Puppet Dancing

There has been a fair amount of interest in Marionette puppets since Helen brought in her Dragon puppet from Singapore to share with the children for Chinese New Year. Since then the children have spotted our string puppets hanging above the mat and have asked to use them. Over the past few days the children have been having a go at getting the puppet to walk and dance. Kerry remembered seeing lots of marionettes in Prague while she was travelling and decided to share a short video clip of a puppet that she saw dancing. We also looked up a few other video clips on youtube including the Puppet show of "The Lonely Goatherd" from The Sound of Music. Plenty of puppet dancing was happening all around!

Link to The Lonely Goatherd puppet show from The Sound of Music

Link to the Muppet version of The Lonely Goatherd with Julie Andrews

A 'Kate' finger puppet

Kate today you worked really hard at the art table designing and creating a finger puppet. I watched you work as you developed the puppet from it's initial drawing and colouring in through to cutting it out and adding a space for your finger to go at the back. I could see that the puppet was of a girl and asked who it was, you said that it was you. I was very  impressed with the time and effort you put into creating it. Maybe you could use your finger puppet in our kindergarten puppet theatre I'd love to see a show about 'Kate' the puppet, please let me know if you decide to do one!

Well Done :-)

Raelene