Deposit on a Shadow Puppet Array
Shadow puppets are an elderly Craft fashion, consisting of silhouettes projected from wood or cardboard figures onto a fair folio or Shade. Some folks are besides able to construct shadow puppets with isolated their hands, bending them into shapes whose silhouettes resemble rabbits or other animals. You can situate on a shadow puppet panoply identical easily, and building the page and puppets makes a excessive arts and crafts lifetime for kids.
Instructions
1. Intersect the top and backside flaps off of a square cardboard box, then shorten off one of the four sides. The remaining three sides Testament configuration the theatre for your shadow puppet pageant.
2. Section a gap in the central panel of the box. This Testament be your "event." You should allowance an still contour of approximately 3 or 4 inches encompassing the gap.
3. Handle scissors to chop a quantity of achromatic tracing paper Broad Sufficiently to fit over the gap in the box. It should overlap the gap by at least an inch or so on all sides. Tracing paper is translucent Sufficiently To admit the shadow puppets to demonstrate up great. (It's harder to receive the deserved corollary with thicker paper.)
4. Stretch the tracing paper over the "leaf" gap and tape it to the sides with masking tape. The paper should be extremely taut, with no droops or sags in it. You at once hold a Shade onto which you can project the shadow puppets.
When viewed from the front, your puppets' silhouettes will now appear as dark figures on the surface of the stage.15. Divvy up the puppets among your puppeteers and practice the puppet show you intend to put on, noting how your puppets appear and whether they will need to be adjusted or reconstructed.
6. Decorate the front of the stage with stickers or magic markers. This step isn't necessary, but it's a lot of fun and can get the kids involved if adults have been doing the cutting.
7. Decide what kind of puppet show you're going to put on. That will determine what kind of puppets you will make and what kind of scenery you need. Stick with modest shows for your first few tries: fairy tales like "The Three Little Pigs" or "The Billy Goats Gruff" are good starters.
8. Trace out the shape of each puppet and piece of scenery on a piece of tracing paper. You will need to divide each puppet into several pieces, one for each part of the puppet's body you want to articulate (such as the head, legs or arms). Keep in mind that these will be silhouettes and will most likely be viewed from the side. In addition, each piece of a given puppet should overlap slightly in order to fit together.
9. Transfer the pattern of each puppet and piece of scenery from the tracing paper to a piece of construction paper.
10. Cut each pattern out of the construction paper carefully.
11. Make a small hole in each part of the puppet--usually at the joints where the head and/or the arms will move-- and connect the separate parts together with paper fasteners. You should now have a simple puppet composed of several parts joined together to make a complete figure.
12. Attach a piece of dowel (about 1 foot in length) to each piece of the puppet using glue or Velcro. The dowels will allow you to move and manipulate the puppets.
13. Attach any scenery to the stage, using masking tape to fix it in place.
14. Turn down the lights in the room and shine a flashlight from behind the theater onto the stage.5. Tape a thin dowel rod to the inside top of your stage. It will keep the cardboard from wobbling and make your stage sturdier.
Keep your body behind the light and your puppets in front of the light for the proper effect.
16. Perform your puppet show before the relatives, friends, household pets or theater critics of your choice.
