

These are incredibly easy to create ( instructions here), requiring only two circles of card and some string. These are only a few minutes long, but they were great as inspiration for ideas.Ģ) One of our first practical activities was making thaumatropes. Here are some of the activities that we did during our 'Animation Days':ġ) We watched some animations! Over the course of the days, we watched the Wallace and Gromit Cracking Contraptions short films. The children were all incredibly enthused by their stop-motion animations, so I wanted to take advantage of this by trying other forms of animation.

We've been making these for many years now and we seem to learn new tricks each and every time we make another. The children had been making their own stop motion animations (using I Can Animate and iMovie) with considerable success.

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