Animated films and the skills needed to produce them can provide a stimulus to learning across the curriculum - especially in Art and Design, History, ICT, Science and Literacy. The drawings and models replace actors and actresses, so when children are creating their own animation it is important to approach it through the creative skills they would use in drama rather than graphical skills. Children will have their own preconceived ideas about what animation is from what they have seen at the cinema and watched on television. Try to alert them to the fact that animation is not just Pokemon and Disney cartoons.
Animation is image manipulation and it can be used on any object - from pins to people.
Teamwork Animation is a co-operative exercise and will utilise the varying skills of the children in the group getting the best out of them. Sounds Sounds can come from tapes or CDs, or the children can make the sounds themselves using their voices or musical instruments. Is a sound effects archive. Get the children to be creative when devising sounds. In the end they used different objects to create sounds, like metal, glass and wood.