Hudzaifah Aziz Raja Anis

Liza Adeline Ronacea

the production or creation of puppets or puppet shows
the art of manipulating puppets

A small figure of a person or animal, having a cloth body and hollow head, designed
to be fitted over and manipulated by the hand.
A figure having jointed parts animated from above by strings or wires; a marionette.
3A toy representing a human figure; a doll.

Art of creating and manipulating puppets in a theatrical show. Puppets are figures that
are moved by human rather than mechanical aid.
They may be controlled by one or several puppeteers, who are screened from the
spectators. Varieties include glove (or hand) puppets, rod puppets, shadow puppets,
and marionettes (or string puppets).
Puppetry had its beginnings in tribal society and has been part of every civilization. By
the 18th century it was so popular in Europe that permanent theatres were built for the
usually itinerant puppeteers.
When children act with puppets, the task is reduced to hand movements and speech.
There is no need to learn how to move about on the stage and be aware of other
players. The puppeteers need only deliver the lines at the appropriate time while
moving the puppet around in relation to the other puppets.
Furthermore, the act of making the puppets is very beneficial. The children
learn/improve their fine motor skills, and creative ability, and are learning socialisation
as they work on their puppets in a cooperative group.
In terms of understanding the story characters better, as they create their puppet they
are thinking about the attributes of their character.
Teachers can collect puppet-making materials themselves or ask students and parents to
do so. Many of the materials needed are everyday object that would be discarded anyway
such as :

Tools: scissors, tape, glue, paint, stapler
Bodies: fingers, hands, feet
Paper: construction, plates, bags, crepe, cups, envelopes, toilet paper rolls
Cloth: scraps, yarn, socks, gloves, mittens, hats
Sticks: tongue depressors, ice cream sticks, twigs, dowels, old wooden spoons
Fancy things: buttons, feather, beads, sequins, ribbons, old costume jewellery
Odds and ends: boxes, milk cartons, Styrofoam, cotton balls, ping pong balls, fruits and
vegetables, gourds, leaves, moss, pine cones, egg cartons, plastic bottles

Making puppets should be kept simple and left up to the students. They should use
their imaginations in creating puppets; their ideas are so much better than those of
adults.
Try these methods of making simple puppets:
Stick puppets : Attack a paper plate, cut-out, or Styrofoam cup to a stick and
decorate.
Paper bag puppets : Draw directly on the bag and decorate.
Hand puppets : Decorate a glove, mitten, sock, box, piece of fabric or handkerchief
wrapped with rubber bands, or simply an envelope over the hand.
Shadow puppets : Two-dimensional puppets can be made from heavy paper and
attached to a straw, and moved on an overhead projector, which will show the
silhouette, or a shadow, on a screen.

STICK PUPPETS
PAPER BAG PUPPETS HAND PUPPETS SHADOW PUPPETS
A puppet stage is nice but not necessary to fulfil the real purpose of puppetry: to
encourage childrens thinking, listening, talking and imagination as they create oral
texts to share with others.

You can, however, create a simple stage in one of these ways:
Turn a table on its side and drape it with a dramatic-looking cloth.
Have two reliable students hold a sheet or drape over a broomstick balanced on two
chairs.
Put a cardboard box on a table and seat the puppeteers behind it on low chairs.

LGA 3104 MODULE
GOOGLE IMAGE LOL