Shadow Puppets Part 2

This past Saturday, we began to work on the characters for our shadow puppets. We are using two different process in making our puppets. The first being a basic black silouhette. This process is great for doing scenery because it is able to be block out. There are a few students using this type of puppet making to create dark or evil characters. The second method we are using is with acetate. The students are able to add much more detail as well as color to their characters. Using acetate enables the students to recreate their original characters from their books exactly how it is seen on the pages. This method is cool because you are able to make moving joints by inserting a brand on the part you would like to move. Next week we pan to finish the scenery and props and possibly do a dry run. We did not encounter to many problems with the students grasping this activity. The main problems came with keeping a few students on task with what the rest of the class was doing.