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Magical Sea Puppet Show!
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:
- https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
- https://www.mbari.org/education/animals-of-the-deep/
2nd
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!
This activity will introduce you to the studio and build process, the available materials, and the studio themes. To do this, we will be researching and designing puppets that move like our favorite sea creatures. At the end of this session, you will put on a puppet show to show off your creations!