The
Puppet making workshop, held at Indus Early Learning Centre, RMV was a grand
success. Puppets were made from recycled paper, children utilised this
opportunity to narrate stories to their parents using their puppets which
delighted and entertained the parents. This helped the children enhance their
social, presentation & literacy skills.
Puppets engage and
delight children and they are always fascinated by puppets. One of the
Children’s Puppet Theatre Festivals was conducted at Indus Early Learning
Centre, RMV on Saturday, 22nd October, 2016.
As part of the
enriching day, Indus Early Learning Centre, RMV conducted a Puppet Making
Workshop which focused on using recycled material which came as a pleasant
surprise for the children and for some of the parents too. People from
different places made a visit to the Puppet Theatre Festival with their
children. Collaboratively, parents and children explored
and experimented puppet making which
was adventurous for parents and children alike.
The puppet making
was conducted age-wise and children of all ages engaged in making puppets and
using them in an interactive manner.
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Children between the age of 2 and 3 years’ made a girl and a boy puppet using ice cream sticks,
sticking wool as the puppet’s hair, googly eyes and also their dresses.
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Children,
4 years made sock ‘Sammy the Snake’ puppets, they stuck the cut outs of spots on
the sock and children stuck the snake’s tongue and googly eyes. Once the puppet
was completed and looked like a snake they put their hand in the snake puppet
and they were scaring their parents which was fun to watch.
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5 year
old children made puppets out of old CD’s. Children stuck googly eyes, ears and
nose on the CD and also designed shirts and pants for their Elephant puppets.
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6 and
above made tissue roll Parrot puppets. Children painted the tissue rolls and
fixed few feathers on top of the roll and stuck googly eyes, made the nose with
paint and they fixed two pipe cleaners and tied it to their hand, it was very
interactive and children thoroughly enjoyed making this puppet.
Children displayed their
puppets in the puppet theater standee. A few children utilized this opportunity
to narrate stories to their parents using their puppets which delighted and
entertained the parents. This helped the children enhance their social,
presentation and literacy skills.
Puppet making serves
different purposes and has many benefits such as it helps develop fine and
gross motor skills, encourage creative play, it also increases concentration.
Children can believe and relate to them as they
can enter and explore the fascinating inventive world that puppets create, a
wonderful interactive way to introduce narrative to even the most reluctant
reader and also encourages the quietist of children to communicate readily.
The highly
interactive puppet show was conducted by our specialist, Ms. Jyothi Kunjoor
from Kathalaya Puppeteers. She narrated stories from the Panchatantra for the
audience, in those stories animals were the main characters and made noises like
animals. She involved the children by asking them to imitate noises made by
animals. The children enjoyed the story and interacting with the puppeteer.
Apart from the
Puppet Making session and Puppet Show, a Parent Workshop on the benefits of
Puppet Play was conducted by our Head of Centre Ms. ,Nishita Israni. All the
events ensured an educative and entertaining day for the entire family and they
just loved it!
