First, open up the Scratch editor. You can find the online Scratch editor at jumpto.cc/scratch-new. It looks like this:

The cat sprite that you can see is the Scratch mascot. Let’s get rid of it, by right-clicking and then clicking ‘delete’.

Next, click ‘Choose sprite from library’ to open up a list of all the Scratch sprites.

Scroll down until you see a drum sprite. Click on a drum, and click ‘OK’ to add it to your project.

Click the ‘shrink’ icon, and then click on the drum a few times to make it smaller.

At the moment, the stage is white, and looks pretty boring! Let’s add a backdrop to the stage, by clicking ‘Choose backdrop from library’.

Click ‘Indoors’ on the left, and then click on a stage backdrop and click ‘OK’.

Your stage should now look like this:

You can find the code blocks in the ‘Scripts’ tab, and they are all colour-coded!

Click on the drum sprite, and then drag these 2 blocks into the code area to the right, making sure that they are connected together (like Lego blocks):

Click the drum to try out your new instrument!

You can also change how the drum looks when it’s clicked, by creating a new costume. Click the ‘Costumes’ tab, and you’ll see the drum image.

Right-click on the costume and click ‘duplicate’ to create a copy of the costume.

Click on the new costume (called ‘drum2’) and then select the line tool and draw lines to make it look like the drum is making a sound.

The names of the costumes aren’t very helpful at the moment. Rename the 2 costumes to ‘not hit’ and ‘hit’ by typing the new name of each costume into the text box.

Now that you have 2 different costumes for your drum, you can choose which costume is displayed! Add these 2 blocks to your drum:

The code block for changing the costume is in the Looks section.

Test your drum. When clicked, your drum should now look like it’s been hit!