WHAT WE ARE DOING

WHY WE ARE DOING IT

This activity guides students through researching, designing, and creating sea creature-inspired puppets using recycled materials, culminating in a collaborative puppet show.

To go through the design process by fostering creativity, collaboration, and communication skills, as well as "making" skills.

ACTIVITY MATERIALS

In this Intro Activity, you will begin to immerse yourself in the wonderful world of sea life, learn about the materials you have to make things in the studio, and put on an epic puppet show.

Take this opportunity to learn about sea creatures that are unfamiliar to you and have fun making wild and imaginative sea-inspired puppets!

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

Investigating Sea Creatures

Summoning a Sea Creature

Creating Your Sea Creature

Documentation

The Sea Puppet Show

1st

Investigating Sea Creatures

؜Choose one of the sea creatures from one of those websites:

1. https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
2. https://www.mbari.org/education/animals-of-the-deep/

2nd

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Summoning a Sea Creature

Look for materials that you could use to create a puppet that moves like your deep-sea creature. Keep an eye out for materials with interesting colors, textures, and shapes. Recycled materials are the only ones available!

Based on the materials you have gathered, sketch out a design plan for your puppet. Try drawing your puppet design at different stages of motion and use arrows and labels to make your drawing clear. Your creature model should be around the size of your hand. When done, take a photo of your sketch.

3rd

Summoning a Sea Creature

As a group, we will go through a few safety tutorials and demonstrations for putting different materials together.

Next, we'll start by laying out the materials in the way they will go together to become your sea creature puppet! If you need to cut anything, mark it with a pencil or marker along the line where you want to cut.

You have 30minutes! GO!

4th

Documentation

Take a few photos of your sea creature model along with the sketches

5th

The Sea Puppet Show

Practice your puppeteering. Remember, this is a delicate operation: you are trying to breathe life into your creation!

Everyone gather together and put on a collaborative puppet show. You might want to record it for posterity!