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Claymation Art Project: Elementary, Middle School Art
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Get everything you need to teach claymation in your upper elementary or middle school art classes with this lesson pack. Claymation is easier than you may realize! Teach a claymation art project even with zero experience.
Introduce your elementary art or middle school art students to the art of stop motion animation with this fun, easy stop motion animation, claymation art project. Designed for 5th-grade and older art students, teach your students about the process of creating through a claymation movie that needs almost no prep.
This stop motion animation, claymation art project, is the perfect way to introduce the art of animation and filmmaking. It's easier than you think to bring technology and digital art into your classroom. Learn alongside your students with this stop-motion animation lesson pack. All you need is Play-Doh and a smartphone or tablet to bring your clay sculpture to life.
All you need for this project is an iPad or smartphone. Students work in small groups to develop a storyboard and a story that shows a progression. Together, they create a storyboard and clay sculpture using Play-Doh, polymer clay, or similar before putting their stop motion animation together in 4-5 classes.
This elementary art or middle school art lesson is easy, fun, and a perfect way to bring technology and animation into your art class.
All in all this claymation art project pack includes:
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Lesson plan (big idea, objectives, US national standards, instructions, and more, 10 pages)
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Teacher notes (2 pages)
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Quick reference for creating and editing stop motion movies (3 pages)
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Storyboard and brainstorming guide (2 pages)
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3 PowerPoint presentations (36 slides)
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Project guide on using the free app, Stop Motion Studio (4 pages)
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Title and end frame art activity (2 pages)
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Claymation fun facts fast finisher activity (3 pages)
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Art project checklist (1 page)
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Rubric (for older students) 1 page
5th gradestop-motion elementary art students, through middle school art students, walk through all of the steps of creating a stop motion animation clip with this project pack. Adapt for students all the way to 9th grade
Looking for more ways to bring technology into your art class? Check out my Canva project pack here. Check out my funny faces drawing animation project here.
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