Ways of illustrating digital stories

We had a number of really excellent stories from teachers who discovered their writing gift within them. Something that fascinated me during this course was the ingenious ways that teachers used to illustrate their stories. Take a look!

Fabric with felt cut outs which were then captured with a camera as shown in  ‘Emily and the Seagull’.	Own photos with words at the side and a colourful background as shown in ‘There’s a zoo in my school’.
Some used royalty-free images from  the Internet such as in ‘The sheep who wanted to knit’.	Some asked different learners in their class to illustrate each page as shown in ‘Sisipho signs away’.
Some teachers asked their students  to create their own illustrations using Microsoft Paint such as in ‘Bunny  tells the children’.	Some asked their own family to do their illustrations
Some created templates and coloured  them in such as in ‘Khotso goes to the  zoo’.	Some asked a talented friend to do their illustrations for them such as in ‘The noise in the night’.
Some used royalty free pictures from  Pixabay such as ‘Angus the Dinosaur’.	Some created tasteful collages made from different materials such as in ‘Nonyane’.
Some used whole, original photos and pasted the words in a convenient spot  as in ‘On Safari’.	Some used commercially obtained illustration programmes owned by their schools such as in ‘Monsters under my bed’.

We are looking forward to the launch of the African Storybook Project website later this year.