Time to Code Your Orders on Scratch

Open Scratch and start a new project so you have a blank stage to code your game.

Sketch a simple menu on paper listing three food or toy items and a price for each so you know what to build.

Create one clickable sprite for each menu item in Scratch and draw a button costume that shows the item name.

Add code to each menu item sprite using a "when this sprite clicked" block to broadcast a unique message like "order_item1" for that item.

Make a Customer sprite and add a "when I receive" block for each order message so the customer says which item they ordered.

Create a Kitchen sprite and add "when I receive" blocks for each order message that switch its costume to a preparing look then wait 2 seconds and broadcast a matching "item_ready" message.

Make a Delivery sprite and add a "when I receive item_ready" block that glides to the Customer sprite position then uses a "say" block to tell the customer their order has arrived and glides back.

Create a variable called Served and add code in the Delivery sprite to change Served by 1 right after it finishes delivering an item.

Add a timer by making a variable named Time Left and add code to set Time Left to 60 at the green flag then decrease it by 1 every second until it reaches 0.

Test your game by clicking the green flag and then clicking the menu item sprites to place orders and watch the customer kitchen and delivery sprites work.

Save and share your Scratch project and then share your finished creation on DIY.org.