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Learning Objectives
Materials
Felt, fabric, wooden blocks, markers, beads, buttons, glue guns, feathers, pom poms, mini straws, popsicle sticks, toothpicks, foam, 8.5” x 11” white tag paper, 12” x 18” white tag paper, puppet theater (or a table if no puppet theater)
Vocabulary
Puppetry, emphasis, collaborate
Artists
Jim Henson, Shari Lewis
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Lesson
Students are to create their own finger puppets and put on a puppet show in groups of two with collaborative backdrop. Have students pick out a sheet of felt, if more than one student wants the same color cut in half. Ask if students have used glue guns before and explain glue gun safety anyway. With everyone seated at their desk, demonstrate how to create the body of the puppet using scissors, felt, and glue gun and have students follow along. Show how to put on heads. Now that we have our basic body, ask students to go up to the materials table and pick out the fabrics and other materials they might want to use, and ask to share material with their classmates if more than one students wants the same material.
Ask students to think about what sort of personality their character has, what’s their background, where are they from, are they mean, are they nice – this will be important when we put on our puppet performances!
When students have finished their puppets, will divide class into groups of two (or three if necessary) according to seating positions (or numbered popsicle sticks). Will ask students to think of a scenario in which their two characters meet - where would it take place? What might the environment be? Will they get along? Hand out large and small pieces of white tag paper, small for writing down ideas or sketches, large for the backdrop. Ask students to collaboratively draw the backdrop together and create a 1-2 minute puppet performance for the class. Videotape.
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