Nursery World - EYFS Activities: We've explored… animation

The children at one setting created sophisticated animations that were shown at their local cinema. By Annette Rawstrone

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A conversation between two children in the garden at Little Barn Owls Nursery in Horsham, West Sussex sparked a year-long animation project with the nursery’s three- and four-year-olds.

Artie (three years, ten months) commented to his friend, ‘I’m going to fly into that tree, Felix, and when I’m in the tree I’ll turn into a lizard, then a snake, a bird, then a bat, a shoe, a table and then back to me again when I get to the ground.’

The nursery’s resident atelierista Dillon Howling thought it was an excellent starting point for exploring the possibilities of transformation though animation. ‘Every project starts from a contribution from a child, usually something interesting that they’ve said or done, something that gives new possibilities to a learning context, ripe and ready to be explored,’ he explains.

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