About a week ago Eva and I got a new iPad App called Ansel and Clair’s Adventures in Africa. Instantly the app became a hit in our house. I knew that Eva would enjoy it because the App had non stop action and beautiful graphics. Eva is in the “Why” stage of childhood. Her answer to every question is pretty much always “Why”. Or rather she will ask Why does this do that or why does that mean this. She is very inquisitive.
The main character of the App is Ansel. Ansel is a Virtoosian travel photographer here to take photos of various African animals and sights. Clair is a robotic travel guide who has extensive knowledge of Earth and all the creatures and places on Earth. Together Ansel and Clair have to journey to the The Serengeti, The Sahara and The Nile. They are in search of pieces to their space cruiser Marley. As the child explores each different place they find out about animals, the weather, famous structures and more all while searching all over for pieces of the ship and taking photos of all that they see.
One of my great Twitter Followers saw my Use Every Crayon In The Box Experiment and took the challenge. Vagabond Blue (@vagabond_blue) took part in this experiment and made a great image using all of the crayons in the box. Here is the image vagabond_blue created. Use Every Crayon in the Box: The Experiment. If you are going to do the experiment please let me know and I may feature you on BenSpark.com.
Would You Like to Recreate The Experiment?
* Get a box of brand new crayons.
* Remove the Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet Brown and Black crayons.
* Get a coloring page (or blank sheet of paper if you are really serious)
* Get a stopwatch or something to tell you when a minute is up. The stopwatch on the iPod or iPhone works great for this. Set the stopwatch for a minute.
* Start the countdown and grab one crayon at random.
* Color with that crayon for one minute.
* Repeat until every crayon has been used.
I’d love to see your finished products. Shoot the box of crayons before you start, shoot the coloring page or blank sheet of paper too. Then take some photos during the experiment, or have someone shooting photos of you doing this. Then take photos of the box when you are done and also take a photo of the finished product.
