Animal Emotions – Fortune Teller Activity Sheets

The next phase in this college project was to introduce what we had made into a broader platform. I decided, as I had made a childs paper toy, that I wanted to make an activity pack for it. I remember getting little activity packs as a child that would come with puzzles, colouring books and crayons. My aim aim was to create something to that effect in keeping with the style I had created.

The above images show some of the inserts in the activity pack I made. You have the page for fortune teller itself so that a child can cut it out and make. You have a folding instructions page too with visual aids so that a child would be able to make sure they were making it properly. Then finally, there are instructions how to play the little game itself.

I did make some more inserts for the activity pack which I will post soon. I kept all the pages blue because they go together in sequence whereas the other pages I created where stand alone pages. I continued to use coloured paper for texture so that everything was consistent in theme and look.

Animal Emotions – Fortune Tellers

These are some images I took of my ‘fortune’ tellers from a college project called Animal Emotions. See more on the three separate pieces I created here, here and here.

Animal Emotions – Zebra

My third and final animal that I chose to illustrate was a zebra. In hindsight, I’m not sure it was the wisest selection because it’s not as colourful as the other animals I made. But ah well! That’s nature! Can’t go raggin’ on zebras now. And I guess I did make up the colours of the ostrich too. Hmmm. Scratch all of that. The zebra stays. Probably the most famous animal of the alphabet. See – it keeps with the kids theme as well haha.

So above we have a shocked zebra, a sleepy zebra, an in love zebra and a weird zebra. Instead of using a more familiar type of stripe, I collected photos of patterns in my room. I took a photo of a houndstooth patterned jumper I had and printed off a few images. I could then use that as a paper layer in my zebra collages. This was a good idea before I even knew it, because the characters were made before they were put into a fortune teller format. If I had gone with more traditional stripes, it would be too hard to distinguish between the tiger teller and the zebra teller. So luckily I had a new pattern.

As you can see, the pattern in the outer corners gives the zebra character his own separate identity. Unfortunately, I have no photos of the zebra ‘fortune’ teller showing the inner part, but I do have some shots of the outside and how you use them. This is for anyone who has never seen one of these doodahs in action!

Animal Emotions – Tiger

These are the second round of characters I had to make for my college project. I chose the tiger because it’s one of my favourite animals and also I thought it would be something I would enjoy illustrating. I think people who can draw can manage things like cats or dogs quite easily because they’ve probably been drawing them in fridge pictures since they were little. Hence my choosing a tiger! So above we have the ferocious tiger, silly tiger, sick tiger and wise tiger. I think the poor green sick tiger is my favourite one of he four. I feel sorry for a piece of paper!

I drew the stripes on rather than use paper. Mostly to save time and effort. But also because regular black paper is hard to come by. It’s usually sugar paper or card and all that would stand out to much against the thinner coloured paper I’d been using elsewhere. So out came the trusty black permanent marker.

If you have seen the previous ostrich post you’ll know I kept to pretty much the same child-aimed colour scheme and layout. In the outer corners we have tiger stripes to denote the animal inside. My little sisters had great fun playing with the ‘fortune’ tellers so I’ll take it as a successful outcome!

Animal Emotions – Ostrich

These images are from a college project entitled Animal Emotions. The brief entailed taking a trip to the zoo to photograph and observe animals. When our research was collected we were then informed that we would be illustrating three of these animals and projecting four different human emotions onto them. The first animal I chose was an ostrich as I had a lot of material to work from in my notebook.

I decided to use paper collage to animate the animals. Every now and then I tried to get away from working on the computer in college. So these are the final four images I chose. I handmade every detail with colored paper, glue and a scalpel. I touched up some of the images with Photoshop to get rid of things like glue stains and tears in the paper.

The next part of the brief was to incorporate the animals illustration into some other sort of media. So some people made posters, flashcards and books. I chose a childs fortune teller. The style I had portrayed my animals was quite child like and tangible so I wanted to make a physical moveable piece that a child would like to play with.

The pattern on the outer corners was taken from the scalloped pattern on the ostriches body. A curvy rounded font was selected to make it look playful and child friendly. So the aim was that any child could print this off and fold it up themselves to play a game with it. Some people might remember making these with copybook paper in school.