Island Drawing & Storytelling

Stories, stories, stories! Create and illustrate your own story while learning about Island culture. Software such as Orly's Draw-A-Story, Story Book Weaver and Creative Writer 2 encourage children to create their " story" while sharing their own ideas and perceptions of the world. Kindergarten through sixth grade will enjoy sharing their stories!

Island Drawing enhances A Palette of Fun with Arts and Crafts, a 4-H CCS visual arts curriculum.

• Orly's Draw-A-Story

• Story Book Weaver Deluxe

• Creative Writer 2

• Create and Draw in Elmo's World

• Orly's Draw-A-Story encourages your child's imagination and creativity through drawing and storytelling. Set in the Caribbean island of Jamaica, Orly leads children through directions to get them started drawing and painting. Orly provides backdrops and suggestions to help along the way. Stories can be saved in an old chest and viewed at the Junkyard Drive-In Theater. 
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• Story Book Weaver Deluxe
  Explore the writing process with creative writing tools. Illustrate your own book with thousands of colorful graphics. Hear your book read aloud. All this and more is possible with Story Book Weaver. Story Book Weaver Deluxe is bilingual so you can write in English or Spanish.
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• Creative Writer 2
  Show The World Your Creative Genius! Creative Writer 2 makes it easy to create your own original and creative masterpieces. Check out the amazing drawing, painting and publishing tools and create school or personal projects... Let your imagination go! Select an easy to use project template or review the new project samples. Create a web page, book report, greeting card, or banner, just to name a
  few. Combine your words and ideas with clip art,
  backgrounds, borders, music themes, letter colors
  and special effects to make your projects beautiful, funny or wacky! 
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• Create and Draw in Elmo's World
  Elmo offers encouragement and ideas as a preschool child explores this interactive drawing and animation software. Children draw their own pictures filling them in with an electronic crayon, adding patterns and adding music. This software has seven activities such as the big zoo, mix & match animals, and draw a song. The highlight of the software is when their drawings come 
  to life through animation.
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Art Content

• Elements and Principles of Design

• National Content Standards for Education in the Arts

• Artistic Stages of Children

Communicating - exchange of thoughts, information, or messages between individuals; sending and receiving information using speech, writing, gestures, and artistic expression
 
Learning to learn - acquiring, evaluating, and using information; understanding the methods and skills for learning 

Problem solving - clearly identifying a problem and a plan of action for resolution of the problem

Using Orly's Draw-A-Story software:  Start at Orly's Stories

You can make the following choices:

1.  Chose "Learn" tire to become familiar with the software features.

2.  Chose "Play" tire and complete one of the following stories: (Be sure to try out all the features in the software)

The Strange Princess
Lancelot: Bug Eater
The Ugly Troll People
One Big Wish

3. Chose Make Your Own Storybook about a real or make believe adventure.

Select a scene and pictures or draw your own.  Practice painting with solids and patterns, and drawing.  Try adding some sounds to your story!

View your stories at the Junkyard Drive-In Theater.

Be sure to edit your story. 

Save your story

Go to the Menu and select print to print your whole story or just one page.  Share this story with a friend.

• What was your story about?

• What designs or drawings did you use in your story?

• How did you decide which tools/features to use?  Such as the shutters? Paint cans?

• What do you like best about your story? Why?

A Mapmaker's Adventure 

• Make a mountain topo map!, The Space Place at JPL 

• Relief Map Puzzle, The Space Place, JPL

Activities:

• A Place of My Own

• A Neighborhood Travel Brochure

Children's Books:

• The Jollymon by Jimmy & Savannah Jane Buffet, Scholastic Books, 1988.
• Tough Boris by Mem Fox, Voyager Bookers Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998.
• The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Jane Yolen, Voyager Bookers Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998.
• The Faithful Friend by Robert D. SanSouci, Simon & Schuster for Young Readers, 1995 (Caldecott Honor Book; Coretta Scott King Award) - Martinique
• Tap-Tap by Karen Lynn Williams, Clarion Books, 1994 - Haiti
• My Little Island by Frané Lessac, Harper & Row Publishers (Reading Rainbow Book) - Caribbean 
• Rata-pata-scata-fata by Philis Gershator, Little Brown and Company, 1994. - Virgin Islands
• Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert, Crown Publisher's, 1990.

Books for Adults:

• Stories in My Pocket, Tales Kids Can Tell by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss, Fulcrum Publishing, 1996.

• A Palette of Fun with Arts and Crafts, 4-H CCS, 2001
• Island Worlds by Crizmac Art and Cultural Education Materials