Christmas Story Shadow Puppets

Here's one of the shadow puppets from my Christmas Story shadow puppet set. This is a simple puppet show I made for a Sunday school class.  I usually work with kids from 4th grade and up for shadow puppets.  This is a good show for beginner puppetteers, since there are no moving parts on the puppets. Figure out ahead of time how the show will flow, which direction the puppets need to face. Assign puppet(s) to each child, and choose a narrator. After you run through it once or twice, let the kids trade puppets and try again. Or put on a show for another class to watch.

If you are doing this at home, invite grandma for Christmas Eve dinner and after you clear away the dinner dishes, set up the theatre, and the kids can put on the show.

Downloadable Puppet patterns are now available in my etsy shop.

The puppets can be used with my tabletop shadow theatre (see my earlier blog to make your own theatre)
The script I used can be found here:     puppet script

defiant

A couple of weeks ago I made my annual trek to the NH Highland Games at Loon Mountain and spent a wonderful day with my son, watching the sheepdog trials and listening to Celtic music. The sheepdog competition is held on a ski slope, so the animals get quite a workout.

Defiant  -    cut paper collage

..... there always seems to be one sheep that decides to challenge the dog and stands its ground...then the border collie sets to work, creeping closer, giving the "eye" until the sheep finally turns to join the rest of the flock.