Hi everybody! Because it is the Summer holidays, I thought I could come back to Canada and visit my friends in the forest and tell them all about my adventures of the past year. I took the opportunity to visit a special exhibition in Gatineau, right next to Ottawa. This exhibition is called MosaiCanada. I […]
In early September of 2016, the 26 kindergarten students of Edvig and Jessica of Pasteur Primary School in Bretagne (France) welcomed Beaverly, a Canadian cousin of their class mascot beaver Nestor! Beaverly was accompanied by Joelle and Frank from Ottawa, who also carried her suitcase full of books. Beaverly was going to share her love […]
The Animaplates cats wish you happy holidays with a song!
The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro mark the first time that the Games are held in South America. After the start of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, most Games took place in Europe. Maybe that was logical, since the tradition of a peaceful sport competition has its origin in ancient Greece, where one of the objectives […]
Although monkeys are apparently our ancestors (speaking in evolutionary terms), they often behave in ways that make us laugh. Have some fun making faces with the Animaplates monkey puppet in this video. Then, make the puppet and invent a silly story yourself! The Year of the Monkey Maybe it’s not surprising that the Chinese Horoscope […]
Here is a map showing the locations of the people who took up the challenge to build a Giant Nutcracker. Where available, I have added a picture of their nutcracker. If your nutcracker picture isn’t here yet, please leave a comment below and attach your photo! It had long be my dream to build a nutcracker […]
Ten years ago, an enterprising mother-daughter team (Carol Aebersold and Chanda Bell) created a story that explains how Santa Claus knows whether kids have been naughty or nice. This story was based on their own family Christmas tradition according to which each year, Santa sent an elf to their home to watch over the children […]
The giant nutcracker is not a project for the faint of heart. If you start it, you need all the help you can get. Fortunately, our members help each other out, and this article is intended to record that information so that everyone can benefit from it. Diameter mismatch Mop head hair Diameter mismatch Construction tubes are […]
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of the first world war, British artists created a unique piece of installation art. From July to November 2014, in the moat of the Tower of London, volunteers under the artists’ direction planted 888,246 ceramic poppies, one for each British or colonial soldier fallen in the War. […]
Do you remember the spider made with an egg carton? For the introduction to that video, I made the spider run around a pumpkin. Several people asked me how I had created that animation. So I decided to give you a behind-the-scenes look. Here is a video that reveals the techniques I used. You could […]
Beaverly is all upset because she thinks someone has eaten the Moon! She goes to see her friend, Mr. Owl, who explains to her what causes an eclipse of the Moon. During a lunar eclipse, you can’t see the Moon because it is in the shadow of the Earth for a few hours. You surely know that the Earth turns […]
It’s official: our beaver’s name is Beaverly. In this video, she shows us the nature park where she lives. This is where her adventures start… Parc Omega is an animal park located in Quebec, about half way between Ottawa and Montreal (in Canada).
