I have another post for you coming up on how we used this set up indoors too. The girls wanted me to draw a lady so that they could use the glass nuggets as her necklace. Of course I couldn't resist having a go too. Gradually I'm hoping that the kids can start to use this as a medium for telling stories and I can video a few. Powered Brightness Dimmable for Diamond Painting Tatoo Pad Animation 27. It only took a couple of cups of sand, and all the sand was nicely contained by the box's 4 inch sides. We manufacture changable graphic LED Light Boxes from 20mm in depth through. I'd like to try and find a tub of fine grained sand to make more detail possible in our drawings, but there's plenty of time for that. The sand we used was right out of our sandbox, so it was quite course. I gave them a couple of rubber spatulas to work the sand with as well as their hands. We had to wait until about 9pm for it to be dark enough, but it was worth the late night for the kids because they had so much fun with it! The kids were very excited to go out in the dark to play with the sand lightbox. There are plenty of other examples of sand art/animation on Youtube that are much easier for kids to watch if you think this particular one is a bit too heavy to explain. She uses my animation table but it is a bit too large for her to work with, and she can’t move it around. It's not the easiest to explain to young children, because it's about the Nazi invasion of the USSR during the second world war, but it's very powerfully done. Tracing, Animation, X-ray, Light Box Under 20: My Girlfriend is a Fashion design major working on her MFA, and she often needs to trace her sketches. This sand animation by Kseniya Simonova in my opinion is by far the best one I've seen. I showed my kids a few before we went out to play with ours, so they knew what we were making. There are loads of sand art videos you can watch on the web. I also dug out some little glass nuggets to add interest to the set up. Then I used painters tape to tape a sheet of white paper over the plexiglass, to make a light diffuser that would also protect the plexiglass from scratching in case we want to use it for something else in the future. To use this outside with the sand, I just propped it up on four of our giant wooden blocks, and put a couple of desk lamps under the table with an extension chord. Thank you Liz! The two bits of 2x4 I used for this were from there!
I need to say thank you to a lovely reader Liz, who emailed me to tell me about an architectural salvage place near us that might be able to give away some gnarly 2x4 for the kids to hammer at. This also resulted in a couple of nice sized sections on either side of the screen that could hold supplies. I have seen a couple of lightboxes come up on Craigslist, the last one was even free, but it was too big for us to transport, and so I decided to use this crate base to make our own, but make it so that it could be stored away, and used both inside and outside, whilst still being able to be used with the Lego when we wanted.Īll I needed to do was a bit of measuring, then jigsaw out a nice big hole from the base, cut some plexiglass to size, and then screw in a couple of lengths of 2x4 to hold the plexiglass down. We used to use a blanket, but this is much better.
It contains all the teensy bits of Lego and stops them spreading all over the livingroom. It's been in use in our livingroom for a while as a Lego construction center. He was going to ditch the crate, so we nabbed it (thanks Rich!). One of our friends had a painting restored, and it came in a nice sturdy wooden crate. The Lightboard lets me draw highly visible sketches and equations as I lecture, work with my drawings in a natural way, face the camera, and capture good quality video without post-production editing.This is another thing that I've wanted to sort out for the kids for a while, but it wasn't until recently that the right container came our way. I point to terms in equations, illustrate movement in diagrams - I talk with my hands! It's natural for humans and maybe also for chimps to "follow the hands." Moreover, while teaching, I work the board.
Good video lectures have usually gone through a lot of post-production editing to merge a video of the instructor speaking to the camera, with graphics to illustrate the material.
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( Flipped or hybrid classes means that students watch lecture material online, to free up classroom time for interactive activities.)įilming a chalkboard lecture results in a dismal video.
Recently I've wanted to record short video lectures for my electronics design course, both for online education and for flipped classes. Here is a link to the tutorial where I build a lightbox. In the classroom I use a chalkboard for drawings and equations. Lightbox -Easy DIY project for anyone working in illustration, design, tattoo design, animation. I'm an engineering prof at Northwestern University.
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