Stop Motion @ Home

Craft materials:

• an A4 paper box (or a similar quantity of cardboard)
• a range of Paper (white paper, colours, can be reused packaging, magazines)
• Gluestick
• Plasticine (ideally a small packet of at least 12 colours, or homemade play dough or clay in various colours. If you don’t have access to any of these use objects from around the home to create your character.. buttons, wire, leaves, rocks)
• Sticky tape
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Toothpicks
• A range of drawing tools (e.g. markers, pencils, crayons)
• A few modelling tools sourced from around the house or clay modelling tools: Something to cut with (e.g butter knife), Something very pointy (e.g. a pointy fork), A long fairly blunt stick (e.g. chopstick), Something to roll with (e.g. mini rolling pin, sauce bottle)

Technology:

• A tablet or mobile device on which to capture animations, with the following free apps installed:
• Stop Motion Studio – the free app is fine, but the “Pro” paid version gives a few more options if you want to purchase it.
• FlipaClip (for Android or iOS)
• Padlet (for Android or iOS)
• A device (e.g. computer, laptop or tablet) on which to watch the video demos during activities
• Internet connection for all devices

The online learning space is only visible and available to signed-up participants (a maximum of 20 children).

Participants can only directly communicate with the facilitator and moderator, who both hold appropriate child safety checks.

Any communication from participants intended for other participants is moderated: that is, each question or shared work is reviewed by the moderator before it is made visible to the group. Any posts which are unfriendly, share personal information, or are otherwise inappropriate will not be shared. The Padlet app is used for this purpose.

We encourage parents to be present, and supervise or even join-in if available to do so.

If kids have existing friends who are also participating, parents can choose to use their own supervised communication channels for those kids to chat and collaborate during the activity.

The ability to post will end when the workshop has completed.

Beale Gurney has worked on 10 animated television series including Hoota and Snoz, Pixel Pinkie and Fanshaw and Crudnut. She also uses animation techniques in creating a range of other media including games, web apps, and interactive resources. Beale currently works as an educational designer with a focus in designing engaging online learning experiences.