Stop motion animation lessons

INSIDE: Keep your troops entertained with this super-simple stop motion animation tutorial for kids. Get stop motion instructions, info on a free app, and tips below! Stop motion animation is the perfect way to keep kids occupied (and creatively enamored) on a rainy, snowy, or "too hot to handle" must-be-inside day. Stop motion animation is a filming technique in...Read More

As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm doing a trade with another Art Teacher this week. My 3-5th grades are doing the same lesson. They get a SHORT introduction of what stop motion is. They watch a high tech stop motion example and a lower tech example. Here is my ever changing playlist of what shown to the students. Then I give them a really short explanation of the app Stop Motion Studio. I decided to video this instruction in case the teachers of RES would like to show their students it…

A colleague has asked me to help with some ideas for how to carry out stop motion animation that they wish to get their students involved in and this has made me pause to evaluate the options with …

These tips for stop motion are from my experience of running all of my StopMoGo workshops, events and after school clubs, as well as making my own films on a budget. On each of my blog pages you'll find the link for downloading my Top 10 Tips. Enjoy!

Try stop motion animation with your kids! Legos are the perfect toy to use for these movies.

This Stop Motion Animation project is easy to set up in minutes, and a great way to encourage STEAM concepts with children.

Kevin Parry (previously), a stop-motion animator at LAIKA, laid upon the ground and filmed himself to appear as if he were skateboarding along mountains

Have you ever wanted to try stop motion animation with kids but weren't sure where to start? These 7 tips are perfect and will get you started for the perfect film

Tips on how to make a Stop Motion video in iMovie (2017 Update) Stop Motion, also known as Stop Frame Animation, is a highly creative 2D or 3D animation technique that gives the appearance of an object moving by its own. It could be any round or flat image, character or paper cutout that uses small increments between individual pictures to move and gives the illusion of movement upon being played.