In November, Second Graders studied fairy tales as part of their classroom curriculum. I thought it would be fun to connect their fairy tale knowledge with some shadow puppetry! I chose to focus on the story of The Three Little Pigs. We talked about characters and settings and made a list of all of the important parts of the story. Then, students chose a character or part of the setting to make into a shadow puppet.
Stay tuned: after vacation we'll be putting on a shadow puppet play! I'll include the link here.
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| Little Pig Shadow Puppet |
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| Straw House |
Some essential questions that students are answering through shadow puppetry include:
What is a shadow, and what do you need to make a shadow?
What are the parts of a shadow puppet and what are the purposes of the parts?
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| Shadow Puppet Parts |
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| Shadow puppets: their parts and purposes |
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| Big Bad Wolf |
We also incorporated some scientific/artistic vocabulary and are adding parts to our
opaque puppets that are
translucent or
transparent.
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| Brick House with Translucent Window |
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| This happy piggie just makes me smile! | | | | |
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