Create animated fairy lights | an iPad QuickLesson Video

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Animated Fairy Lights

8th December 2020

Suggested Lesson Duration: 60mins

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an iPad QuickLesson by Jacob Woolcock

Description

In this #QuickLesson we’ll learn how to use Keynote to create a simple yet fun animated GIF featuring some beautifully festive Fairy Lights.

By creating multiple slides with the same drawings but different colours we can quickly and effectively create a lovely animation that would work in so many contexts across the curriculum.

For today though, we’re looking at a fun end-of-term activity by decorating our classroom in Christmas lights!

Teacher Notes

This is a lovely activity for the run-up to Christmas and over the years I’ve done similar projects with children from Year 1 right up to Year 6. You can add in additional complexity by ‘decorating’ large areas of a classroom with fairy lights, twinkly trees and glowing snowflakes – or equally you can simplify this greatly by focussing on a singular object like I’ve done in this tutorial.

Transcript

Introduction

Step 1: Photograph and Edit your Scene

Step 2: Prepare your Drawing Space

Step 3: Draw your Fairy Lights

Step 4: Animate your Fairy Lights

Step 5: Save as an Animated Gif

Conclusion

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Step 1: Photograph and Edit your Scene

begins at 02:18

Keynote

Step 2: Prepare your Drawing Space

begins at 03:18

Keynote

Step 3: Draw your Fairy Lights

begins at 03:45

Keynote

Step 4: Animate your Fairy Lights

begins at 05:07

Keynote

Step 5: Save as an Animated Gif

begins at 06:48

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