Art is My Jam

"Creepy Carrot" Animations

I just love finding FUN books to use and incoporate into art lessons. This book was the perfect inspiration for creating our Green Screen Animation Videos.  This project, I have to admit took a ton of planning, but it was so worth it. I just get a kick out of all these great little artists working so hard to create their animations. 

Here's just a few of the steps we used to make this happen:

1. Read the book "The Creepy Carrot"
2. Drew our background - the bathroom scene I thought would be funny to reinact. We used charcoal pencils and grey drawing paper to stay with the BL&WH concept from the book.
3. Created our creepy carrots using polymer clay.

4. Photographed our backgrounds on the green screen boards using the iPad camera app.
5. Painted skewers for using to animate our carrrots. Just used scraps of fabric for the curtains.
6. Video'd the curtain and carrots being animated using the camera app on the iPad.

7. Using the app DoInk Green Screen, we put together our videos.

8. Uploaded them to my private YouTube account so I could print their QR Codes for them to scan and always have their animations.

Here's just a few examples of their final projects. You can click here to see one of the animated pieces. 

Student Example

Third Grade Bulletin Board Example