Painting of Tiger Puppet

Thursday (04/01/2010)

a) Tiger heads and body. b) The puppet holders. c) Recording activities.

a) Tiger heads and body.
· The crumpled round paper balls are the tiger heads. The kids took turn to paint them in orange. They were excited but when they had to paint the other side, some bravely held with their hands. Some just roll them on the newspaper so that they could paint the other side….haaaaa!
· Then, the kids who were in-charged of decorating the body (namely the cloth) was called individually to glue the glitterings. I used the glue gun while they held the glitterings and pressed them to the cloth. Some other kids volunteered to assist.
· Wei Hong was creative at bending the glitterings into other shapes such as “love” and “stars”…….wow! the other kids started imitating from him. Soon, we had so many patterns to choose from.

b) The puppet holders.
· Yun Wen suggested that each puppet has 2 holders rather than 1 as in the sample model. This would avoid the strings or threads from being tangled.
· Thus, we pasted 2 pieces of cardboard as one to make them stronger. Then, the kids took turn to paint them black on both sides.
· Meanwhile, the others cut the black stripes for the tigers’ face.

c) Recording activities.
· We recapped what the kids had done for this puppet activity. Thus, we had to draw and label them into our record book.
· Some remembered that Wei Jun, Zhi Feng, Shi Jie, Xing Tong, Zheng Yuan, Jun Hong, Foo Soon, Jing kai and also Shi Jie crumpled the newspaper for making the heads. Binding them with masking tape was the challenging part….:)
· We remembered how Zhe Qing, Devin and Jun Yu decorated the cloth. Then, some other friends including Wee Hong, Kwong Yong and Devin came to assist the design.
· Then, there was the painting. Not forgetting how some friends cut the word, “chun”.
· Each kid recorded what they could remember the most and they were encouraged to write the words.
· The labeling needed more time to establish proper handwriting. Hopefully, when their drawings got better, so will their handwriting.