Today marked the beginning of a new technological revolution for arts and crafts at the Marine Discovery Centre with iPads being used for the first time!
On a busy Friday at the MDC, the kids came in droves to see not only the variety of marine wildlife on display but also to participate in the arts and crafts activities, including regular craftwork and then our new addition to the school holiday schedule - dubbed "Clay-mation."
Children were first given some brief instructions on how to use the new technology and were then paired up to create some awesome homemade marine based cinema using just plasticine and the iPads. Essentially, all it requires is the free app loaded onto the iPads, some coloured paper and tape to make a marine background stuck to the wall, and then some imagination and some clay to use it with!
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The kids had a blast and soon we had some great videos to show for our newfound technology! |
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| Luisa, Jordan and Ted with their Clay-mation plasticine models! |
Each pair came up with their own individual motion capture story to tell and we had some great ideas including a surfing story, a beach scene, and even an Inter-tidal zone theme!
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| An Inter-tidal Zone movie in the making! |
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| Surf's Up! |
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| The kids hard at work directing their fishing video! |
All in all, the new activity proved to be a big hit with the kids and is sure to be in the future as we continue to improve on our arts and crafts department for kids these holidays! Go MDC!
Videos of the children's creative motion capture stories are available for viewing at www.youtube.com/seaclaymation
Thanks Tim for your assisstance and great report. Today not only marked the beginning of iPads and clay-mation at the MDC but it was also Tim's first day as an MDC volunteer. What a blast!
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