My Stop Go Animation

W.A.L.T: create a stop go animation using household resources.

Yesterday I decided that it would be fun to make a stop go animation for my inquiry. So I got out my I pad, downloaded the stopmotion app, then gathered all the props that I was going to use. I decided that for my stopmotion I was going to use colouring pencils (the colours of the rainbow), my pencil case and a sheet of white A4 paper. Once the app had downloaded onto my I pad, I opened it and started a new project. After that I placed the piece of A4 paper on the floor so that it would act as a background, then I positioned my I pad so that the camera could only see the paper. I took my first photo. It was just of the paper so that it set the scene, then I slowly moved the pencils into the frame taking a photo each time I moved them. I did this throughout the whole animation until I had finished it. Once I had, I uploaded it into this blog post.

I really enjoyed using stopmotion to create this animation, I'll definitely be making some more later this month. I think I'll do a classic one with Lego and I'll ask my brother if he wants to help me create it. I recommend that you try out the stopmotion app, as it's completely free (unless you buy premium), is super fun and easy to use, and only takes about ten minutes to make.

What's your opinion on my animation and do you have any suggestions for something I could animate next?

How To Make Flower Banners

Flower Press Banner

During term 2 I have been making flower banners. Here is a list of the things that

I used to make them… 

• Paper, big enough to cover the fabric that you are printing the flowers onto, I used A4 printer paper

but you can use scrap paper or even newspapers.

• Flowers, I find that flowers that are more delicate or that have brighter colours print better onto the fabric.
• A hammer
• Two books, typically ones that you won’t mind being damaged, I used my math books.
• A needle and thread, this is to sew the trims of the banners and the top fold that allows string to be

pulled through ultimately creating the banner.

• String, to hang the banners on.
• A sewing machine (optional)

How you make them… 
First you want to measure out how big you want your fabric strips to be, I made mine about 30cm by 20 cm.

Secondly, find a hard surface to hammer the flowers into the fabric, it should be outside as to minimilize
the mess but don’t use a table as you be banging the hammer on top of it. Once you’ve found a hard
surface, lay one of your books on top of it then place your strip of fabric on top of that. Choose what
flowers you're going to use and lay them down on the fabric. You can do this randomly, or put them all in
specific positions. You can even take off the petals or leaves from the flowers and use them as well. After
you’ve placed down your flowers, put the paper on top of it so that it covers all parts of the fabric are
ontop of the flowers. Finally put your second book on top of it. Grab your hammer, and starting from the top of
the book, hammer on top of the book repeatedly slowly going back and forth until you reach the bottom.
Make sure that you hit the hammer hard, so that all the flower juices stain the fabric. This should take about
2 minutes, so it’s best to set a timer. Once you're done hammering, carefully take off the book on top and
lift the paper off the fabric. The juices should have stained the fabric, if they haven’t it will be because the
flowers you chose don’t have enough juice and aren’t as fragile. The way to fix this is to hammer it again
for another minute. Once the paper is off, remove the flowers and get to work on sewing the trims. It’s not
very complicated to do, just fold over 1-2cm of the fabric and then sew a back stitch on the edge of the
fold, which is just the basic stitch. If you want to go the extra mile you can also trim the banner with a zig
zag stitch, but I recommend that you use a sewing machine for this one. Do that on all the sides of the
fabric except the top. When that is finished fold the top over, so that 4cm of it is on the back of the banner.
Stitch the bottom of the fold using the back stitch again so that it forms a hole in which you can put the
string through. Now you're finished! You can make as many of these as you want and put the banner on
your bedroom wall or another place into your house that is in some need of decoration. Another idea is to
make the banner into a word, e.g make five banners, on the first one write S one the second M, third I,
forth L and fifth E. Which spells out smile.

I really enjoyed making these quirky little banners which I hung up in my bedroom above my bed. I
think that it added an extra splash of brightness to my bedroom, and I hope it does the same to yours.

What flowers do you recommend that I try for my next banner and what do you think I could improve on with the one that I made?

My FlipaClip Bubble Popping GIF

For around the last two weeks I have been working on this GIF as a project for inquiry. I made it using an animation platform called FlipaClip. First you open a new project, then decide whether you want to make a movie, a GIF, or basically anything that uses moving animation. I decided to make a GIF and I did mine of bubbles popping and reappearing. I made this short GIF with 25 different slides, on each one I changed the movement and size. And even though it seems short it took quite a while to make, even though I didn’t work on it nonstop. Next you draw the base of your animation on the screen using your finger, then add another slide and - since it leaves an indentation of the drawing from the previous slide on it - you can trace over it or draw something completely different, it’s up to you because after all it’s your animation. Finally keep adding new slides until your animation is complete, once it is click publish and either make it a GIF so it plays over and over again or publish it as a video. It gives you the option to share it and you can definitely do so if you want but I just saved the finished product to my photos.

I think that it turned out pretty good in the end, so I’ll probably make another one sometime soon. If you want to make one too, make sure to download the app FlipaClip on a mobile device so you can make amazing animations as well!

What do you think about my GIF, and what do you think I could have done better with it?

1st Drawing Of My 30 Day Drawing Challenge

W.A.L.T Draw your favourite animal.

This week I started doing a drawing challenge. It's a challenge that goes on for 30 days and each day during that period, I have to do a drawing following the rules of the day. On the first day the rules were to draw your favourite animal, so I drew a snow leopard which is my favourite. I made it's chest and belly white and soft, then decorated the rest of it with leopard print, and yes it is a male, but if you want to draw one based on this drawing but as a girl you can easily modify the drawing by adding eyelashes or changing other features. You can also do yours in many different poses and with lots of different facial expressions. If you want to start doing the same drawing challenge that I am, then I pasted a photo below of it.

So far I been really enjoying this challenge and a lot of decent art has come out of it. I think that it's much easier to have prompts that help me to decide what I'm going to draw, and these prompts are the best of the best. Tell me what you think about my drawing and the prompts on the challenge, and if you decide to do it as well, then make sure to post your drawings down in the comments.

What do you think I could have done better with my drawing?

How To Make Slime

Slime

Ingredients:

• PVA Glue
• Shaving Cream
• Borax (crystals or powder)
• Food colouring/gel
• 1 cup of boiling Water
• Bowls and spoons
• A teaspoon

Method:

• Pour a cup of PVA glue into a bowl.
• Add a cup of shaving cream to the glue and mix until fully combined.
• Now's the time to add the food colouring or gel, get creative, mix the colours together or keep the plain you can also add a little glitter to make it sparkle.
• Just make sure you don’t add too much food colouring or gel otherwise the colour will stain your hands when you play with the slime.
• Once the mixture is combined, boil your water. You can do this in a kettle but if you don’t have one of these you can boil the water in a saucepan.
• Measure out 1 cup of the boiling water, and a teaspoon of borax to it, mix well until no traces of the borax are left, be careful not to splash the water and borax on your skin while mixing.
• After that keep adding the borax and water liquid (one teaspoon at a time) until your slime groups together but is still sticky.
• Scoop out the slime and start stretching it once it’s only a little bit sticky, add another teaspoon of the liquid then play with it again for a while until it isn’t sticky anymore.
• Once you're done playing with your slime, put it straight back into the container you’re keeping it in, and wash your hands with soap and hot water.

CAUTION:

• DON’T get the slime on your clothes or any fabric surface.
• Slime is NOT an edible material, DO NOT EAT, it contains borax which is a poisonous substance when eaten.
• To wash off clothes, put the clothing under a hot running tap and rub with your finger until all traces are gone.

Warrior Cat Profiles

For my second art project, I decided to make up warrior cats and give them profiles, so that's what I did. First I lined out the boxes that I was going to draw my cats in. Then I decided a name for them based on what they looked like and their personality. After I had decided what position the cats were going to be in, I drew them and coloured them in here are the ones that I did. Then I decided what clan they were going to be in, I had made up four clans, CloudClan, StormClan, IceClan and SunClan. I made up symbols for each clan based on the real ones from the books. Then I wrote the information about them beside the picture. The headlines I decided to include in that was:

• Their name
• Their age (in moons and years)
• Their gender (tom or she-cat)
• Their status in the clan
• What clan they were in
• If they had an apprentice and if they did who they were
• Their litter mates
• Their mate and if they had one
• Their parents
• What they looked like and any distinctive features that might make them unique
• Then I also did their personality

Though keep in mind that it's much much easier to make your profiles once you have read the book, but it won't we a waste of time, the books are REALLY GOOD!☺️☻
Tell me what you think about my profiles in the comments.

My Powtoon On The First Book In My FAVOURITE Book Series

For my reading I had to make a powtoon on a book that I had recently read, and since I had just started reading my favourite book series again, I thought it was a fun idea. Powtoon is a website where you can make awesome animated videos with text, images, videos and lots more, you should really check it out if you don't know what it is already. Either way, here's the link to my powtoon -> Into The Wild Powtoon

I added lots of special effects, different types of fonts and images that related to the topic and more stuff like that. And I think I did a pretty good job. Check it out for yourself, write your feedback in the comments, so that I know how I can improve my work next time I make one, which will probably be soon. Overall I think the my powtoon turned out great and that it really expresses my love for the series, watch till the end to see what I put on the last two slides. Thanks for reading this post, and hopefully you will try out powtoon, AND the warrior series, for which Into The Wild is the first book. What do you think I could have done better with my powtoon?