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Crankie Contraptions: Telling Stories with Screen Machines

Artist

FutureMakers

Program Type

Workshop

A one-time, in-classroom workshop (45 to 60 minutes) for K to 8 learners where each learner builds their own folding cardboard story machine with a hand-cranked paper scroll, then plans and illustrates a story (a sequence or a narrative) that plays across the screen like a movie, a theater stage, or a phone display. Learners experience the engineering design process (ask, imagine, plan, create, improve) and the storytelling arc (character, setting, beginning, middle, end). Each learner takes their finished Crankie home.

Audience Limit

20-25 students per class

Program Length

45-60 minutes

Technical Requirements

Each Crankie kit goes home with the learner.
Confirm class size at booking so the correct number of kits is ordered.
Preferred classroom setup: tables grouped (3 to 4 learners per table), with scissors, pencils, and art supplies staged at each table before the TA arrives.
The TA brings a pre-built example Crankie with a finished story, the slide deck, printable Story Sketch Handouts, and extra scroll sheets for re-tries.