking.................promotional display for after school program!
Fantastic!
Thank you!
LeeAnn

Anne Croft

Member

June 07, 2014

Really useful images Looking forward to seeing the sensing and operators blocks? Pretty please?

Ed Heslop

Member

April 09, 2014

Thanks for sharing these. They will be very useful when creating my own tutorials.

Robin Ricketts

Member

February 07, 2014

Thank you for sharing these. It is just what I am looking for.

Dan Levy

Member

February 05, 2014

What a fantastic resource...thank you!

Sue Gray

Member

January 28, 2014

These are great, thanks for sharing. They'll really help with our younger pupils.

Bernd Gärtner

Member

January 27, 2014

Thanks for this great effort, Paul!! Also for showing scripts in Scratch projects, vector graphic blocks are highly desirable. I'd need them in German, though, and others may need them in French, Spanisch,... That's why I was thinking whether there could be a solution directly in the Scratch editor.

Here's what I mean: Switching the editor to my language, and pressing the + button in the script area a number of times gives me big crisp-looking scripts in my language; so it appears that the editor internally has a vector graphic representation of the scripts. If only that representation could be exported in svg format, say...

James Abela

Member

January 25, 2014

Thank you very much for these. I am about to write a new module for Scratch and these will be very useful!

Michelle Choi

Member

January 24, 2014

These are so great! Thank you for creating and sharing them.

Vector Scratch Blocks

These are wonderful! I use them with my students to highlight blocks that may be useful in their projects. I'd like to get all of the categories to keep everything consistent. Is it possible to share the sensing and operators blocks? Thanks so much in advance :)

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