Thursday, August 19, 2004
An online friend of mine wrote mew to get my advice on starting a cartooning ministry with his 5th and 6th grade students. While quite honestly my cartooning ministry did not launch the way I hoped it might I am looking to try again in the fall. I am passing along the ideas that I gave him in the event that there is anyone else looking to do something like this.
I don't know how much help I can be in this area right now as my cartooning ministry to kids never reqally launched the way I hoped it might. (we area new church plant without a lot of kids and it was hard to get people to jump into it, with no relationship to the church.) I hope to try again soon, but it has been difficult to get it going.
As far as what to do with 5th and 6th graders, I think I would start by giving them a story from the word to read, do a study on it with them so they understand the dynamics. Next develkop a story line/script based around the scripture. This could either be a faithful retelling of the story or an adaptation that makes the point that the story is trying to show. Allow your students to develop this. You may want to consider one of Jesus' Parables as there would be a lot of freedom with the story. Once they have the story, allow them to design what the main characters in the story would look like, story board the story so they get an idea on the action, and then have them lay out the book. If you keep the story black and white, you can reproduce the stories on a copier and created real books they can give out to their friends.
As to how to handle the project there are a couple of different ways to go. You could have all the students work on the same story or you could create an anthology of diffeerent stories where each student creates his own piece.
One thing you may run into is that some in your group are not interested or gifted in the area of cartooning, so you may want to have a backup project for them (painting, crafts, writing, drama, etc.)
As to formatting there are a couple of ways that you can go. Megazeen had a great minicomics project that they did a little while back that was simple to set up and the kids could really easily assemble their own comic and sell it to their friends. You could also do a digest size piece that could be run on a copier with 8.5 x 11 sheets folded in half. Lastly if you really want to give your kids something exciting, cafe press does actual books tha are free up front and then you just order them online. This can have a color cover and everything, but you need to be able to create the whole book as a pdf. If they come up with something really cool, I think this is the way I would go. The kids would get a real kick out of having their own graphic novel.
well there are some ideas. There are also a few technique type tutorials on my website, though I am quite confident that you can handle that type of stuff on your own.
I may post this to my A.M.O.K. (Arts Ministry Outreach for the Kingdom) blog.
God bless,
Dave Weiss
http://www.radicallyreal.com/amok
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I don't know how much help I can be in this area right now as my cartooning ministry to kids never reqally launched the way I hoped it might. (we area new church plant without a lot of kids and it was hard to get people to jump into it, with no relationship to the church.) I hope to try again soon, but it has been difficult to get it going.
As far as what to do with 5th and 6th graders, I think I would start by giving them a story from the word to read, do a study on it with them so they understand the dynamics. Next develkop a story line/script based around the scripture. This could either be a faithful retelling of the story or an adaptation that makes the point that the story is trying to show. Allow your students to develop this. You may want to consider one of Jesus' Parables as there would be a lot of freedom with the story. Once they have the story, allow them to design what the main characters in the story would look like, story board the story so they get an idea on the action, and then have them lay out the book. If you keep the story black and white, you can reproduce the stories on a copier and created real books they can give out to their friends.
As to how to handle the project there are a couple of different ways to go. You could have all the students work on the same story or you could create an anthology of diffeerent stories where each student creates his own piece.
One thing you may run into is that some in your group are not interested or gifted in the area of cartooning, so you may want to have a backup project for them (painting, crafts, writing, drama, etc.)
As to formatting there are a couple of ways that you can go. Megazeen had a great minicomics project that they did a little while back that was simple to set up and the kids could really easily assemble their own comic and sell it to their friends. You could also do a digest size piece that could be run on a copier with 8.5 x 11 sheets folded in half. Lastly if you really want to give your kids something exciting, cafe press does actual books tha are free up front and then you just order them online. This can have a color cover and everything, but you need to be able to create the whole book as a pdf. If they come up with something really cool, I think this is the way I would go. The kids would get a real kick out of having their own graphic novel.
well there are some ideas. There are also a few technique type tutorials on my website, though I am quite confident that you can handle that type of stuff on your own.
I may post this to my A.M.O.K. (Arts Ministry Outreach for the Kingdom) blog.
God bless,
Dave Weiss
http://www.radicallyreal.com/amok
