Sock Puppets – 20th Jan 2014 (Source Material)

Puppetry is one technique used within Theatre for Children, an example being the “Punch and Judy Show” that gets the children involved by getting them to call out and interact with the characters.

Part of our research was to create our own sock puppets (clap mouth) and then create a five minute story within our groups, using our sock puppets.

During the “creating process” we decided as a group to use the theme of a Circus when making our sock puppets and so we created characters often found in a circus, such as a Ringmaster, an exotic dancer and a snake.

Once the puppets were finished we were set the task of creating a story to perform to our peers. Our story initially started as the story of a group of circus acts whose performances were booed and then would encourage one another to give an amazing performance. However as we fell short of time our group struggled to keep our initial story intact.

Instead our performance consisted of several different “acts” and our key piece of feedback was that it wasn’t a story with a beginning, middle and end. This was a fair comment as we lost the aim of the task which was creating a story with a clear beginning, middle and ending.

However despite this issue we as a group enjoyed our exploration into puppetry and found that it could be a very effective way to help tell a story to a child audience.

Le Puppét:

 

My puppet, Dave the snake:

 

Krooked Theatre’s puppets!!!: