Create Bravely this Valentine’s Day
This Valentine’s Day, share the love with those that mean the most - virtually of course! For a fun twist on a typical card, why not have your students use Animation-ish and FabMaker Studio, to create awesome Valentines!
With these two web-based tools, your students can make Valentine’s Day explosion boxes, practice math with pop-up cards, animations of what they love, and so much more.
Here’s a few activities from the classroom that you can try with your students.
Animation-ish
Find a unique way to share your love and creativity this holiday with FableVision Learning’s Animation-ish! It’s an easy-to-use, innovative creativity tool that turns any artist into an animator in minutes. Not only is it exciting for students to create, but educators can also join in on the fun by tuning into their own creativity and using it as a teaching tool for learners to show what they know and can do in relation to content.
A simple Valentine goes a long way for the person that’s getting it as well as for the person making it. Students are encouraged to communicate, come up with fresh ideas, and create bravely with Animation-ish! Make sure you export your file as a GIF so others can see your beautiful creation in motion!
Here are a couple of ideas to get started on creating!
Write a fun, clever poem!
Design an animation of Cupid shooting a Valentine with an arrow
Make a simple heart or garden of roses
Helpful tip: All of this can be done with the paintbrush for making fine lines, or the bucket to put a splash of color in the art!
FabMaker Studio
Our digital design and fabrication tool created to get students prototyping with paper, FabMaker Studio, is an easy-to-use, online-based program that invites learners to experience STEM and STEAM mastering in an engaging, personally meaningful way.
For more tips and tricks on how to use a printer and a pair of scissors, click here.
Costly Cards
Create things meaningfully with Costly Cards this year! This lesson plan integrates elements of mathematics, English language art, engineering, and technology all in one project! Using this lesson and FabMaker Studio, students can take on the role of a graphic designer who needs to stay on budget. Costly Cards engages students in a real world task while also enhancing the importance of the engineering design process as learners create their prototypes.
Explosion Boxes
If you need an engaging way to invite your students into the world of math and engineering this holiday, FabMaker Studio's “explosion boxes” encourage learners to discover and work with new angles, measurement, parallel and perpendicular lines, symmetry, triangles, and transformational geometry.
Encourage students to customize with color, cutouts, and other design elements. Once students have their initial model in hand, ask them to explore their constructions. Use some of the questions below to kickstart a class discussion. Then challenge students to design their own original explosion boxes.
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