Overview
Students will create paper mâché puppet characters using recycled materials. Materials will include cardboard boxes, egg cartons, paper towel rolls, and newspapers. Students will develop their character through discussion, writing, and sketching. Students will use art vocabulary as they create the details of their puppet through paint, fabric, and wood pieces.
Lessons
Materials and Tools
- Scissors
- Cardboard cones
- Paper towel rolls
- Egg cartons
- Masking tape
- Buckets
- Garbage bags
- Newspaper strips
- Art paste
- Paintbrushes
- Acrylic paint (primary colors, black and white)
- Tacky glue
- Glue brushes
- Air-dry clay
- Flat wood pieces
- Felt
- Yarn
- Fabric
- Beads
- Ribbons
- Paper towels
Resources
Bread and Puppet Theatre:
https://breadandpuppet.org
The Muppets:
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Category:The_Muppets_Characters
Amedeo Modigliani:
BOOKS:
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss (Author), Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (Illustrators)
Lucia the Luchadora by Cynthia Leonor Garza (Author), Alyssa Bermudez (Illustrator)
Adaptations
For Multilingual Learners
- Sentence starters
- Cooperative grouping
- Multi-modality tasks
- Engaging texts and images
- Rich content
- Building social and academic language and knowledge through discussion
- Building language and knowledge through writing
- High-utility vocabulary and academic language development
- Language Experience Approach (LEA): Writing a group paragraph
- Jigsaw activity
- Reading books relating to topics
Credits
Paper Mâché Puppets
Written by Belinda Blum, Artist Instructor
Lesson Development
Julie Applebaum, Senior Director
Belinda Blum, Artist Instructor
Andrea Burgay, Associate Director
Traci Talasco, Artist Instructor
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