Our Puppet Theatre Craft

Friday (15/10/2010)

a) My sample
* I brought in a simple puppet theatre made by myself. Then, a few kids volunteered to come forward to perform a short puppet story. They were Zhi feng, Chun Kit, Xing Tong, Yun Xuan and Yun Xin. They chose their favourite stick and finger puppets. They told about Captain Hook and Peter Pan's adventure. With this, the kids had an idea how we can make use of the puppet theatre.

b) Little Carpenters.
* We thanked Chun kit and Zhe Qing for bringing boxes for our puppet theatre craft. We discussed how ad what to do. 4 kids volunteered making the roof. They were Xing Tong, Yun Xin, Qian Joe and Yu Xuan. They drew a lot of hills similar to a castle shape and coloured them nicely. Jun Yu ad Zheng yuan helped to decorate the theatre wall. Zheng Yuan cut pieces of colour paper while Jun Yu pasted them. I was very happy to see Jun Yu being so serious at this. :) Wee Hong and Kwong Yong decided to decorate the inner part of the theatre. Meanwhile, the 4 year old kids preferred to draw pictures as wall decoartions. They drew beautifully. Xiang Wei asked if he could add lanterns to the theatre which I welcomed his idea. The others assisted at decoarating the front view of the box. That included the curtain and also its ribbon. Meawhile, Chun Kit preferred to decoarte the extra box into a treasure chest. He made a skull and bone picture the other day which he was happy to paste onto the box. Some kids inquired about the items to be kept in the chest. They were quite interested about the pirates as our phonics lesson is currently about "The Ship and Pirates".

c) Enquiries.
Chun Kit: Teacher, how can we go into this small box and perform?
Teacher: This is a small theatre for puppets. If we really are going to perform, we would have to get onto a big stage and have the backgrounds and props ready.
Zhe Qing: Teacher, when are we making our sock puppet?
Teacher: Only when everyone brings a clean sock. After playing with different puppets and activities, thenn we can decide on our desired stage performance. :)