I think I get what you’re trying to do here. I’ve also been exploring some simplified options for early elementary. I’ve also faced the same issue that you’re facing with the grey variable.
Unfortunately, there are a few things that I can’t get to show up in the toolbox, no matter how hard I try. Those include:
- Pre-declared variables
- Pre-filled If statements
- Pre-filled conditionals
What we can do is make it so that young’uns don’t need to access the sprite directly because all of the blocks make available to them already point to the predeclared sprite in question. Here’s an example of a tutorial that does that: