Last term, Year 5 studied ‘Clockwork’ by Philip Pullman. Pupils have at last finished designing, making and performing with their shadow-puppets inspired by the book. They explored the traditional shadow puppets from South East Asia and the work of German animator and film director, Lotte Reiniger.

 

This was a DT/Art project and each of the puppets have articulated arms and a basic mechanism (levers or sliders) to create moving parts. The puppets were decorated using complementary colour pairs (or should have been). The children worked so hard to make these and have really enjoyed writing short scripts and performing with their puppets over the last two weeks.

 

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