Explore the Wonders of Table Puppet Storytelling in this Online eCourse!

You're invited to join me as I team up with Lisa Boisvert Mackensie of 'Celebrate the Rhythm of Life' for an online immersion into the magic of table puppet storytelling! A number of you signed up for the amazing mini-course we have just completed, and now you have the opportunity to learn how to tell stories using table puppets! I hope you'll join us! Illustrated tutorials, vocal and video instruction, personal responses to your questions from instructors and course participants, and the opportunity for instructor feedback on your personal puppetry explorations throughout the course is included in the tuition fee.

Click on the link for more info and to sign up:  TABLE PUPPET STORYTELLING

Puppetry creates an opening for magic in both the watcher and the puppet storyteller. It nourishes the senses, creates connection, and requires unique participation on the part of the audience; the more we believe the more real it becomes! Puppetry can be as uncomplicated as tucking a simple handkerchief over the hand or as elaborate as manipulating a many-tiered harness tied with multiple stings. But one look into the eyes of a delighted audience filled with children and the 'young at heart', and the certainty exists that puppetry speaks to everyone.
Create a Magical Connection with the Children in Your Care with These Storytelling Tips for Parents, Teachers and Homeschooling Families!!

Many thanks to Jada A for hosting me on her homeschooling youtube series! Are you looking for more ways to support your child or students in their journey to literacy? Please join me here at this link:
The Art of Storytelling

STARLITE PUPPETS WINTER TIME NEWS

New Beginnings!

WISHING YOU A JOYFUL NEW YEAR!!

This article includes our upcoming puppet performance schedule, a delightful seasonal song, and a magical moving picture craft to accompany the music!

Work on the parent & educator resource "A Journey Through Winter" has begun!!

What a joyful exploration: the discovery of the basic foundational elements of the Winter season! I love the process of creating and developing materials that are engaging and fun for children and adults. This collection will include both original work and new adaptations of old favorites. It will still be some time before the project is complete, but enjoy a musical except from "A Journey Through Winter" this season. Learn a song about the brave Merganser ducks who stay and sing in the Winter time! Following each 'quack, quack' in the song, an instrument or the children may echo back.




This verse was inspired by a walk that my kindergarten children and I take to the park that adjoins our school. We delight in feeding the ducks every week on 'walk day'! 
                                   
"Little duck, little duck his beak he takes,
To dip in the waters of the clear blue lake.
Little tail up, and little beak down,
Then up pops his head and he splashes around!"--by Connie Manson


Create a finger puppet and/or a magical moving picture to accompany the song and poem. This is a craft that is engaging for both adults and children.


Children love pictures that move; watching an adult using them in a poem, song or story, and then making their own. (Note: For young children cut the duck pattern and the slit in the paper in advance.) Trace the duck pattern provided below onto a piece of card stock or water color paper. Color the duck with crayons or paint, cut out with scissors, and glue to a flat wooden craft stick. Use a piece of water color paper or card stock, laid out lengthwise (landscape style) and cut a wavy slit with a matte knife 1/3 of the way up from the bottom about 2 inches from each end. Color or paint a 'winter pond' landscape, and then operate the little duck from behind the paper to make some winter magic! If you choose to include snow in the setting, try lightly brushing craft glue over parts of the 'snow' with a brush, then sprinkle on a pinch of clear glitter or fairy dust for a little sparkle!


Pattern for Little Duck:


Cut one for Moving Picture Pattern
Cut two for Finger Puppet Pattern   


                                          
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