This case study explores the story of the 2022 Connected Falkirk Creative Activities for Kids Festive Edition and how schools engaged with and extended the range of iPad based challenges.
Looking for festive activities to do with your classes throughout December? ☃️❄️
Why not try some of our Festive Creative Activities for Kids using your Connected Falkirk devices? 📲
For more information including video tutorials click the link below 👇https://t.co/NZ0k7yc0rW pic.twitter.com/QhvqM4Pmee
— Connected Falkirk (@ConnectedFalk) December 1, 2022
Context
The festive period often involves a lot of creative activities in schools. Connected Falkirk created a suite of eight short creative projects which allow pupils to explore their iPad features further and use their device to make a range of seasonal artefacts with the aim of bringing some digital creativity and digital skill building to the festive period in school.
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What did you do?
Starting with a launch event for pupils we introduced the Creative Activities for Kids Festive Edition, participated in a festive Kahoot (well done to our winners P7H at Westquarter Primary School) and completed task one ‘Seasonify Something’ together. This event kick started the resource and we saw many classes taking part in the remaining challenges over the following days and weeks.
Alongside the digital task sheet with written instructions we also provided a video for each of the challenges which demonstrated how to get started. These videos were designed for use in class with children and young people and we saw many classes making use of these to introduce the tasks after the live event. The current total views across all videos is 1,047 and counting!
Great excitement coming 1st on the @Kahoot podium @ConnectedFalk session this morning!🎄🎅 pic.twitter.com/yx4Qc3WhJv
— P7HWPS (@P7HWPS) December 1, 2022
#P7M enjoyed the first Creative Festive Activity from @ConnectedFalk this morning. We enjoyed ‘seasonify-ing’ some objects we found in the classroom! 🎅🏻🎄 pic.twitter.com/a5czT0yHfP
— St Margaret's PS (@stmargaretsps) December 1, 2022
On the first day of Advent we joined the @ConnectedFalk team as they showed us their festive creative ideas! We joined in seasonifying items around our classroom! #bantdigital pic.twitter.com/S2i1l5nRYU
— Bantaskin P6C (@BantMissCollins) December 2, 2022
🎄What a great way to start off the festive season using iPads to take part in Festive Creative Activities @ConnectedFalk Excitment, enthusiasm and teamwork all around. @Kinneil_PS pic.twitter.com/dHorYhSycV
— Ms Glasgow P5G (@MsGlasgow_KPS) December 1, 2022
What a fantastic way to start off the festive season using iPads to take part in Festive Creative Activities @ConnectedFalk. We used iPads to ‘seasonify’ objects around the class.🎄 pic.twitter.com/AVHBylBrap
— P5 & Miss McKechnie (@Laurieston_P5) December 2, 2022
Thank you @ConnectedFalk for your 🎄⛄Festive Creative Activities Live Launch!🎅🏼🎁 We had great fun taking part in the Kahoot and then "seasonifying" objects using the mark up tool. Even Toby 🐾 was seasonifyed. More pupils will be getting involved in future lessons. #IWBStech pic.twitter.com/u22LlBhkC1
— Miss Hedges (@MissHedgesIWBS) December 1, 2022
What was the impact?
We saw lots of pupils engaging with creative activities on their devices with a number of teachers reporting high levels of engagement and fun. There has also been evidence of pupils discovering and exploring apps they have never used previously with some teachers telling us that it has given them and their learners ideas for other uses for these apps in the future – Clips and Maps tended to be the most popular of this category.
We have also seen on Twitter a number of pupils who attended the live session taking the ‘Seasonsify Something’ task and leading this with classes elsewhere in the school as well as encouraging other classes in their school to take up some of the creative challenges.
An unexpected but very exciting development was seeing how pupils who were already participating in the #Falkirkfitmas2022 challenges from @FalkirkSport combined their new knowledge and skills of iPad apps and features into the completion of these activities. This seems to have been a natural crossover from pupils and teachers taking the initiative and making connections to enhance both sets of challenges.
We took part in @ConnectedFalk Festive Activity 8 this morning, demonstrating our skills in using Clips to create ‘Seasons Greetings from Around the World’ 🌎 @DigiLearnFalk #clips #christmas #newyear #seasonsgreetings #clips 🎄🎅🏼 pic.twitter.com/mRcEHXBigR
— Deanburn PS P7 (@DeanburnPS_P7) December 15, 2022
The @stfrancisP6 showed us how to use the mark up tool. V turned herself and her friends into Santa, the elves and Rudolph! @ConnectedFalk pic.twitter.com/ChKkCo5kk9
— StFrancisP2 (@stfrancisp2) December 15, 2022
For today's @FalkirkSport Fitmas selfie challenge we seasonified ourselves into Christmas related things, some even with a fitness twist 💪🏻☃️🎅🎄 #FalkirkFitmas2022 pic.twitter.com/L9Kca03eXb
— Mrs Coyle and P7 (@Laurieston_P7) December 7, 2022
Look at the concentration as we used maps to plan out our very own ‘winter wonderland’ @ConnectedFalk ❄️⛄️ pic.twitter.com/xORhChBUG2
— P6G (@P6GHOMPS) December 12, 2022
Just a few photos of us trying out festive task No. 4 – making a time lapse video 📹. Our festive drawing demonstrations were great 👍🎄😁 @ConnectedFalk pic.twitter.com/DzDgdljBLM
— P6G (@P6GHOMPS) December 8, 2022
@ConnectedFalk challenge 8 -Seasons Greetings. We used the clips app to translate a seasonal greeting into another language. This wasn’t an app we were familiar will do it took a bit after trial and error but we got there! pic.twitter.com/BGKuycpU5u
— Laurieston P6B & Miss Thompson (@LauriestonP6B) December 8, 2022
We got started on the 2nd ‘Creative Activity for Kids’ by @ConnectedFalk – making a ‘Seasonal Storybook’. Looking good 👍🎄 pic.twitter.com/p9i5Uz9Xta
— P6G (@P6GHOMPS) December 5, 2022
On the 11th Day of Fitmas our chosen challenge was… Create a Fitmas classroom wonderland! We used our @ConnectedFalk iPads and some of the apps we’ve learned to use to turn out classroom into a Fitmas Classroom! @FalkirkSport #FalkirkFitmas2022 pic.twitter.com/3Rhqfjr0Zy
— Miss Hurren & P6H (@MissHurrenHPS) December 15, 2022
Getting in the festive spirit in P3Q. We have been using different tools on our @ConnectedFalk devices to design our own Christmas jumper. 👏🏼🌟🎄☃️ pic.twitter.com/KNVkIPmhHF
— P3Q and Miss Shaw 🐝 (@WestquarterP3Q) December 13, 2022
Pupil Voice
“I liked making cards because it was creative and fun.” – Brooke
” I liked the book because I like reading it to the wee ones” – Jaxon
“I know I’m not a pupil but I loved it!” – Miss Hedges
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Where next?
The success of the live event has made us consider expanding this type of activity in future at other points in the year. We will also be contacting @FalkirkSport to look at potential collaboration for the next festive period to possibly bring Fitmas and digital skill building together.
