Step 1 is to get your Funhouse set up in the Adafruit IO WipperSnapper page. Follow the instructions in the previously mentioned Quickstart guide to do this.

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Set up the PIR sensor

In addition to the built-in LED that we set up from the Quickstart guide, we'll also want to get the PIR motion sensor set up within WipperSnapper.

From the WipperSnapper page, click "New Component"
Select "PIR Sensor"

Name the sensor
Select "PIR Sensor" for the PIR Sensor pin
choose the "On Change" option for the return interval. This means that the sensor will ping out data only when it is triggered (aka when Cujo the turtle moves)

Your WipperSnapper page should now look something like this (click on image to enlarge)
Ignore the "triggers" and "dashboard" for now, we'll create those next!

Create a Feed for the PIR sensor

Now that the FunHouse is connected to WipperSnapper and the PIR sensor and LED are set up, it's time to create a feed. Why? The sensor data needs a home. When the sensor is tripped, we want to send a message to this new feed documenting that movement was detected at a given time.

In the top pane, click "Feeds"
Then click "view all"
Create a new feed group and call it "WipperSnapper" or whatever you'd like

Within the new feed group, click "new feed" and enter the details about the feed.
Click "create"

Set up the Actions

Now that we have a home for our data, we need to point the data to that home when certain events happen. Now it's time to define those events with actions. Here are the actions we'll create:

Send a message "Turtle moved!" to the motion sensor feed each time the sensor has been activated.
Send a message "Turtle is still" to the motion sensor feed when there is no longer any movement.
Set the LED to ON when the sensor is triggered
Set the LED to OFF when the sensor is not triggered.