1) This document provides instructions for creating a basic "Marauders Map" animation using PowerPoint 2010. 2) It describes how to add a background texture, insert text and shapes to represent rooms, add footprints, and animate the footprints to move automatically from one to the next. 3) Tips are provided for extending the animation by duplicating slides and using transitions to move between slides without needing to click to advance.

1. How to make a ‘Marauders Map’ like
the one in Harry Potter using
PowerPoint 2010 animation
Ms Rhys-Jones, Hiltingbury Juniors

2. Set the background
• Open a NEW SLIDE from • In FILL choose PICTURE
the HOME tab at the OR TEXTURE
top left of the screen.
• Click TEXTURE and
• Choose the BLANK choose the first
layout. background papyrus.
• Right-click anywhere on • Select APPLY TO ALL and
the slide. ok.
• Select FORMAT
BACKGROUND

3. It should look like this.

4. Insert some text
1. Choose TEXT BOX from 3. Highlight the text and
the INSERT tab at the under the HOME tab
top left of the screen. select the font and
change it to
2. CLICK ANYWHERE on ‘Blackadder’ and the
the slide and start size to about 54.
typing ‘Marauders
Map’. 4. Click and drag the
textbox to where you
want it to be.

5. Marauders Map
It should look like this.

6. Insert a room
1. Choose SHAPES from 3. You can change the
the INSERT tab at the appearance of the shape
top left of the screen. by right-clicking on the
edge of the shape and
2. CLICK ANYWHERE on the select FORMAT SHAPE or
slide and draw a box moving the tiny yellow
from the BASIC SHAPES diamond.
4. Try it and see if you can
make the box have a
narrower black or dark
brown outline.

7. Marauders Map
It should look like this.

8. Insert more rooms and label them
1. Choose Text box from the
INSERT tab at the top left of 5. Right-click and select GROUP
the screen.
6. You can now highlight this
2. CLICK ANYWHERE inside the shape in the same way again,
box you drew and type in a hold down ctrl and c, then click
label – for example, ‘Kitchen’ ctrl and v to duplicate the shape
a couple of times. Drag these to
3. When happy with it, click wherever you want them on the
outside the shape and hold
down while you drag over the slide.
shape and the text box
together. 7. Try it and see if you can change
the text labels and sizes for
some more rooms.
4. Release the button and move
pointer back over shape until
it turns into a cross with 4
arrows.

9. Marauders Map
Kitchen
Dining room
It should look like this.
Slytherin common room
Headmasters office

10. Insert some footprints
1. Choose Picture 1. Use the markers to
from the INSERT resize the image and
move to wherever you
tab at the top left wish on the slide.
of the screen.
2. Select an image 2. Repeat with the other
footprint and then use
from the the select, ctrl + c and
Marauders map ctrl + v technique to
folder and double insert another two
click on it. footprints.

11. Marauders Map
Kitchen
Dining room
It should look like this.
Slytherin common room
Headmasters office

12. Animate the footprints
1. Select the first footprint 4. Make sure you are on the
by clicking on it. animation tab.
2. Choose fade from the 5. Click on the second footprint
Animation tab at the and look for the box at the
top left of the screen. top right that says ‘start’.
3. Repeat for each of the 6. Change ‘on click’ to ‘after
footsteps. previous’
4. If you play the slide 7. The footprints should now
now, the footprints will appear automatically after
appear one by one as each other.
you click.

13. Marauders Map
Kitchen
Dining room
It should look like this.
Slytherin common room
Headmasters office

14. Cheats way to extend the animation
3. What effects can you
1. Select the footprints create?
and use ctrl + c
followed by ctrl + v to 4. You can even duplicate
repeat as many times entire slides and use the
as you wish. transition tab to
automatically move from
2. You may need to play one slide to the next to
around with the order make your animation even
of animation in the longer without needing to
animation tab, or try keep clicking.
making some fade
out. 5. Have fun!