(Picture above: Rigmore is no longer able to resist the call of her Scandinavian ancestors...)Just a quick blog to tell you about the father's activity day at Park Children's Centre in Stonehouse on Saturday, 11th October. The event made full use of the Epson Picture Mate (PM260 to its friends) - this gives instant photographs on glossy photo paper. The children always love to see the machine in action! We took portrait photographs of the dads, printed out using the Picture Mate, cut them out & stuck them to card dollies that the children had made earlier.
The great thing about the Picture Mate is that it can provide instant results. We have lots of ideas where this could be used, specifically on the new FLLN programme written around the BBC RAW storybook 'Max and Lara's Amazing Travelling Circus'. Just think, you could produce a whole series of sequenced pictures to use in a storybook, taken and printed in the same session!
Disadvantages? Picture Mate seems to eat print cartridges (maybe 30-35 photos per cartridge). Also, our original PM seems to have given up the ghost after 2 outings (do you think some little angel might have fed it a wax crayon when we weren't looking?)
So, the Picture Mate is very useful, generates exciting ideas but can be expensive and need careful maintenance. Which reminds me, thanks to Jane C-D for getting me up and running again on the blog.
2 comments:
YAY! quite agree about the Picture Mate (and the picture, mate!) Sounds like you had a fun day - always good to come away from these things with more ideas than you had when you started, isn't it?!
Can we have a set of AdEd puppets? (Or have we got a set already.....)
Does this mean that in future you'll be able to use the new PoGos to print out sticky label pitures??
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