Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Puppet Practice Party

As I have stated in past posts, Mark and I are in charge of our Grades 1-4 Puppet Team for Lads to Leaders this year. We have had a great time, and we have had the privilege of working with an awesome group of kiddos. This past Saturday after soccer, we had all the kids over for a "Puppet Practice Party". We met from 1-4 and had a great time. The kids played outside (the weather was wonderful!) and did some actual practicing, too.....Next, the girls (it was offered to the boys, too, but they had better things to do) created paper bag puppets out of paper bags, scrapbooking paper, and markers. I thought their puppets turned out really cute, and they had a great time making them...
After the creations were done, it was time for some more artistic projects. We worked together to make the backdrop for our puppet program. The kids had fun painting that....
What is a party without food??!! For our snack, the kids were given various "finger foods" to use to make their own "puppet". I thought it was neat how each one turned out so different. Here are our "puppet people"...
Before the kids left, each one was given their own "Paper Bag Scrapbook" with pictures in it of our past practices, etc... I thought they turned out pretty good for my first attempt. The kids really liked them, too.
We had a great day and the kids all got along great. They are doing an awesome job on their puppet script, too. Way to go, guys!!!

4 comments:

Wendi said...

Cute Cute Cute!!! The ideas you have are the most creative !! I love it!

Sasha said...

I love the paperbag puppets!! I'll try to store that in my ideas for kids part of my brain :o) :o)
Are ya'll going to L2L in Nashville?

Stephanie said...

Yes, we are headed to Nashville. Is Henderson going to Nashville or Memphis this year??

Sandy said...

Looks like you all had LOTS of fun! The scrapbooks turned out great but that's no surprise!!!! I love the food puppets too!! Very creative!