Making blocks on Snapchat is a fun way to add creativity and personalization to your snaps. Snapchat introduced blocks in late 2022 as a new way to decorate photos and videos. Blocks allow you to overlay colorful shapes, emojis, drawings, and text onto your snaps. Here’s a step-by-step guide to making blocks on Snapchat.
What are blocks on Snapchat?
Blocks are movable stickers that can be layered on top of snaps. They come in different shapes like circles, triangles, hearts, stars, and more. Blocks can display emojis, Bitmojis, text, doodles, and color gradients.
Blocks give you more flexibility and control over snap decorations. Previously, Snapchat stickers were static and couldn’t be resized or rotated. With blocks, you can place shapes anywhere on the snap, resize them, and rotate or flip them.
How to make blocks on Snapchat
Making blocks on Snapchat only takes a few taps. Here are the steps:
- Open the Snapchat app and tap the capture button to take a new photo or video snap.
- Tap the stickers button in the top right corner (it looks like a square smiley face).
- Scroll down and select the “Blocks” option.
- Choose a block shape like a circle, heart, star, etc. Then customize it by:
- Tapping the color circle icon to change colors
- Tapping the gradients icon to add color gradients
- Tapping the emoji icon to overlay emojis
- Tapping the text icon to add text
- Doodling on the block
- Adding your Bitmoji if the block shape allows it
Block shape types
Snapchat offers a variety of block shapes to choose from. Each shape has its own options for customization:
Circles
- Change circle color
- Add gradients
- Include Bitmoji
- Overlay emojis
- Write text
- Doodle
Hearts
- Change heart color
- Add gradients
- Doodle
- Include emojis
- Write text
Stars
- Change star color
- Add gradients
- Doodle
- Include emojis
- Write text
Triangles
- Change triangle color
- Add gradients
- Doodle
- Include emojis
- Write text
Rectangles
- Change rectangle color
- Add gradients
- Doodle
- Include emojis
- Write text
“S” Shapes
- Change “S” color
- Add gradients
- Doodle
- Include emojis
- Write text
Creative ways to use blocks
With endless options for customizing blocks, there are so many creative ways to use them on Snapchat. Here are some fun block ideas:
- Event announcements – Make bold, colorful blocks with event details overlaid.
- Birthdays – Add gradients, Bitmojis, and text to celebrate birthdays.
- Quotes – Overlay inspirational or funny quotes on bold blocks.
- Polls – Make voting poll blocks to survey friends.
- DIY tutorials – Use blocks with text steps over project photos.
- ToBeContinued stickers – Offset blocks to creatively reveal photo snippets.
- Countdowns – Make a descending number countdown with text blocks.
- Designs – Get creative with patterns, shapes, and drawings.
- Movie/TV quotes – Recreate famous quotes from shows with block text.
- Lyrics – Add song lyrics line-by-line with text blocks.
Tips for making great blocks
Follow these tips when designing your own blocks for stunning and effective snaps:
- Use bold, contrasting colors that stand out against the photo.
- Be purposeful with text – avoid lengthy paragraphs.
- Overlap blocks to create depth and dimension.
- Rotate blocks to give a playful, dynamic look.
- Have fun mixing block shapes like circles, hearts, and stars.
- Add your Bitmoji to personalize.
- Use emojis to quickly convey reactions and emotions.
- Limit yourself to 2-4 blocks per snap for clean designs.
- Play with alignment – center, justify, or stack blocks.
- Resize blocks proportionately by pinching to zoom.
Do blocks disappear?
The blocks you add to snaps will disappear after the snap is viewed. Blocks are ephemeral like Snapchat’s other creative tools. They do not permanantly alter the photo or video – they are just overlays. After someone views your snap with blocks, the blocks will not save to their Memories or device. So feel free to get creative and silly with blocks!
Saving blocks
If you make an amazing block design that you want to save, there are a couple options:
- Screenshot the snap before sending – Your device will save the screenshot so you can view the block design again.
- Save the snap to Memories – Open Memories after taking the snap to save a copy with the blocks included.
Your best block creations can be preserved this way. Just keep in mind the blocks still won’t be visible if someone else views the exported snap.
Editing blocks after placing
It’s easy to edit blocks even after you’ve placed them on a snap. Just follow these steps:
- Tap and hold on a block you want to edit.
- This will open the block’s edit menu.
- Adjust the block using the color, gradients, emoji, text, and doodle options.
- You can also flip, rotate, resize, or drag the block to reposition it.
- When done editing, tap “Done.”
With the edit menu, you can tweak blocks until your snap design is perfect!
Conclusion
Blocks bring Snapchat to the next level with tons of new design possibilities. Making customized blocks is easy and intuitive right within the Snapchat app. Tap into blocks whenever you need extra flair for your snaps. With endless options like colors, Bitmojis, text, shapes, and gradients, you can make each snap unique. Unleash your creativity with blocks on Snapchat!