On my last day of Spring Break...

So it's my last day of Spring break and I am...take a guess.  Sitting on a beach? Camping? Kayaking? Reading? Having lunch with a friend? 
Nope.  None of the above.
I am playing with a Stop Motion video maker and thinking of the classroom applications.  
​I know...I'm stupid.  

Stop Motion Studio - FREE iPad app

I don't even remember how my brain got onto Stop Motion animation in the first place.  Sheesh. 
Somehow, I stumbled across this iPad app.  I watched a quick tutorial and off I went, with the unwilling assistance of my 10 year old.  We drew some quick simple drawings and I printed some letters/words on my home printer.  

We got everything cut out and colored before we started. As you can see, our "filming" set up was very crude and simple. 

It took us 1 hour from start to finish.  Our video was only 11 seconds long, but as you saw above; it was pretty spiffy even if I do say so myself!
It was super easy to make.  My son manned the iPad and took all the pictures and I moved the pieces.  Once we had all of our pictures taken, it was a simple matter of saving the video to the camera roll on the iPad and then uploading it to YouTube. 

The next step will be how to use this in the classroom.  As you can guess, I have a few ideas already!  Stay tuned...I'll let you know what my students did with this cool little app!  Oh, did I mention that this app is FREE!  Apparently, it does have fancy features that you do have to pay for.  But for my purposes, the free version will work just fine!  
​Check out the Stop Motion Studio app in iTunes here.