Boredom Buster: Become a Puppeteer #2

In this part of making our puppet theater, we are priming and decorating our box, to give it the style that we desire.

Here we have primed our box with spray paint in a grey color, and my daughters are painting on the color they chose by mixing washable paint. 

We used a decoupage technique to apply the lettering.
We made the curtains for the front and back of the box by:
Measuring the cloth that we wanted on the box, and made two pieces the same size.  One of those we cut in half for the front.

I sewed up the rough edges on all sides.

I hot glued the top piece of the back to the top of the backstage.
 
I folded down the corners and hot glued the edges only.

Then I sewed a seem across the top of the curtain pieces for the front.

I ran a string through both front pieces and hot glued the string to the box.

I left the strings hanging to the side so that the curtains could be tied up during ShowTime.  Here it is finished.

Stay tuned for Boredom Buster: Become a Puppeteer #3, where we will be

• Showing different ways to make puppets.
  
• Ideas for what plays to choose for your shows.