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Lesson Plan Activities: Flip Books

Objective:
Students will use creativity and artistic skills to produce mini-animated flip books. This skill will also help students to understand how the art of animation works.

Grade Levels/Sunshine State Standards:
4-8 (SS.A.1.3.1-2, SS.A.6.2.1-7, SS.C.6.1.2.1.1-2, SS.A.6.3.2-5, LA.D.2.2.5)

Description:
Individual/group activity.

Discuss with the students the process of animation and how it is an art form that consists of hundreds, even thousands of drawings that flash by at a rate of 12 or 24 per second. The eye creates the illusion of life by blending the drawings into a single motion.

Grades 4-8. Students will create frame by frame artwork about a scene in an Archive film clip that is of interest to them.

Students view film clips and choose one of interest. Using the film clip chosen, think of a single action that took place in the film clip. Animate the action on small pads of white paper. The first frame is the first page of the pad of paper, with added drawings on each subsequent page slightly enhancing the gesture page by page. Use pencil to experiment. Once you have your technique down, add ink or a splash of color keeping colors consistent throughout the book.

Once you have completed your artwork, use the remaining pages of the pad to write a narrative reference describing the film clip from which the animation is based upon.

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