This is the completed version of the puppet theater that I made last night/today. I'm pretty darn proud of it. :) Today the kids really enjoyed playing with it, too. First I had them draw little backdrops to put in the windows on either side of the theater. Then in groups of two or three they thought of little stories and performed them in front of the class. Obviously they were all in Arabic so I couldn't understand them, but one story which seemed to have the rest of the class rapt was about someone who puts their baby in the trash and the garbage in the bed. Sounded pretty funny.
I was worried that making the backdrops and performing the skits wouldn't take the whole class, but before I knew it, we only have 15 minutes left and three groups of kids wanted to go again. My girls are such little hams-- a couple of them went up there just to have their puppets sing. The kids seemed to like it though and they had pretty little voices. I wanted to keep their puppets for a little while but I'd told them the last class that they could take them home and they really wanted to so off they went. I've still got a few of some of the kids that didn't turn up today... I think they had exams or something.
If you want to check out a few more pictures of my puppet theater and how it evolved, go to my public Picasa album here.
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