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Create a flip book

Watch Krishna, age 12, and learn how to create and animate a flip book.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art #metkids create Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Create a Flip Book ♪ (music) ♪ Start with a black stack of sticky notes. Wrap tape around the top of the notepad where the notes stick together. Start on the last sticky note. Draw a picture on the bottom half, flip to the next sticky note. Look at your first drawing through the paper. Begin to trace the still parts of the picture. Change the parts that move. Flip to the next page, change it again. As you fill in the notepad create movement little by little. Flip the pages from back to front and watch your animation. Get inspired by Northeaster, 1895; reworked by 1901, Winslow Homer Your turn! Materials: sticky notepad, tape, pencil or pen