Hi beckyweb,
welcome to Scratch! There are a lot of documents that can get you started in creating Scratch projects. You will find most of these by visiting the 'support' pages: http://scratch.wik.is/Support . Another good way to get started is to browse through the featured projects or to have a look at the projects in some of the galleries, download one which you particularly like, open it in Scratch and see how it was done. An excellent idea for a first project is to animate the letters of your name.
Have fun!
P.S. I moved this post to the 'All About Scratch' section and I'd like to ask you to remove any links from your signature that are just advertising non-Scratch related commercial sites. I think it's okay to link to personal sites, but commercial ads with no personal relevance might be considered inappropriate in an educational environment such as Scratch. Thanks!
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Cool, Jens! You have 222 posts and I have 444! lol
What a coincidence.
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