Teaching Through Puppetry Geared mainly for elementary and middle school educators this program can be tailored to suit any audience. Combining demonstration, performance and hands-on puppetry participants explore the use of puppetry to enhance and improve the cognitive learning of basic skills. Workshop includes several types of sock puppets. Participants design and assemble materials for their own sock puppets at several workstations followed by basic manipulation practice and short presentations. Discussion of construction ideas and manipulations.
Participants design and assemble components for puppets.
A treasure of hand puppets is explored before participants create their own hand puppet. This workshop can easily be conducted in an hour, designed more complexly for a weekend seminar or in-residence program. Stage Master puppeteer Michael Reher turns every classroom into a puppet studio where every participant has the opportunity to build and perform with his or her own puppets. Puppet characterization, script writing, making puppets, stages, scenery and props and the final performance are all part of this exciting workshop.