School 9 Art fare

Last Tuesday, some of the year twelves went to school 9 for an art fare. Year twelves were asked to organise fun art related activities for kids. This was done in pairs and two pairs were always in one class room, so that while the other pair was running their activity the other pair could have a small brake or help with the activity. The art fare lasted for around 4,5 hours.

I was doing an activity with Måns. Every group had over all two classes to whom an activity was organised. Me and Måns organised an activity where the students had to draw on an A4 piece of paper that was folded into 4 parts. Each of the parts was supposed to have a different body part of a human figure drawn on it and therefore 4 students were asked to sit on one table. The idea of the activity was that each student would draw one body part each on one of the folded parts in a way that when the next one who needs to draw the next body part will not see the previously drawn one. This was done so that when the complete figure was drawn, the outcome would be a funny surprise for everybody in the group. The activity didn't work out quite well with the first class because the kids didn't seem to understand the main idea of the activity. Some kids weren't passing the paper around after they had drawn the first body part (instead decided to draw the whole picture themselves) and some pictures weren't finished on time. However when we were running the same activity with the second class, everything went much better. We decided to put the kids to draw the body parts as a team, so that each team (out of 4) were drawing one body part at a time and when finished the paper was passed on to the next team. Sometimes the papers weren't folded well enough making the team members to see the previously drawn body part, however it didn't ruin the fun because in the end when the outcomes were revealed, the kids were laughing.Over all, the day went well, however it made everybody extremely tired. If we are to do this again, we should organise the activities more in detail, especially if there are young kids participating.

On Wednesday, some of the older kids from school 9 came to visit our school. This time me and Måns spend only one period with them. The activity that we set up for the kids was to draw own flip book animations. We encountered a bit trouble as the process of making the flip books took more time than was expected, so the class had to wait for a while. However in the end, all kids from the class had managed to draw nice flip book animations. The activity went over all well. If we are to do this activity again, we should make the flip books edges even so that they could be flipped more easily.

An example of a flip book animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAExZjcwydk