Kid Pix 4 Ideas
Kid Pix 4 Deluxe is a Mac program that allows users to create still images and animated movies. This software is designed for use by children, so it is very user-friendly and interactive. Released in 2004, this version predates Kid Pix 3X and 3D so it lacks certain features such as 3-dimensional characters, animated backgrounds and built-in voice capture utilities.
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Literature Tie-In
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After reading a book with the class, have students illustrate their favorite scene from the story. Use Kid Pix to generate, original covers for book reports. Students can even use this program to produce short book reviews with text and sound. Assign each student a famous, literary quote and give them free reign to interpret the language as an image.
Vacation Tales
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Welcome students back from summer or winter break with a story-telling activity. Invite kids to draw scenes from their recent vacations that shows events they attended or activities they completed. You can set restrictions for the assignment to make it more challenging. For example, require students to use figurative language to describe a scene. Exchange the nouns and pronouns in the text with stamps and clip art to form a pictorial, rebus story.
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Flyers
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Promote an upcoming school event or personal agenda with an informational flyer made in Kid Pix. Children can create colorful, posters for a dance, graduation or parent-teacher nights. Consider allowing younger children to make fact flyers after reading a non-fictional book. They can restate facts directly from the text, while using the clip art and images in the animal, stamp set. Print the flyers and place each in the center of a sheet of construction paper.
Letters
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Have students use Kid Pix Deluxe 4 to write letters to distant relatives or pen pals. They can use techniques they learned in other projects to animate the image. Letters may be printed and mailed or electronically transferred to preserve animation and sound. If sharing letters with another class within your school district, consider placing your Kid Pix data in a shared network drive. That way students can view files without wasting paper and collaborate on group projects.
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References
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