About

Puppet Pals is a really engaging app that can be used for simple animation or as story planner in English. In the free version, you have a choice of 4 fairy tale backgrounds (a castle, a field, a woods and a cave) and 8 fairy tale characters including a princess, a knight, an evil with and a dragon. In this app, you can animate where the characters movie to and record audio, however, they don't move their mouths or body parts. The characters are placed on a stage and you can move them around, move them off, change the background and enlarge or shrink them. In the paid version, you can download more characters and backgrounds from different themes and you can insert your own background, such as your classroom or the children can add themselves in as characters as the app connects to the iPad camera. You could even photograph a character from the book you are using and animate that story. The animation then saves as a video.   

Where can I access it?

App Store: Puppet Pals -  https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/puppet-pals-hd/id342076546 (Free)
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App Store: Puppet Pals (Director's Pass) -  https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/puppet-pals-hd-directors-pass/id462134755   (£3.99)

Tutorials & Lesson Ideas

​1. On Puppet Pals. Animate a Fairy Tale cartoon.  

2. On Director’s Cut – Insert a picture of themselves in or a famous person they are studying. Animate a part of their life or have them be interviewed by the child. 

3. On Director's Cut - Create an animation using other characters and backgrounds that you can download. 
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4. On Director's Cut - Insert an image of a character from a book they are studying and some backgrounds from the book and animate a retell, or a prediction of what happens next. 

5. Plan a story that they are going to write by animating it first. 

Video Tutorial
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Examples of Work