KITS by Somewhere Studios
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Kit 1 - Stereoscope
Level 1 media skills
10 yo +
1 + hours
The Stereoscope is viewing device created in the early 1800s that makes the two images placed side-by-side appear
3 Dimensional.
The STEREOSCOPE kit allows you to assemble the device and paint it as well as create the 3D photo media to add to the viewing device.
10 yo +
1 + hours
The Stereoscope is viewing device created in the early 1800s that makes the two images placed side-by-side appear
3 Dimensional.
The STEREOSCOPE kit allows you to assemble the device and paint it as well as create the 3D photo media to add to the viewing device.
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Learning benefits include:
• Photography • Photoshop • Motor skills • Creative thinking • Visual literacy • History/science/arts • Computer literacy • Reading instructions |
• Problem solving
• Decision making • Patience • Initiative and enterprise • Planning and organising • Self management |
Kit 2 - Phenakistoscope
Level 3 media skills
10 yo +
2 + hours
The Phenak-ist-o-scope kit allows you to assemble the device and paint it as well as create the animated media to add to the spinning device.
Also known as a wheel of life and sold as the ‘fantascope’, the device allows drawn sequential
images to be perceived as movement. At the edge of a second disc there are a number of
radial slits that create the perception of movement while being rotated on a hand-held
spinning device.
1832
ACMI/Hayward Gallery 2006
10 yo +
2 + hours
The Phenak-ist-o-scope kit allows you to assemble the device and paint it as well as create the animated media to add to the spinning device.
Also known as a wheel of life and sold as the ‘fantascope’, the device allows drawn sequential
images to be perceived as movement. At the edge of a second disc there are a number of
radial slits that create the perception of movement while being rotated on a hand-held
spinning device.
1832
ACMI/Hayward Gallery 2006
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Learning benefits include:
• Photography • Photoshop • Motor skills • Creative thinking • Visual literacy • History/science/arts • Computer literacy • Reading instructions • Sequencing |
• Problem solving
• Decision making • Patience • Initiative and enterprise • Planning and organising • Self management |
Kit 3 - Chinese Fireworks / Revolving Lantern
Level 1 media skills
12 yo +
2+ hours
Chinese fireworks were originally created by inserting a perforated panel into a peep box.
The size, shape, arrangement and placing of the perforations determine the final effect.
Behind the panel a clockwork mechanism causes a paper disc, painted with bright
spirals and illuminated by candlelight, to rotate.
1634
ACMI/Hayward Gallery 2006
12 yo +
2+ hours
Chinese fireworks were originally created by inserting a perforated panel into a peep box.
The size, shape, arrangement and placing of the perforations determine the final effect.
Behind the panel a clockwork mechanism causes a paper disc, painted with bright
spirals and illuminated by candlelight, to rotate.
1634
ACMI/Hayward Gallery 2006
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Learning benefits include:
• Photography • Photoshop • Motor skills • Creative thinking • Visual literacy • History/science/arts • Computer literacy • Reading instructions • Sequencing |
• Problem solving
• Decision making • Patience • Initiative and enterprise • Planning and organising • Self management |
Kit 4 - Flip Book
Level 3 media skills
12 yo +
3 + hours
A flip book or flick book is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page
to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate..
Flip books are essentially a primitive form of animation. Like motion pictures, they rely on
persistence of vision to create the illusion that continuous motion is being seen.
1868
Wikipedia 2012
12 yo +
3 + hours
A flip book or flick book is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page
to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate..
Flip books are essentially a primitive form of animation. Like motion pictures, they rely on
persistence of vision to create the illusion that continuous motion is being seen.
1868
Wikipedia 2012
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Learning benefits include:
• Photography • Photoshop • Motor skills • Creative thinking • Visual literacy • History/science/arts • Computer literacy • Reading instructions • Sequencing |
• Problem solving
• Decision making • Patience • Initiative and enterprise • Planning and organising • Self management |
Kit 5 - Photo Mache Lantern
Level 1 media skills
5 yo +
1 hour
The Photo Mache kit allows you to make glowing lanterns using your favourite photos pasted onto a paper lantern.
5 yo +
1 hour
The Photo Mache kit allows you to make glowing lanterns using your favourite photos pasted onto a paper lantern.
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Learning benefits include:
• Photography • Photoshop [not essential] • Motor skills • Creative thinking • Reading instructions |
• Problem solving
• Decision making • Patience • Initiative and enterprise • Planning and organising • Self management |
Kit 6 - Crawling Dragon
No media required
5 yo +
1 hour
The Crawling Dragon is a beautifully simple mechanical creature that moves along the floor in a very life like way. Kids love it and they will love painting, decorating and putting the sweet little dragon together whilst learning how simple mechanical movements work.
5 yo +
1 hour
The Crawling Dragon is a beautifully simple mechanical creature that moves along the floor in a very life like way. Kids love it and they will love painting, decorating and putting the sweet little dragon together whilst learning how simple mechanical movements work.
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Learning benefits include:
• Motor skills • Creative thinking • Reading instructions |
• Problem solving
• Decision making • Patience • Initiative and enterprise • Planning and organising • Self management |
Kit 7 - Terrarium
No media required
4 yo +
1/2 hour
A lovely way to make your home greener.
As early as 500 BC, plants were kept under bell-shaped glass jars for exhibit. But the terrarium in its modern form was invented by accident in 1827 by Nathaniel Ward, a London doctor.
www.terrariums.net
4 yo +
1/2 hour
A lovely way to make your home greener.
As early as 500 BC, plants were kept under bell-shaped glass jars for exhibit. But the terrarium in its modern form was invented by accident in 1827 by Nathaniel Ward, a London doctor.
www.terrariums.net
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Learning benefits include:
• Motor skills • Creative thinking • Reading instructions |
• Problem solving
• Decision making • Patience • Initiative and enterprise • Planning and organising • Self management |
Kit 8 - Tunnel Book
Level 1 media skills
10 yo +
1-2 hours
Tunnel books (also called peepshow books) consist of a set of pages bound with
two folded concertina strips on each side and viewed through a hole in the cover.
Openings in each page allow the viewer to see through the entire book to the back,
and images on each page work together to create a dimensional scene inside.
This type of book was inspired by theatrical stage sets.
1850s
Wikipedia 2012
10 yo +
1-2 hours
Tunnel books (also called peepshow books) consist of a set of pages bound with
two folded concertina strips on each side and viewed through a hole in the cover.
Openings in each page allow the viewer to see through the entire book to the back,
and images on each page work together to create a dimensional scene inside.
This type of book was inspired by theatrical stage sets.
1850s
Wikipedia 2012
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Learning benefits include:
• Photography [not essential] • Photoshop [not essential] • Motor skills • Creative thinking • Visual literacy • History/science/arts • Computer literacy • Reading instructions • Sequencing |
• Problem solving
• Decision making • Patience • Initiative and enterprise • Planning and organising • Self management |
Kit 9 - Magic Folding Cube
Level 2 media skills
12 yo +
2+ hours
A magical cube that keeps folding around and turns itself inside out!
12 yo +
2+ hours
A magical cube that keeps folding around and turns itself inside out!
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Learning benefits include:
• Photography • Photoshop • Motor skills • Creative thinking • Visual literacy • History/science/arts • Computer literacy • Reading instructions • Sequencing |
• Problem solving
• Decision making • Patience • Initiative and enterprise • Planning and organising • Self management |
Kit 10 - Praxinascope/Zoetrope
Level 3 media skills
12 yo +
2+hours
Made to order
A viewing device where a sequence of images is seen in a centred polygonal circle of mirrors. The
images are placed on the inner wall of a rotating drum, their number corresponds to the number
of flat mirrors that are set next to each other in a circle in the centre of the drum.
1877
ACMI/Hayward Gallery 2006
12 yo +
2+hours
Made to order
A viewing device where a sequence of images is seen in a centred polygonal circle of mirrors. The
images are placed on the inner wall of a rotating drum, their number corresponds to the number
of flat mirrors that are set next to each other in a circle in the centre of the drum.
1877
ACMI/Hayward Gallery 2006
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Learning benefits include:
• Photography • Photoshop • Motor skills • Creative thinking • Visual literacy • History/science/arts • Computer literacy • Reading instructions • Sequencing |
• Problem solving
• Decision making • Patience • Initiative and enterprise • Planning and organising • Self management |