Puppet Making:
There are many ideas for making puppets. Here we will show you two ways that we made our puppets.
1. Paper lunch bags
2. From cut-outs printed online. (using the search for paper dolls, is an excellent way, that way your puppets even have costumes! Very Cool!)
Other ideas instead of puppets:
For play ideas we used books or nursery rhymes that the children loved.
Being Sunday, my oldest daughter even used her children’s bible to act out stories. For the most part though, the kids love to just make it up as they go along.
Simplicity is the key here, in order to keep the kids excited over the whole project, they need immediate results. Over complicating this would have only been a disappointment and a struggle for everyone. Sometime parents want projects to be perfect, and that's great. Finding out kids cannot wait that long for results, is a learning lesson.
Yes! I will admit, we tried to over complicate this in the beginning, by having too high of expectations with our goals (Paper Mache Puppets, Invitations, Title Boards, Theme for our theater). The kids on the other hand, felt like their teeth were being pulled out, when our project didn’t meet our vision. Taking a step back, and listening to the kids can help you really find their focus again. This is why I haven’t been able to finish this project until today.
The children are happy with the outcome, so much that they have been doing puppet shows all day since they woke up this morning.
I am so glad this project is complete. This project was for the kids and with it complete, we can all have the wonderful feeling of accomplishment. I would love to hear your comments, and any ideas you might want to share. Until next time, have a great day!
