STEAM Art Lessons

** Another way to make these on iPads

Bundled Veggie Monster resources

AR Lima Bean Monster Book Cover

And this one with step by step photos
Monochromatic Painting Blog post
Download the 3/4 portrait PPT lesson
Monochromatic Fugleflick (music video to teach concept)
Student examples

See also my Wish for the World project.

Blog post of resources
Students' painted examples
Students' digital examples
Spooky Scream video
Download your custom
photo booth-your face in the scream

Tip: Use the Superimpose app to eliminate the green screen. See my tutorial.

(art, history, technology, storytelling)

See also this new post with new ideas for workflow.

Class Collaborative Rotoscope Lesson

Find all my lesson resources, template, tutorial, and examples on this blog post.

Find all my lesson resources and examples on this blog post. Here is another post with slightly different design.

Download the lesson

Find all my lesson resources and examples for doing this project digitally and with a mix of physical/digital on this blog post.

(photoshop techniques, art history, popular culture)

Find all my lesson resources and examples on this blog post.

See this idea for an all class stop-motion animation.

See this idea for using objects in stop motion vids.

This post has directions for an all class stop motion idea.

Download the eBook with 48 Fugleflicks and printable PDF

See this idea for creating independent learning stations with QR codes linking to student-created art-related videos.

See this post to view a quick vid of our Fugleflick film fest.

Find all my lesson resources and examples on this blog post.

Explore over a dozen black history Lego Designs on Tpt

Find all my lesson resources and examples on this blog post. See also my article in School Arts Magazine about our Rotational Symmetry Lego Wall.

See our Character Counts Lego Mural.

See our Black History Month (round two) lego mural.

See this post and video explaining the process.

Find all the other info on this project in this post.

Explore all of our Fugleflicks in this eBook

See the post of finished artwork and animations.

See the post about our stop-motion green screen animation stations. Download the green screen stop motion lesson from TpT here. See this movie explaining the process.

See the updated version of the lesson here.

View my tutorial, see examples and more here.

Find the original post here.

P.S. The app now allows you to add a drop shadow. This eliminates a step and makes it much easier to create.

View this post explaining how to make the fairies.

View this post showing students animating their fairies.

Tie this lesson to Fairy Evidence from the Fairy Scientist.

This post shows a more streamlined way to make fairies.

View the project blog post with tutorial, handouts, and photos of students creating on their iPads.

View the article I wrote for School Arts Magazine about this project here.

(reflect on learning, communication, publish)

See my Musical Tutorial of Audioboo.

I assembled my drawings into an interactive Thinglink to make a quiz. View it here.

Extra: I use Chatterpix to make the images speak here.

Both are on this blog post.

View my post with examples, a video tutorial, written steps, and other resources.

See this post that combines animated video & green screen through or around a silhouette.

This would be a great scene in a video about how students use their everyday superpowers to make a positive change in this world. See also the superhero silhouette project.

See this post shares the step for creating this digital triptych from one original image, handout, and student examples.

See how we made the monochromatic portrait here.

Download the portrait lesson here.

There's nothing fishy smelling about this idea.

Find my lesson examples, student made video, and resources in this post.

Students can organize their original art, photos, or a combination of both into a pic collage collage. See an example.

Use an app like brushes to take notes visually. See this post where you can play back the drawing as a video to see the creative process. See this movie I made from my visual notes from a workshop on innovation in D.C. Read this article about the power of the doodle.

This is a great intro to using iPads to create. Find my template, photos, and student examples here.

Find examples resources and a tutorial at this link.

Find our finished work and students working here.

Learn how to create interactive art with your iPad with this post (includes tutorial).

Three ways to do this

1. Green Screen App

2. Custom Photo Booth FX

3. Layered photos in SketchbookX

View my tutorial and templates for making a Cat-in-the-hat bookmark for March's Read Across America and Dr. Seuss' Birthday here. See also how we celebrated via our local PBS station here.

Students jigsaw together a class movie about their learning using the Green Screen app and a keynote slide graphic design, photo, artwork, or animation. See this example.

Students wrote coordinates and found them on our tile wall. See photos of our wall and how you can make one too here.

See this post and tutorial to learn how students can imitate the Downton Abbey logo with their own b/w line art.

See this post with many choices and original examples for how students can make memes on iPads.

See this post where students used a free build a snowman app while basking in the glow of a youtube fireplace video.

1st grader all contributed a piece of art and their voice to an interactive eBook. Learn how to download and view it on your iPad here. Update: Check out this bundled resource

See this post that shows how 2nd grade students created semi-transparent animated ghosts over a digital image of their artwork.

Students used the tutorial provided by SCRATCH to play with code to animate and add audio to artwork during the Hour of Code observance. See our video and resources here.

See this post to find my google hangout tutorial

where I go through the steps of creating a portrait in sketchbook X on the iPad starting with this template. Student examples here. UPDATE: Download my TpT handout for extra help in setting up this lesson in Brushes Redux

Download this eBook for your iPad. It links to 18 of our favorite Fugleflicks. Great tool for inspire young movie-makers or giving students a chance to independently explore and learn in your classroom. View this newsletter to see all the ways this book can be used with students.

Find the tutorial for how to make this project on this post.

View the mixed media version of this lesson here.

View the Appalachians on my motorcycle ride here.

View this video to teach the concept of Monochromatic

Students contribute their art to a a collaborative monster drawing using a template as a guideline. See this post for examples and resources.

See also this physical version using cardboard boxes with a digital extension where students replicate the boxes using perspective in the superimpose app.

Students made clay bears then used an app to add their voice/lips to their artwork so they could explain how they were made. View the video and links to resources here.

Don't have iPads? Look here at the way we did this lesson using Photo Booth and an iPevo in Keynote.

This post isn't exactly lesson specific but it includes a tutorial for creating silhouettes in the superimpose app and many art examples.

Students created a piece of surrealistic art called the impossible door, entered it with the Green Screen app by DoInk, then told the story of what happened when they opened the door. See some of the clips here. Here are some more ideas for using this app.

Use this link to find photos, resources, and a lesson plan you can download from TPT guiding you through all the steps needed to make these clay bears by dividing clay in various way. View other clay lessons here.

Students can create informational audioboos, print the automatically generated QR code, and create interactive exhibits anywhere. See this post for more details.

Students can use the DoInk animation app and Green Screen app to combine live video with drawn animation. See this post for more details. Here are more ideas for this app.

Here are the google slides and iPad resources

Use this link to find my post with directions for making this project. Take a look at these Newsweek designs using our Light up Robots and Phonto for text.

See this idea for archiving a story online, attaching an image, and embedding it into your website. My students loved this story that went along with our spooky landscapes so much that they went home and found the post to listen over and over again.

Student created a commercial for my art program. This little video quickly shares with students and parents in an entertaining way about the benefits of our online digital art gallery. See this post to watch the video and more.

See this post to view my tutorial for how to make this iPad lesson. See student examples here.

See my original post on this lesson here.

Use this link to see my tutorial for how to make a two farm animation on the iPad. This method is a fun and free way to make animated gifs for your website or ppt presentations. See these bobblehead caricatures on my old website.

Use this link to watch my tutorial and see the steps needed to create a landscape in SketchbookX. See this gallery of 1st grade student work. See this gallery of 3rd grade student work.

See this post to learn the steps for creating a collaborative photo collage on the iPad.

See this post to learn a couple ways to enter Chicago's Crown fountain. View student examples here. See this post to try entering it with The Green Screen App by DoInk.

Use this post for an updated photo template.

See how to make this digital animation on the iPad here.

Use this godzilla educational movie to introduce concepts.

See my example and tutorial for creating a piece of art that moves across another piece of art in a simple animation here.

Use this link to find my post with examples, instructions, handouts, resources, and a lesson plan for making simple animations with your youngest students. Update: see this bundled resource.

Use this link to see my resources, tutorial, and examples for creating this digital iPad piece using Wooden Doll 3D app and sketchbookX.

Use this link to see my examples, template, and ideas for how students can manipulate space digitally.

Use this link to see my resources, template, lesson plan, and examples for making a superhero emblem design inspired by the Man of Steel. Do this lesson completely on the iPad by using Superimpose app to remove the green screen. See this tutorial for help.

Students each contributed one audioboo message about how we use technology in art class (info they collected for the their Skype presentation with Canada). Use this post to see the presentation organized into a board and embedded on my blog so it flows as one audio presentation. Learn more about Audioboo from my tutorial.

See this link to see my animated video and how it was made in the Explain Everything app. I drew the scene, characters, and props then animated them while telling my story. Very much like puppet pals. See this example.

Take a look here at how we used Shrinky Dinks in art class and projected the melting step with the iPevo camera. Use this link to learn about the science behind this product.

Use this link to download and customize the interactive ppt into a fun review game on a screen or an interactive whiteboard. If you use my game be sure to reference the video links (at bottom of post) that serve as great clues for answers.

Students created Laurel Birch Styled cats both physically and digitally. See this post. View their paintings (physical art) here. View their digital paintings here. See this art featured in a national magazine here.

This animated movie was created with animated still images using Keynote on a desktop. See the post. Learn more about the process from my tutorial here.

After 6 years in elementary school student burn their files to a keepsake CD and review their growth and learning in art.

View this post. See this video about the day. View our informercial about digital portfolios here.

Use this link to see how student animated their art in a fifth grade flying video inspired by the book Tar Beach. View also this tutorial for animating in Keynote.

Normally you can't wear a clay mask, but with the magic of digital devices students could pose hands free as a clay mask monster. See this post. HINT: Do this project on the iPad using superimpose app. This tutorial will help.

See this post to learn how students created a shadow of a dinosaur into a projected piece of art. See our Fugleflick Show of Hands, made completely with shadow art here.

Students created a surrealism themed movie that challenges the view to consider that different is good.

View this post to see the video, behind the scenes, & more. See if you can identify all the art featured in the movie with this quiz.

See this post to learn how you can use the Drawing with Karl app to paint with shapes to imitate a paper collage experience like this one.

Use this link to learn how to turn any image into pop art on a mac using Automator (already on your machine). Hint: on the iPad use Crazy Photo Booth (free). See gallery here.

Design a logo while learning how vector drawing programs work on the iPad using Inkpad app. See my post for examples.

Create a custom Photo Booth effect and allow the students to tell stories, share history facts, or give options. See this example. Learn how to do this on your Mac here.

This downloadable ppt and tutorial shows you how to lead your students through a sculpture project (use Model Magic) beginning with one lump of clay. See this post.

Student used this Photo Booth FX to snap a picture that was printed out and used to help make physical artwork of themselves reading their favorite Dr. Seuss book while dressed as the cat in the hat. See this post to download my FX.

Students watched a Brainpop video about snowflakes then created their own digitally on iPads. Use this link to find resources, videos, and student examples. Don't have iPads? try it this way with an interactive website.

Use this digital lesson for instruction while student create physically. This post also contains links to videos and resources for art and history related topics.

View: Observational Drawing

View: Opaque Man-vs-Transparent Man

See this post to learn how I made the ship sail.

Try this digital collage project with your youngest learners to help them think about objects differently. See this post full of resources to teach this lesson. See students at work and what they created here. Use this commercial to introduce the concept.

Take a fun drawing break with this "How to draw" sheet, video, and fun musical app based on the Simon's Cat cartoon. Try playing this Memory Game based on Simon's Cat images that I put together.

Look at this mix of physical and digital introductory art lesson for kindergartners on this post with a video tutorial and clip from the movie, Daddy Daycare. Show them this Fugleflick first, I AM ART.

At the end of a session working on our clay mask sculptures, we cleaned up and worked collaboratively on a digital clay mask. View this post for a tutorial and picts of students working.

One day I decided to test iMotionHD (free iPhone/iPad app) time lapse function on a tripod in the back of the art room during class. See this post. I complied and played it back before the kids left so they could see how hard they work. This footage was a great clip to add to our all-school video, Common Core Crazy.

Students used some innovative techniques to put together this amazing fugleflick about Visual Literacy. This is my favorite behind the scenes video because of how students are collaborating. The cut version won a NextVista.org contest.

Students collaboratively transformed a mistake into something so brilliant they wanted to celebrate with this musical tribute: Watch the theme song/video here.

Hear the story of Shark Dog here. Get the Shark Dog gear here. See this pop art post for more information.

This simple idea of drawing over a photo might be a great way to share creativity from class to class or school to school. See my post.

Idea: cloud images can be tweeted from all over the world, kids could paint what they see, and reTweet to all. Here is one I did randomly from a pict in my twitter feed.

Update: New technique using Keynote. See tutorial and lots of cloud photos to choose from here.

To encourage my students to look closely at the Old Guitarist before they recreated it as a paper sculpture, I turned it into an interactive whiteboard puzzle. See post with tutorial, pics, and the file for you to download. You can also download the art lesson here.

Solve some problems, set expectations, and visually communicate to your students through videos. Here is a post featuring some of these fugleflicks including the huge time saver, noise avoider, entertaining vid, The Pencil Exchange. Go directly to The Pencil Exchange and Push up Your Sleeves.

(portrait, circuit, electricity, design)

See this post.

This blog post shows you how you can use Google Maps street view, historic photos from your community, and layer them together in the Superimpose app on your iPad.

This quick tutorial shows you how to use the instant alpha tool to add outlines that hug the contour of your images to create a cool graphic effect using Keynote (both iPad and desktop versions).

This post leads you through how to create a TIME magazine cover with my templates and tutorial.

View this post to see examples and a keystroke video of students' contour line portraits made from their photos on the iPad. See kids at work here.

I set up some of our Fugleflicks for Karaoke on my wiki. Here is REPEAT (includes a video of 1st graders singing). Elementary Musical, Allow us to Illustrate, Art Room Anthem, and 9 others here.

This step by step project with resources, tutorials, and examples helps you reveal your secret superhero using Keynote animation and iMovie.

View this time-lapse of students participating in a digital collaboration using an interactive whiteboard in Mimio studio to prepare for individual radial designs.

2nd graders were asked to turn garbage bags, a box fan, and tape into an inflatable spooky ghost. See this post for the video and resources.

Watch this super short video of students making their clay bunnies boogie. They created this with still images. (Use iPad for quicker results)

This tutorial shows you how to reproduce the look of the 60 minutes video FX using apple software. See also the Mac World article. See final video: Careers in Art.

I set up my room in centers and had students explore the art work of Pablo Picasso using multiple intelligences. Take a look at my write up here. See my video here. Here is a link to three of my Picasso lessons on TpT.

1st graders painted a Mo Willem's styled pigeon based on "Don't let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" and created a spoof based on class rules. See this post for lesson tutorials on desktop and iPad and resources. See gallery of images.

I wrote up this post showing my Nag-O-Matic, T-Shirt man with art songs, Mrs. Fugleclone for behavior, and more.

I set up a few compare-a-twist games for students to compare artists' work like Matisse vs Picasso and distinguish between primary and secondary colors. View my post for resources and a tutorial.

Use this powerpoint on my TPT site to lead your students step by step through a lesson that will turn their printed photo into a cartoon cell styled painting.

View my post with iPad tutorial for creating an animated bobblehead, download my resources, and access my ppt of how to create a caricature.

View this page of student animated bobblehead gifs.

See this post with 6 ideas for creating a LIFE Magazine cover design from student art, photo, via photoshlopping, drawn animation, or using green screen effects. (Includes my templates.)

See this post with ideas and templates for recreating the Giving Tree story and book cover.

See this post for an art lesson idea inspired by The Giving Tree as well as video reading of the book and song.

This post leads to the animated introduction of my original story, The Snow Flurry Fairy, demonstrating an animation using keynote with voice narration and music.

Students layered their photo, a bubble, and text into my empty keynote book cover template to celebrate Bubble Gum day and our author visit. See post here for templates and lesson extension ideas.

In this collaborative video students illustrated idioms then used voice narration, music, and their caricatures to explain the real meaning of the figurative language. See this thinglink-an easy way to make this a guessing game.

Students created a commercial to "sell" our art program to the school community filled with evidence of why art is important.

Students can use the green screen app on the iPad to create a retro-styled commercial message. See my post for directions and resources.

Students create a word cloud display and layer themselves over it in a graphic design. See my post to learn how to create these on laptop and iPad.

See this post with three ideas for creating a corn flakes box and use my template to try it yourself. Have students explore anything from marketing to life accomplishments.

This is an animation extension of the iExpress lesson (#100 above) using the Keynote app animation tools. View this post for examples and resources.

This app smash gives students a chance to reflect on their growth while creating a metaphorical animation with audio or writing. Learn more here.

Students can use the Create Your Own Superhero online app (doesn't work on mobile devices) to re-imagine themselves as superheroes. Follow this up with writing a hero's story or animating (like in lesson #108).

This lesson is designed for young learners to explore monochromatic painting while learning about the parts of a fish. See my post with student examples, literacy resources, and a link to download the step-by-step powerpoint. This post will help you guide your students through a Make it Move it lesson where the fish swims.

This lesson takes students through three free apps to create a high contrast contour line drawing in the style of a notan.

This powerpoint lesson on TpT takes students step-by-step through the creation of a monochromatic landscape inspired by the Appalachian Mountains. See also the Digital Version of this lesson.

This lesson challenges students to draw a portrait twice to create rotationally symmetrical playing cards. View the post for resources, examples, and to see the animation lesson extension.

This lesson challenges students to think in reverse as well as offer an opportunity for creative expression. Find all the resources and examples here.

This monster paper collage is based on the book, Go Away Big Green Monster. Learn about how it teaches math, art, and see its technology extensions for instruction and art production here.

Have your whole class contribute to one or more frames of an animated gif with very little technology needed. Find out how here.

Students learn to draw dance poses by manipulating a 3D object (stuffed giraffes), photographing, and drawing/painting over the image. Explore this technique in this Dance Giraffe post.

Watch the Fugleflick movie, I AM ART and take the quiz here. Then think of how you can do something like this with your students.

When Draw Something first came out I saved my drawings and made an offline version to play with my students. You can download the PPT of my drawings here to practice visual literacy as a game.

Students wrap up their school year by reflecting on their art creation, process, what they learned, and how they'll improved. These thoughts are captured in video for their digital portfolios. See post.

See this post to see how a student artist led the class through an origami lesson with the document camera. See this post for more origami resources.

See this post with examples and a tutorial for creating these animated anagrams on the iPad using the DoInk app.

See this post with examples and a tutorial for creating an individual rotoscope animation over video on the iPad using DoInk Animation App. See also lesson extension for Green Screen app.

See this post with examples and tutorial of how to combine a line drawing with a photo to create an image that seems to emerge from the paper. Great for bringing your stories and art to life.

View this post to see how students can create a digital micrography portrait on iPads.

Explore the possibilities using blend mode in iPad apps to create photographic effects that can bring the background forward in layered photos. Create visuals complement introspective writing, scientific concepts, or design.

See my post with examples and tips for creating animated robots using DoInk animation app on iPads.

View this post to learn how to turn a vintage illustration into a moving picture using three different approaches on the iPad.

View this post to see ideas for how student could make art then make it move through animation techniques.

View this post to download the resources needed to have students create a Dr. Seuss inspired creature for their zoo and put it on a book cover.

View this post to learn how to do this concept rich lesson.

View this post with examples, instructions, and a tutorial to make this appsmash using sketchbook express, wordfoto app, and superimpose.

This blog post has tutorials that will help you get started with animating in DoInk Animation App.

View this post for resources and examples that will inspire a Rube Goldberg Animation. To learn about animation view this post.

View this post to learn how to use the Green Screen app to create dancing silhouettes like the old iTunes ads and ideas for how to use this FX for storytelling.

Give students a chance to use graphic design techniques to "sell" their ideas as a candidate during an election. See this post for examples and resources.

(figure drawing, movement, positive/negative space, complementary colors, color balance, line pattern)

See this post that includes a template and step by step directions to make a physical painting. It also includes a digital extension where students use the template for stop motion animation. See also idea #68 for completely digital results.

See two ideas for using the Quiver Dot Day coloring page and app to explore art concepts on this post. Or see more details about the kindergarten color wheel idea here.

View this post to find a resources including an interactive whiteboard game, eBook, and more to encourage 1st graders to creatively draw a wild thing based on the book by Maurice Sendak.

Use this link to find directions, examples, and an article about how we collaboratively created a lego wall full of rotationally symmetrical designs.

Make your results ROTATE with animation. View this post.

Students can haunt the classroom (a page from a book, painting, or any photo they take) using DoInk animation app while learning about transparency. View my post.

Students created a digital painting of their action pose to prepare for their physical painting. See my post for the collaborative gif and steps for creation.

View this post to see examples and resources for how students can transform their hand into a creature and give it a personality and voice digitally.

Take a look at this post with ideas for how to create an animated glow that interacts with an image from underneath a physical drawing.

Students can tell the story of their artwork while viewers watch the art making in a process video created in the drawing app. See my examples in this post.

See this post where 3rd graders learn to draw, paint, collage, and ultimately animate themselves riding a carousel horse.

Download the lesson.

See my post about integrating music and art with aliens playing instruments.

See my post about integrating beatbox music with animated aliens.

Find out how to use progression or replacement stop-motion animation technique to show change, movement, or growth, in a magical way with this post.

Kindergarteners did a simple animation combined with a clip live footage in the green screen app where they shared how to be kind. See this post.

See this movie and this post to learn how to use my Keith Haring inspired stencil to create a fun and fast stop motion creativity challenge.

Students make their bedroom using principals of perspective then enter their artwork using drama skills and the magic of green screen. See my post.

View this post to learn how your students can dance with their shadows using the Green Screen app by DoInk.

Students used the point of view of their artwork on display in the hallways to create this clever story mixed with GS FXs, animation, and live video, "Don't Crush my Dreams". View post here.

This challenge asks students to collaboratively create an automated abstract art-making machine (an artbot). See my post.

See this post and watch the finished stop motion animation using paper cut and animated.

See this post to learn how to turn a green screen video into a layered silhouette that interacts with an image (or video) to help students tell as story.

See this post to learn how to combine science vocabulary with creative drawing, digital coloring, and animation with young artists.

See this post for resources and examples for making a nesting doll drawing and animation that gives students a chance to work with size, overlap, and an infinite loop animation.

See this post to find out how students can use the green screen app by Do Ink to make a resource for observational drawing then digitalize it again to color on the iPad and print as a bookmark.

See this post to learn about the flipbookit that helps you make a retro-style mutoscope from your digital animation.

Have students repurpose an old box into a mutoscope viewer with a motor to flip the flipbook inside. See my post for more details (look at extension idea at bottom).

Customize a hologram video, make a pyramid template from a transparency, and haunt your classroom. View my post for template and tutorial.

Have your students contribute a couple seconds to a collaborative dance movie. See my post to find out how.

This challenge isn't new or even mine, but I wanted to share our results and encourage you to give this a try.

See my post to learn how students can design their own stand up cardboard robot that lights up. Then animate it or make a graphic to describe its wonders.

Students turned their Wild Thing paintings (see project #171) into bookmarks using my lesson and template. View the post for all the information and resources.

Take a look at my post to find out how you can draw something then make it move digitally.

This post will guide students through the steps of using the Do Ink Animation App to make themselves into a superhero or sprite that can be used for animating over a background or for a custom hologram (see #195).

See my post for resources, template, directions, and ideas for how to transform a piece of cardboard into a whirligig that moves with stop motion animation.

Use this post to have students make an individual rotoscope animation that they can loop or layer.

View this video for ideas to make Animated Sketchnotes.

Students can combine art history, digital video effects, and creative writing as they haunt a masterpiece. See this post.

Use this post to learn how to use free apps to create a simple animated GIF from your own art.

Use my post called Running Like Scooby-Doo would Do to make a running animation where the background loops and the character remains in the center of the frame. See tutorial here.

Use my post to see how you can create a looping cloud-filled sky animation to make your superhero character appear to fly like Mighty Mouse might.

Use my post to learn how to make a patterned carpet that you can magically fly over the wonders of the world like Aladdin. This post show two approaches: Digital drawing over a digital animation and a paper cut stop motion animation.

Download my loaded keynote file found in my post to practice over 15 ways to creatively use Keynote on a Mac.

See this post full of resources for creating a collaborative exquisite corpse game from cardboard boxes and reproducing it digitally with perspective. See #50 for a different take on this lesson.

See this post full of ideas for making art, technology, and character counts connections with the story, A Nest for Celeste by Henry Cole.

See my post to try this Harry Potter styled effect to create your own moving postcard with the Green Screen app by Do Ink.

See my post to learn how to make Art Matter Memes with your students.

See my post for creative ways to explore relative size.

See my post for ways to connect with the book A Nest for Celeste by shrinking yourself to a mouse's point of view.

Use the program Scratch to program your series of artwork in a running sequence. See the post for examples.

Create a moving message that really moves using this animation technique found in my post.

In this post, students collaborate to make a lip sync video where they draw over their own video saying a word or phrase that combines to recite a piece of literature.

Make a character from your favorite book jump off the pages with the magic of animation. View this post to learn how.

Students draw a fishbowl in a patterned interior space inspired by Henri Matisse then animate a fish in the bowl.

Learn how students can collaboratively create an animated dance party here inspired by the Peanuts characters.

Students can put themselves in a snow globe as they learn about layers, green screen, and transparency. See my post for a tutorial and resources.

Here is how I used the effect for a first grade snowman snow globe lesson.

Students can create the illusion that their animation is jumping from one iPad to the next using the DoInk Animation app. See my post to learn how and practice with my Do Ink data file.

Students can create the illusion that they are jumping or spinning magically from the foreground into a painting. View this post to learn more.

Students collaboratively created this short video to encourage the viewer to switch from a fixed mindset to growth. See my post to view and learn some of their video FX tricks.

See my post to learn to make a penguin using one lump of clay and simple division. Then make it move through stop-motion animation.

Download the lesson.

Here is a new twist on animating a physical piece of art. View my post for examples and a tutorial that will help you lift a figure off the paper and start to dance.

Download the green screen lesson

View my post to find out how to make this bubbling scientific STEAM project.

Re-create the silhouette blend videos first seen on Electric Company explained in this post.

Kindergarteners used Chatterpix app to speak through a digital version of their self-portrait painting to collaboratively recite a poem about learning in art class. See this post.

Put your students' animations in a flipbookit.com to share digital art in a physical format. See this post.

Challenge your students to harness the magic of stop-motion animation to create an illusion. See this post for examples of progression animations and magical videos.

When my students finished their Kindness Campaign (project #217) we purchased an iPad kiosk on display to share their work with the school community. View the post to learn how.

View this post to learn how to make your animated character have an animated shadow.

Students can pretend that they are posing for a book cover photo shoot using this lesson and book templates.

See this post to learn how to use the Keynote app to create beautiful portraits.

View this post and download the lesson guide to make a robot physically then animate it digitally.

Make a portrait then make it move by modifying the image in Photoshop Fix app on the iPad. See my post.

Learn to use Do Ink animation app with this post to add eyes and mouths over anything to help tell your stories.

See this post where students create artistic book reports featuring the characters that emerged from the stories they read.

See this post for how to play this color all-class active learning game about color.

Inspire your students to write songs that embed curricular content with our Fugleflick Karaoke page (or just sing along and learn about art.)

See an idea for creating an interactive piece of art using littlebits, cardboard, and creativity.

Learn how students can practice visual literacy and parts of speech through this fun guessing and drawing game.

Updated: I Packaged up the lesson with printable cubes all ready to play. Learn more here. Download now

Packaged lesson with tutorials, template, media & steps

Students fly on their own paper airplane as the boy in the story, I'm Here, as they learn about friendship, animation, and green screen effects. Learn more from my post.

This is a revamp of lesson #154. Learn in this post how students can paint an op art piece of art inspired by the color wheel then fall into it with Do Ink animation app.

Students read WishTree by Katherine Applegate and made a wish under their own tree. Find out how from this post.

Learn about this simple way to make blinking animated portraits using keynote app and the ezgif.com website.

Transform shapes into forms to make a steamy cup of hot chocolate on a snowy day using both physical and digital methods. View the post here.

Inspire your students with the community of Whoville from Dr. Seuss' story of How the Grinch Stole Christmas as they collaboratively share files to make one animation collaboration. View this blog post.

Find out how students can use mini canvases to build a collaborative value painting of people who have added value to our world with this post.

Students make a running alien over a constructed landscape habitat while considering color, style, composition, and the illusion of depth. Learn more here.

Students created robot paintings, then used a simple animation technique with free apps to make it come alive.

They can also be viewed in AR with HP reveal. Learn more.

See my emotional robots lesson for similar technique.

Find out how to make art, make art move with animation, then make the animation appear with augmented reality in this post.

See this post to learn how to draw a portrait and color it using the colorscape app.

What if life had an undo button. Students made this magical movie where they can undo your mistakes in the artroom.

Grab my file from this post so you and your students can Lorax-ify themselves as they celebrate Dr. Seuss' story of the Lorax.

Learn how to make one-point perspective cityscapes that glow under black lights with this post.

See my tweet exploring a way to mount a black light novelty toy into a public display.

Use this post to help students learn how to draw expressions on paper and animate a symbol that glows through from the iPad.

See this post to learn how to teach students to create a portrait that they speak through as they contribute to a class recitation of a poem.

Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss

Fans by Douglas Florian

Invitation by Shel Silverstein

See this post to learn how you can use the Green Screen app by Do Ink to layer and isolate your lips to speak through your artwork.

Create a time lapse of a drawing to share the creation process with viewers. See my post for examples.

Make yourself into a superhero and fly over your city scene (see #258) with Do Ink animation app and Brushes Redux.

See the post to learn more.

See this post to learn how we turned our art room into a factory (like Warhol did) to mass produce pop art in the image of Marilyn Monroe.

See this post explaining how to use Keynote to make animations that explain or digitally illustrate ideas using builds & actions.

See this twitter thread full of ideas to make art that is both physical and digital with the ARMakr app and Do Ink Drawing app.

Download and print this book of vintage illustrations. Have students discuss/predict the story then scan the art to see it move.

Learn here how to make your business card come to life with augmented reality using a green screen video overlay over art.

Make your books come to life with by animated the cover designs and triggering the animation using eyejack app. See this post for ideas and codes.

Inspire your students to make giraffes that dance under UV painted stars they glow with blacklights. See my post.

Use augmented reality to have teacher examples and art prints explain or demonstrate art concepts to others. See my post.

Experience a haunted art room as these famous pieces come to life with Augmented Reality in kinda spooky ways.

This isn't my idea, but you can explore this idea on my blog with links to resources and our examples.

Students learn about feelings, colors, and movement in this Color Monster inspired lesson. Learn more here.

Students remove the background of their giraffe paintings (see #270) and move them digitally to enhance their dance moves. See their class movie with 5 different dance moves https://vimeo.com/377374542

See how students recreated the Mona Lisa collaboratively using legos in this post.

Celebrate a Grinch Fest with a photo booth that puts students on the cover of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. See this post for many other cool resources.

Students fly with their snowman like in the story by Raymond Briggs. See my post for all the steps and resources.

Students present their kindness messages with augmented reality as they appear to come to life like the moving paintings in the Harry Potter stories. Learn more. See the previous version of this lesson (#217) made with a still image photo.

Learn more here.

Download the lesson here.

View ours here.

Students responded with this seesaw lesson.

Learn how to make these here

They responded with this seesaw lesson.

See the post for tutorials and resources

Download the kit here.

See my blog post with directions, tutorials, examples, and a set of posters for your classroom.

Download the lesson and posters here.

Download the lesson here.

Move it with stop-motion animation.

Animate it with the Do Ink apps.

Learn more here.

Download the lesson here.

Draw it frame by frame.

Flipbookit

Learn more here.

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This guessing game came from my DrawSomething days in 2012. I saved my drawings and reversed it.

Students guess the word I'm drawing using based on the art and how many letters are in the word. They practice their visual literacy and spelling as they play.

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Help your robot express their feelings with this step by step animation mini course designed around the iPad app by Do Ink. Connect this lesson to your SEL program and my book, PETER O'METER about a robot who becomes emotional when his buttons are pushed.

(FREE) Print, color, and scan the 3D augmented reality coloring page (powered by Quivervision) to interact with PETER O'METER, an eMotion Bot who expresses different emotion when his buttons are pushed.

(free) Introduce stop motion animation to your students with this kit and animation guide. Try adding sound and animated effects using Canva. (Great for Chromebook users). Download it from the PETER O'METER resource page.