Green Screen Magic
Janet Corder and Joan Gore

What Do You Know About Green Screen?
Green Screen in the Classroom
How can you make your lessons more meaningful? How can your students use Green Screen to demonstrate their learning? Using Green Screen in the classroom is easy, economical and appropriate for all grade levels and subject areas!
Green Screen allows you to create a video using an image or video for your background. If your students are studying the Pyramids of Egypt, they can create a video report with the Pyramids in the background. What about a weather report from the banks of the Nile River or on top of Mt. Everest? The possibilities are endless, so let's get started!
Classroom Ideas:
- Green Screen Fun by Cool Tools for School
Space Saving Green Screen Ideas for the Classroom - includes ideas and tutorials for different apps
- Green Screen in the Classroom - includes why you should use Green Screen and ideas for making a Green Screen
- Everything Green Screen - includes examples, tutorials, handouts, etc.
- Green Screen Videos by Wesley Fryer - Great ideas and resources
- Ask The Meteorologist: How Does The Green Screen Work?
- Give the Green Light With a Green Screen - several good ideas
What Happens When You Wear Green

- Here's what happens when a Meteorologist wears green! Check out the video here.
Green Screen App by DoInk - $4.99
Download the IOS App for Green Screen by DoInk here.
Tutorials
One Page Doink Reference Sheets
How to Use the Crop Tool in the 2019 Update
Using the Masking Tool to create a Living Museum
Instructions for doing Book Recommendations in the Library
How To Do Green Screen Photography on an iPad at School
“Overlays” – Making the most of the DoInk Green Screen app
Green Screen Instructions-Using DoInk App
Using DoInk and Green Screen in iMovie
Black and White Photos and Videos with DoInk
Tutorials by DoInk
How to Crop Images, Videos and Live Camera
How to Change Position, Size and Orientation of Image
How to Use the Mask Tool to Create a Moving Newspaper
How to Combine, Trim and Save to the Camera Roll Two Videos
How To Use All 3 layers in the Green Screen by DoInk app on the iPad
DoInk Blog
Getting Creative with the DoInk Green Screen App
Why and How to Green Screen in ClassTake Your iPad from Consumption to Creation with DoInk!
Pinterest Boards
DoInk Student & Teacher Examples
Young Readers on the Library Shelf
Retro TV - Create commercials for persuasive writing using a drawing of a retro TV
Think about those college and high school sports videos and pictures:
Muscular System - The student is holding a green piece of construction paper and moving it up and down in front of his body. The bottom layer is the image (jpeg) of the body, The middle layer is the recording of her moving the green sheet around to expose the image of the body.
The Masked Reader - students guess who the Reader is
McNair Elementary Holiday Card
3rd Grade Parochial School Example
Those Who Run in the Sky book trailer using origami
1st graders retelling fables using their own creations
Mercantile Store Supplies - Teacher giving an assignment to the class
1st graders/ DoInk Green Screen App/ 3 Little Pigs
Students Create Video for Their Principal
DoInk and Chatterpix Kids Book Report
Green Screen with Play-Doh and Green Paint
Green Play-Doh and a creative imagination work well together in green screen projects!
This tweet shows playing with green play-doh, iMotion HD App, iMovie & Googly Eyes.Another example here.
Check out this tweet to see how to use Play-Doh as a traveling green screen.
Here's an example of a little Phantom fun with Play-Doh and iMovie.
Pumpkin carving at a whole new level with Play-Doh and iMovie.
This Google Drive folder from @lfreegeography has several excellent examples.
Dryden Elementary Art Website
Mrs. Fuglestad, the art teacher at Dryden, has an incredible website that includes tons of ideas for using green screen. Yes, it is an elementary site, but students of all ages would enjoy many of her lessons. She shares the downloads for the lessons, step-by-step directions and student examples. View her STEAM Art Lessons and iPad Ideas for green screen activities.
Examples:
- The Snow Globe Effect is a fun way to teach transparency, animation, and layering with green screen. The downloadable file makes this project easy to complete!
- First graders made digital snowmen in Keynote then put them into a snow globe. Directions, downloadable files and examples can be found here.
- Moving Postcards use a Harry Potter styled effect to create a moving postcard. Check out the post here.
- Veggie Tales use the Do Ink Animation app to add eyes and mouths on objects and then make them talk.
Animation & Drawing by DoInk
The Green Screen Animation & Drawing App allows students and teachers to create advanced animations. These can then be imported onto the top layer of the DoInk Green Screen project. The drawing editor can be used to create vector artwork and frame-by-frame (flip book) animations. The composition editor can be used to combine your artwork and props from the DoInk prop library into more detailed scenes.
Animation & Drawing by DoInk ($4.99) compatible with Green Screen
Creativity Bundle by DoInk ($7.99) includes Green Screen and Animation & Drawing
Examples/Directions:
Vintage Illustration Animation
Dryden Art - Examples and Directions
Still Photo with Rotation on an Animation Path
Pinterest Boards
Tutorials:
Create an Animation in Two Minutes
DoInk Animation: Green Screen Tutorial
Sketch50: Animating Your Sketches in DoInk Animation App
How to Create an Animation Using Your Own Video Using DoInk Apps
How to Create a Background using Drawing Tools in Animation & Drawing app by DoInk on the iPad
How to Create a Frame-by-Frame Animation using the Animation and Drawing by DoInk app on the iPad
How to Make Objects "Dynamic" Using the Animation and Drawing by DoInk app
How to use the Trace Feature in the Animation and Drawing by DoInk app on the iPad
Instructions for Animations & Drawing (34-page manual)
How to Share Files from DoInk Animation & Drawing app to DoInk Green Screen app
Cue Prompter
Help your students deliver more professional videos.
TouchCast Studio
Tutorials
Examples
Veescope Live
Veescope Live Full is available for $3.99 here.
Tutorials
How to Use a Green Screen with Veescope
Green Screen Fun Winter Olympics Project Step-by-Step
Student Examples
Biography Projects
Mathematical Snakes and Ladders with Veescope Live and Thinglink
Green Screen in iMovie
- Insert a background photo/video.
- Insert a green/blue photo/video ... > Green/Blue Screen.
- Adjust Strength and Crop.
How to Use Green Screen in iMovie for iPad and iPhone / iOS
Green Screen Direction Cards for Keynote and iMovie
Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) shares a green screen infographic
Resizing and Positioning Green Screen Video In iMovie
Using white as the background color
WeVideo
Ideas for Green Screen Backgrounds
- Inexpensive bright green tablecloths from party or discount stores
- Bright green fabric or bulletin board paper
- Paint a pizza box bright screen to create a small green screen stage for small toys or puppets. Read more about using a pizza box here.
- Green file folder
- 10 Ideas for Mini Green Screens
Ideas to try
Flying an Airplane | Put Your Face on Anything! Cut out an oval from green cardstock and use it when you are filming. Now you can place your head on an astronaut's body, become an animal, etc. Let your imagination run wild! | Riding a Camel MT @Whitwood2WEDG: What are we doing? Riding a camel through the Egyptian desert of course! @DoInkTweets pic.twitter.com/RLSnLDFrTe #doink |
Put Your Face on Anything!
Riding a Camel
Pizza Box Green ScreenUse the green stir sticks from Starbucks or green straws for your props. The box also works as a great storage box for your small green screen props. | Pocket Green Screen Use a mint tin box as your green screen. | Diorama/Fairy Garden for Background Use a student-created diorama or fairy garden as the background image. |
Pizza Box Green Screen
Use the green stir sticks from Starbucks or green straws for your props.
The box also works as a great storage box for your small green screen props.
Pocket Green Screen
Diorama/Fairy Garden for Background
Historical WitnessDoInk Tweets @DoInkTweets Jul 12 MT @almeridoremi: Green screen idea: historical witness. "As a Loyalist, I was shook by Boston Tea Party" #merit17 | Taking a Field Trip to the Blood Stream | Taking a Field Trip to the Blood Stream |
Historical Witness
DoInk Tweets @DoInkTweets Jul 12
MT @almeridoremi: Green screen idea: historical witness. "As a Loyalist, I was shook by Boston Tea Party" #merit17
Taking a Field Trip to the Blood Stream
Taking a Field Trip to the Blood Stream
QR Codes for Library Books RT @smalchow: 3rd graders @PCSD_HC used @DoInkTweets to do book recommendations. We posted to @Seesaw, printed QR codes and are displaying QRs in the library for peers. #WantToReadAGoodBook #RaiderStrong #doink #greenscreen | Change the Ultra Key Settings If your character has the same color of clothes as your background, change the Ultra Key (green screen) options. Check out this tweet from @PJigles for directions. | Recreating Civil War PhotographsDoInk Tweets @DoInkTweets Jan 14 RT @ed_schreiber: 8th graders in Mr. Curcurio’s class using the green screen and @DoInkTweets to recreate civil war photographs. @fdlschools #doink #greenscreen |
QR Codes for Library Books
Change the Ultra Key Settings
Recreating Civil War Photographs
DoInk Tweets @DoInkTweets Jan 14
RT @ed_schreiber: 8th graders in Mr. Curcurio’s class using the green screen and @DoInkTweets to recreate civil war photographs. @fdlschools #doink #greenscreen
Make Yourself into an Ordered Pair (Graphing)5 Quick Projects That Make Use of Green Screen From Education Rickshaw | Signing the Weather ReportUsed the Green Screen to deliver a signed weather report! @DoInkTweets I created Weather & Family BSL Task Cards using iPhone weather screenshots and QR Codes that link to tutorial videos! | Pizza Box Creations |
Make Yourself into an Ordered Pair (Graphing)
5 Quick Projects That Make Use of Green Screen From Education Rickshaw
Signing the Weather Report
Used the Green Screen to deliver a signed weather report! @DoInkTweets I created Weather & Family BSL Task Cards using iPhone weather screenshots and QR Codes that link to tutorial videos!
Convert Older Tripods @jdgreen475: Perfect Recycling! Older unused tripods bought for VHS cameras, now repurposed with a $7.99 Amazon I-Pad Tripod Mount. Finally better recording by 2nd Graders. No bouncy people in videos. | "Carried Away" Learning About Butterflies @bhopteacher: Learning about butterflies in first grade! | A Different Type of Green Screen Your Green Screen doesn't need to be vertical and against a wall by Jonathan Wylie (@jonathanwylie) |
Convert Older Tripods
A Different Type of Green Screen
Students "Riding" a Horse Click here to view the video. | Book Review Click here to watch the video. | Green Screen with Green Paint Take a video of students painting with green paint and use a green screen app to make it look like they were painting a picture! See it in action here. |
Green Screen with Green Paint
Life is Like a Box of Chocolates What a fun project for Valentine's Day from @jessmsherman! | Pete the Cat | Green Cubes from Dollar Tree We love Dollar Tree! This post from goodwinnovate on Instagram shows how she uses the cubes for portable green screens. |
Green Cubes from Dollar Tree
goodwinnovate on Instagram shows how she uses the cubes for portable green screens.
Shoebox Diorama Use a shoebox for your diorama scene. See the video on this tweet. | Another Play Doh Example See the tweet here! | 10 ways to get started with Green Screen for under $5 Check out this tweet by Todd Burleson for some great ideas! |
10 ways to get started with Green Screen for under $5
The Green Screen Maker Space Project Book
Where We Shop
Disposable Green Plastic Tablecloths - Don't pay more than $1.00 for them! Available at many different stores in the party section.
Green Screen Backdrop - The bigger the better! Amazon
Green Fabric by the Yard - Walmart seems to have the best price
Green Leggings - Cut in half to cover your arms to use with puppets - Walmart in the ladies department
Green Straws - Starbucks
Green Garden Gloves - Dollar Tree, Walmart, etc.
Maskimals - available at Walmart for $19.98
Image and Video Resources
Pixabay - Find free images and videos that do not require attribution. They are also free for commercial use.
Pexels - Find free images that do not require attribution. They are also free for commercial use.
Pics 4 Learning - Pics4Learning is a user-supported image library that is safe and free for education.
14 Fantastically Free Sources For Stock Video Footage [Updated 2019] - Great list of FREE footage backgrounds
Photos for Class - Photos for Class allows users to search for creative commons photos for school with automatic citation.
Unsplash - Find free pictures from anywhere in the world
Remove the Background from an Image
Free & Easy Green Screen Editing – How to Make Transparent Backgrounds by Larissa ARadj
How to Find Free Images and Stock Videos for Classroom Projects
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