Animation by 1st graders

The animated loops & still images below were made by 1st graders over 3 1-hour sessions in January-February 2024. We were 2 adults instructing 9-10 children. We told the kids we were going to make a loop of a bouncing flappy bird like this:

We split this over 3 lessons like this:

1. Drawing a background image
2. Making a bouncing ball loop - the bird's body
3. Adding wings, eyes and a beak

Kids could also add wings to a reference bouncing ball loop, in case they missed the 2nd session or otherwise wanted to.

Here are some birds they made:

And here are all of their loops and still images, split into groups each hopefully made by one kid (not 100% sure because kids sometimes swapped laptops, for example because of the battery running low):

The reference bouncing ball loop some kids added the rest of the bird to: