Tricia Fuglestad's Blog

Thumbtastic Digital Collage

4/4/2017

This anthropomorphic thumb, finger, or hand digital project will give students a chance to learn about digital collage, demonstrate an expression with their eyes, mouth, and voice, be creative, and come up with a sentence that includes a hand, thumb, or finger pun. Isn't that thumbtastic?

Have a Thumbtastic Day

Green Thumb

Lady Thumbstad. Crowned Princess of the Finger Lakes

Can you HANDle this?

Obe Thumb Kenobi

Everybody needs Thumbody

Steps: Digital Collage

1. Dress up your thumb, finger, or hand with Barbie or Ken doll clothes/accessories

2. Use the superimpose app to crop, clean, and add background color

3. Turn the iPad camera on yourself. Be expressive to match your character.

4. Merge the photo to the background and bring in your eyes. Use the paintbrush to erase. Click "soft brush" to blend. Adjust color to blend skin.

5. When you're done with the eyes, MERGE again. This flattens the art (so you can't go back and change the eyes again). Bring in the lips. Erase to isolate the lips then use soft brush to blend. Exaggerate the size.

6. When you're working on your thumbtastic creature, think about its voice, personality, and what it might say. Look at my list of puns to get your mind thinking.

7. Use Chatterpix app to record a sentence including a thumb, finger, or hand pun with an expressive voice. Here is mine using, "I'm all thumbs."

RESOURCES:

Use this handout of hand, thumb, and finger puns to get your creative ideas flowing.

handthumbfingerpuns.pdf
File Size:	36 kb
File Type:	pdf

Download File

We happen to have two Fugleflicks with Anthropomorphic fingers and hands. These movies include some puns and acting that may get the creative juices flowing.