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Legends & Lore: It's All About Puppets
This Legends and Lore site offers fun and entertaining crafts activities involving the making of puppets.
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Groundhog Day 2010 [Pdf]
Designed for Grades K-8, this teaching guide is chock-full of ideas for celebrating Groundhog Day, with activities like making shadow puppets, examining weather lore and studying cloud formations.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place: Puppy Puppet
Make a puppy stick puppet using the template and instructions provided.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Spring at the Smithsonian: An Incipient Case of Puppetmania
A useful article outlining the important features of a puppet and how to successfully use them in your classroom as a learning tool. A fun look at puppets around the world is also included.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Activity Starters: Peg + Cat
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience. This site includes 5 Peg + Cat activity starters: Conversation Cards:...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Listen to Me Tell You the Story
Students will listen to familiar stories and choose their favorite story among them. Then students will make puppets for each of the main characters from their favorite story. Students will share a puppet show to a small audience.
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Pbs Learning Media: Donkey Hodie: Adventures in Someplace Else
In this activity, children can create puppets of Donkey and her pals and play about their adventures in Someplace Else, or you can make up your own stories.
TES Global
Tes: The Tempest 2010 Teacher Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This teacher resource pack is designed for use with Royal Shakespeare Company and Little Angel Theatre 2010 production of The Tempest. It is for use with younger students and offers detailed information...
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Puppetry Traditions Around the World
Discover how puppetry differs around the world. Follow the links to over 10 countries and see traditions of making, viewing, and using puppets in different cultures.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Costume Box Digital Game
In this digital game, children can dress up all their favorite friends from Peg + Cat. Get Peg, Cat, and friends all dressed up in the silliest of outfits, of course! Shuffle up the clothes they're wearing by clicking the arrows. Also...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Arts and Craft
Join Daniel Tiger and his friends in this collection of fun, printable activities! From creating puppets and Kindness Loops (just like in the show!) to making thoughtful cards for friends, these worksheets will encourage your child's...
Curated OER
Puppetry Traditions Around the World
Discover how puppetry differs around the world. Follow the links to over 10 countries and see traditions of making, viewing, and using puppets in different cultures.
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: How Ventriloquism Works
My son and I have a pet orangutan named Kevin. He talks to us almost every day and usually asks for a banana. All right, he's not a pet, he's a large hairy puppet, and I make him talk using the trick of ventriloquism. But it's pretty fun...
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Dltk: Bird Crafts for Kids: Bald Eagle Activities for Children
Need ideas for making bald eagle crafts? Get your ideas and directions here .. make a bald eagle paper bag puppet, a wreath, or even a toilet paper eagle. Suitable for younger students.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Storytelling in Ritual and Performance in Bali
Balinese stories are continually told and retold. The Kayonan is the first and last puppet seen in the Balinese wayang shadow theater. As it dances, it symbolizes the living tradition of storytelling that deeply explains and entertains,...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids
Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Teeth Identification in Omnivores, Herbivores and Carniv
In this lesson plan, students make puppets out of paper bags and use corn to give their animal (dinosaur, raccoon, etc.) the correct type of teeth based on the animal's diet.
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