How to Animate: Get Your Kid Making, Not Just Watching

Imagine your kid running up to show you a video they made. A little paper character walking across the screen. "Look what I did!" Not a clip they scrolled past. One they built, frame by frame, with their own hands.

Imagine them setting up a LEGO scene and animating it, lost in it for an hour. No notifications. No endless feed. Just focus, a problem to solve, and the quiet pride of figuring something out.

Imagine the screen becoming a tool they create with, not just one they stare into. Same phone. Completely different afternoon. That's the whole idea behind this little book.

A pencil. A path to follow. Their LEGO bin. The method is exactly the same, and what they bring to life is completely up to them.

A Pencil

Follow a Path

Their LEGO

Doesn't Know Where to Start? Start With the Fun Stuff

Animation looks like it needs a studio, special software, and years of lessons. It doesn't. Your kid doesn't need to draw, code, or buy a thing. They need a coin, a piece of string or tape, and the phone that's already in the house.

And it's the opposite of passive scrolling, or letting an app spit out a video for them. Your child moves a real object a tiny bit, takes a photo, and moves it again. Hands on the table. Brain fully switched on.

Most lessons start with theory and lose kids in the first ten minutes. This one starts with the fun part: a coin swinging on a string, filmed and playing back like real animation, in the very first sitting. The payoff comes fast, and that's what makes them want to do the next one.

Who They're Learning From

9M+ followers 15 years animating LAIKA: Kubo & the Two Strings Nike · Google · LEGO · Apple

Kevin Parry

Stop-motion animator & video wizard

Your kid won't be learning from a faceless app. They'll be learning from Kevin Parry, a stop-motion animator with 15 years in the industry who animated on LAIKA's feature films, including Kubo and the Two Strings, and has made hand-built videos for Nike, Google, LEGO, and Apple.

More than 9 million people follow his handmade animation across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. There's a good chance your kid has already seen and loved his work.

Kevin built this activity book to teach the way he wishes someone had taught him: by actually doing it, starting with a coin and a piece of string, in language a complete beginner (or a curious 9-year-old) can follow on their own.

This is the animator behind the book. Millions already follow his work. Now your kid gets to learn the actual craft from him.

Introducing: How to Animate

How to Animate is a printable, do-it-yourself stop-motion activity book. Instead of dense text or lecture videos, it gives your kid clever printable templates. They print a page, set a household object on it, and follow the guide to move it frame by frame. The phone does the filming. Their hands do the animating.

It's simple enough for a child to follow on their own, and satisfying enough that you'll want to sit down and do it together. It quietly teaches the real principle behind good animation, timing and spacing, the difference between movement that looks stiff and movement that feels alive.

Print the templates as many times as you like, forever. Buy it once and your whole family can use it again and again.

What's Inside

What They'll Make, Step by Step

Five hands-on activity sets. They'll be animating in the very first one.

Activity Set 1

Set Up in 10 Minutes

Everything they need before the first frame, all free or already in the house.

The free phone app that turns any phone into a stop-motion studio (no paid software)
How to hold the phone steady with things you already own
A simple lighting trick that makes the kitchen table look like a real set
They capture their first frame by the end of this set

Activity Set 2

The First Move: A Swinging Coin

A coin, a piece of string, and a printed guide. This is the moment it clicks for them.

Animate a coin swinging on a string by following the printed guide, dot by dot
How still photos turn into movement, and the proud grin when it plays back
The simple rhythm that keeps the swing smooth, not jerky
They finish with a real, looping clip they made themselves

Activity Set 3

The Secret: Timing & Spacing

The professional principle behind every great animation, made kid-simple.

Why evenly spaced movement looks robotic, and the small change that fixes it
How spacing creates the feeling of weight and speed
Printable spacing guides that do the thinking for them
The same idea the pros at LAIKA and Pixar use, in a form a kid can feel right away

Activity Set 4

Bring an Everyday Object to Life

A pencil, a sock, a toy. Give it a personality and watch it act.

The two simple moves that make an object look like it has a mind of its own
How to give a plain object a "character" so it's fun to watch
Easy tricks for making something hop, walk, or react
They animate a household object from start to finish

Activity Set 5

Make a Clip Worth Showing Off

Turn the practice into something they're proud to send to grandma.

Simple backdrops that make a clip look finished
How to loop it so it plays again and again
Saving and sharing it safely with family
Where to take it next once they've caught the bug

Included Free Today

3 Free Bonuses

Free Bonus A bell pepper with a stop-motion face, the kind of everyday object you can bring to life

$17 value. Yours free.

The Household Objects Cheat Sheet

No more "I don't know what to animate." A printable guide to the best everyday things to bring to life, so they always have an idea ready.

The objects that are easiest for a beginner to animate
What makes an object read clearly on camera
A starter list they can grab from any room

Free Bonus Kevin Parry transformed into a banana, one of his viral in-camera illusions

$19 value. Yours free.

The Trick Shot Decoder

Your kid has probably already seen these tricks. 9 million people have. This decoder reveals how three of Kevin's favorite video illusions actually work, then walks your kid through filming their own.

Make a toy vanish, a snack multiply, or themselves teleport across the room
Each trick is one printed page and takes about 15 minutes
Uses the same frame-by-frame thinking they just learned in the book

Free Bonus A finished rainbow stop-motion cake, the kind of creation worth a family premiere

$15 value. Yours free.

The Family Premiere Night Kit

They made a movie. Give it an opening night. A printable kit that turns their first finished clips into a family event they'll beg to repeat.

Printable movie tickets, a "Now Showing" poster, and a director's name card
A simple 15-minute run of show: dim the lights, play the clips, take a bow
Turns "look what I made" into a memory, not just a file on a phone

Everything for $27

How to Animate normally sells for $47.

Right now, during the digital edition launch, you get the complete activity book, all five activity sets, every printable template, and all three bonuses for $27. That's less than a movie night, for something they can do again and again. This is the launch price, and it goes up after launch.

✓ The complete How to Animate activity book + printable templates $47
✓ Bonus: The Household Objects Cheat Sheet $17, FREE
✓ Bonus: The Trick Shot Decoder $19, FREE
✓ Bonus: The Family Premiere Night Kit $15, FREE
✓ Lifetime access. Print the templates forever. included

Total value ~~$98~~

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Maybe You're Thinking...

"Is this just more screen time?" No. The phone only films. The actual making happens with their hands, on the table, with real objects. It's screen-light and brain-on, the opposite of passive scrolling.

"Will my kid actually stick with it?" They make something real in the very first sitting. That fast payoff is what hooks them. Most kids finish one clip and immediately want to make another.

"Isn't it easier to just let an app or AI make a video?" Easier, sure, and they learn nothing. This builds a real skill, plus patience and focus they'll carry into everything else. What they make is unmistakably theirs.

"I'm not techy. Can I help them?" You don't need to be. The printable templates do the teaching. Most kids run with it after the first activity, and you get to be the proud audience.

30-Day Guarantee

They Make Something, or You Pay Nothing

Get instant access today and try it together. Print a template, grab a coin, and follow along. If within 30 days your kid hasn't made something that makes them light up, or it just isn't the right fit, send one email and you'll get every cent back within 24 hours. No questions, no hoops. The only thing you risk is an afternoon you'll both remember.

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Surprise Bonus A finished LEGO stop-motion scene by Kevin Parry

$29 value. Free for the next 60:00

Their First LEGO Movie

The activity book teaches them to animate. This printable mini-guide answers the question every kid asks next: "Can I make a real movie now?" It walks them through a short LEGO film with a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Plan a 30-second story with a one-page, three-box storyboard
The minifigure walk, the move that makes brick films look pro
Simple camera tricks for chases and crashes (no actual crashes)
Takes them from "I animated a coin" to "I made a movie" in a weekend

When the timer hits zero, this bonus quietly comes off the page. If you can still see it, you're not too late.

Questions, Answered

Best for ages 8 and up. Younger kids can absolutely do it with a grown-up helping, and there's no upper limit. The technique is simple to start and deep enough that professionals use it on feature films, so it grows with your child.

An instant digital download: the full activity book, every printable template, and all three bonuses. Open it on a phone, tablet, or computer. Print the templates at home, or film straight off the screen if you don't have a printer.

No. The phone is only the camera. The real work happens with their hands and real objects on the table. It's hands-on and focused, the opposite of passive watching or scrolling.

A phone or tablet, and ordinary household things: a coin, string or tape, paper, a pencil, maybe some LEGO. A printer helps for the templates but isn't required. The only app needed is free.

Only if you want to (and many parents do, because it's genuinely fun). The templates are written so a kid can follow along on their own after the first activity.

The complete opposite. This is handmade stop-motion. Your kid moves a real object a little at a time and photographs each step. Nothing is generated for them. The whole point is building a real, hands-on skill.

The first sitting. Activity Set 2 walks them through animating a swinging coin from start to finished clip, usually within the first hour.

Yes, as many times as you want, forever. One purchase covers the whole family, every animation, for good.

It's a great one. It's screen-light, creative, and reusable, and it comes from a real animator kids admire. Buy it, and you can hand it off or do the first activity together.

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Give Them the Afternoon They'll Remember

I still remember the first time I made something move that wasn't supposed to. A little object on my desk, suddenly alive, because of me. Every kid deserves to feel that at least once. If this book helps your child feel it, and maybe pulls you both away from the feed for an afternoon, then it did exactly what I built it to do.