Bobblehead Blossoms

Bobblehead Blossoms: still image from green screen app by DoInk

Have your students bloomed where they were planted? Have they grown this school year?
What better way to show student growth than to have them demonstrate with an animated bobblehead featuring themselves. Each students' animation could include a reflection in audio or text highlighting the way they have grown throughout the school year.

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Bobblehead blossoms from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Students create a flower stem drawing in Sketchbook Express and save to the camera roll. Then, students open the image in Superimpose app and mask out the background. Save as mask png to camera roll.

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Use the symmetry tool in Sketchbook Express to draw a flower blossom. Use the fill bucket to color & lines to add visual texture. Leave a circular space in the center. Open the image in Superimpose app. Layer a photo of student's head. Erase edge until it fits nicely in center. Save & reimport to erase background and save.

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Use DoInk Animation app to create a composition layering the blossom on the stem. Use the keyframe button to create 4 one second stages in the bobblehead movement.

RESOURCES:
See my bobblehead animation tutorial for how to  save images as a "mask png" to create transparent backgrounds, layer images in DoInk Animation app, and create the movements using keyframes.

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layering (click to enlarge)

Option: Have students photograph a place where they have grown or have been planted. Use this photo as the background for the animation. 

Data import (click to enlarge)

Option: Save as data (doInk) and open in Green screen app to have more than one bobblehead blossom animate together.

You can also make a still image by merging layers and adding more in Superimpose app. Import this into thinglink and share how students have grown.

Import your animation video in the Shadow Puppet app to add voice recording and music. This would be a great way for your students to explain how they've grown.

Here is another appsmash. I created a budding artist slideshow using Superimpose app, photogrid app, the blossom bobblehead animation from DoInk, and the Green Screen app. Blow are the pieces I made and combined.  I layered blue background, a green shape (to become transparent in the green screen app), and a frame in superimpose app then put it in Phonto to add text. I left the space on the right for the blossom animation. I chose a square frame to match the format of the slideshow created using photogrid app. This is a great way to create mini digital portfolios with your budding artists. The above movie was made using the Green Screen app. The top layer was the blossom animation, middle layer was the budding artist template, bottom layer was the slideshow.