Task 3: making puppets to be used for certain activities in the class.

Task 3: making puppets to be used for certain activities in the class.
Well, Ive never used them in class before but I liked the idea of the stick puppets so much. I was browsing the Internet and I came through a number of pictures . I thought of a couple of activities for the attached pictures.
For the first picture I think they can be made after a lesson involving animals. Students can make the characters of the story and simply hold their stick puppets during acting out the story or reading it out.
As for the second picture I believe it can be used in a more fun and creative way. Students can be asked to draw themselves on the sticks in a fun way. They can draw themselves with superpowers like their favorite cartoon characters or simply by having the qualities they dream of (for example being too tall or having long pink colour , etc). This puppet will stay with them for the rest of the term and it can be used during circle time. Students will create a background and life for their puppet. They can either talk about themselves or their puppet in the circle time. This is particularly useful for the shy students who don't like to share their personal life with anyone or who thinks their life is embarrassing. So thereally is no problem to say that the puppet is afraid of of cats or that it had a fight with its sister last night.

Comments

  1. Silvia Montufo UrquízarApril 24, 2016 at 3:21 AM

    So nice! Congrats!!!

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  2. Carol FerlineApril 28, 2016 at 11:56 AM

    I loved your ideia! I will draw my puppet hahaha....

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  3. Juan UribeApril 28, 2016 at 12:20 PM

    Hi Maha! 

    Loved reading the discoveries you have made. I believe stick puppets are the easiest to make and the best to use with very young learners. There are so many ideas and projects of puppeteachers around the world on the internet. 

    Yes! Make them keep the puppets at school and use them over and over. Making their own puppets is certainly interesting. Making students use puppets gets them talking specially when it happens in small groups. 

    Way to go, puppeteacher Maha!!!

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