Pop-up Puppets is an open kid’s workshop on puppet construction and manipulation, using recycled materials finishing with a puppet show and filming. (low tech filming style – suitable for uTube).
Explore three dimensional sculptural techniques
Animate the inanimate
Create a Pop-up Puppet show for UTube
The children will give their puppet an identity while they create it. We will make up and present puppet stories using real-life stories.
Using traditional stories and adding an Australian twist. Cardboard roll lizard, dancing sugar cane, Dugong, cassowary, snakes, spiders, bats.
We will be focussing on tropical Australian animals and local myths.
We will be working with recycled objects – packaging.
The children will are guided in basic sculpture techniques – imaginative use of available materials, strong construction and working in 3 dimensions.