Animation Projects
Video Resources
How to make an animation using Stop Motion Studio
A 15min overview tutorial based on the King Arthur Legend, to learn how to use the Stop Motion Studio animation app
How to use Stop Motion Studio app PDF Instructions
How to make Plasticine People
Story-telling
Suggested curriculum areas: Reading all ages
Project ideas: A scene, an extract, a rewrite
Sample content: The Very Hungry Caterpillar extract
Materials: Felt characters on paper background
Life Cycle
Suggested curriculum areas: Science KS1 KS2
Project ideas: Animal and plant life cycles, the water cycle
Sample content: Frog Life Cycle
Materials: Pen on whiteboard, printing, bluetack
Geometric Shapes
Suggested curriculum areas: Art, Science KS1 KS2, RE
Project ideas: Shapes in living things, Life Cycles,
Rangoli patterns for RE
Sample content: Animals and plants
Materials: Geometric Shapes on table
Nursery Rhymes
Suggested curriculum areas: Memorising a song EYFS KS1
Project ideas: Songs, poems, fables
Sample content: Incy Wincy Spider
Materials: Playdough on card
Haiku
Suggested curriculum areas: English KS2
Project ideas: Found objects, Instruments
Sample content: A Haiku written about things around you
Materials: Luggage Tag, Stationary, Instruments
Weight
Suggested curriculum areas: Measurement EYFS KS1
Project ideas: Animals, vehicles, food
Sample content: Heavier, lighter, equal with eggs
Materials: eggs, rod, 2D triangle
Fruity Numbers
Suggested curriculum areas: Counting, Phonics EYFS
Project ideas: Counting, matching phonics and images
Sample content: Fruit, digits 1-4
Materials: Felt cut into numbers and fruit
Representing numbers
Suggested curriculum areas: Counting EYFS, Times Tables
Project ideas: Numicon, even and odd, multiples, fact families
Sample content: 1-10 buttons and rod
Materials: Lightbox, glass beads, straw
Numicon
Suggested curriculum areas: EYFS counting, Maths KS1 KS2
Project ideas: Even and odd, multiples, fact families,
proving primes
Sample content: 1, 2
Materials: Numicon, lego minifigures
Fractions
Suggested curriculum areas: Fractions, Measurement, Algebra KS1 KS2
Project ideas: Cake and tea fractions
Sample content: Pizza 1/2 1/4 1/8
Materials: Pizza and loose toppings (olives, sliced pepper, cherry tomatoes)
Clay Faces
Suggested curriculum areas: PSHE, Social stories, Art, Reading and Writing KS2
Project ideas: Exploring emotions, telling stories to explain emotions, story-telling, exploring character emotions
Sample content: Changing faces through clay
Materials: Clay
Zones of Regulation
Suggested curriculum areas: Zones of Regulation
Project ideas: Support emotional regulation, help children to find their calming activities
Sample content: blue emotions, behaviours causing change through zones
Materials: Coloured plates, markers
Directions and Quarter turns
Suggested curriculum areas: Directions EYFS
Project ideas: Build on directions to explore different types of vehicles
Sample content: Go, stop, forward, left, right, quarter turns.
Materials: Matchbox cars and road carpet
Playing with Word Stems
Suggested curriculum areas: Prefix and Suffix KS1
Project ideas: Phonics
Sample content: Suffixes of ‘play’
Materials: Photo of a slide, bluetack, magnetic letters
Geometry
Suggested curriculum areas: 2D and 3D shapes Maths KS1
Project ideas: Recognising different shapes
Sample content: triangle, rectangle, circle
pyramid, cuboid, sphere
Materials: paper and playdough
Previous Animation Project Examples
Billy Goats Gruff
A nursery small world animation
Train Ride
A nursery small world toys animation and green screen project
Domingo’s Cat
A year 5 claymation project using a traditional Brazilian Story. Children wrote their own scripts and story-boards worked in groups to animate and retell this story.
Mr Gumpy’s Outing
Children aged 2-4 animated animals on a light box to tell the story of Mr Gumpy’s outing (EYFS)
The Big Red Bus
An example of using Time Lapse animation technique EYFS to build a bus using loose parts
The Emperor’s New Clothes
A traditional story brought to life with Animation (Key Stage 2)
