Explore AI Voices: AWS Text to Speech in Scratch!
How is Athena Feeling? Build an AI-Powered Emotion Game with Scratch
Help your child explore emotions, coding, and creativity in one engaging project.
How is Athena Feeling? is a beginner-friendly game design lesson that introduces kids to emotional awareness, original artwork, and real AI voice technology, all built using Scratch and AWS Text-to-Speech.
Students will draw or choose their own character, assign feelings like happy, sad, or curious, and bring them to life with voices, costume changes, and keyboard interactions.
What’s Inside:
- Full step-by-step PDF lesson guide
- Scratch project walkthrough and code blocks
- Art upload instructions for custom character emotions
- Integration of AWS Text-to-Speech (no signup required)
- Bonus: Printable logic check + remix worksheet
What Kids Learn:
- How to code voice responses and emotional behaviors
- How to use Scratch’s extension system
- How to apply Object-Oriented Programming concepts in a fun way
- How to express ideas through visual storytelling and AI tools
How is Athena Feeling? is a creative Scratch project that helps kids explore emotions through coding, voice, and art. Using AWS Text-to-Speech, students build an interactive game where their character talks, reacts, and changes expression based on emotion. Includes a step-by-step guide, artwork upload tips, and a logic worksheet. No experience needed, great for ages 8–13 and perfect for STEM + SEL learning.