2nd CLASS: The importance of puppets in EDUCATION

PUPPETRY

Puppetry is an old, traditional art, which is still active in almost every culture, used in many different contexts, for spiritual, cultural and educational teaching. As puppetry is primarily a visual art, it can communicate to people who are not literate or who do not understand spoken language and it has been used in this way for thousands of years. In class. 

I have learned that there are many ways to prepare the primary classes with puppetry. There are three techniques of preparing puppets:

1. Papier - marché: is a composite material consisting of paper pieces, sometimes reinforced with textiles, bound with an adhesive, such as glue, starch or in this case with wallpaper paste. 

and the result is... 

  2. Clay (dictation): is a technique to do in class very effective for pupils can open their mind while they make forms with the clay. The other afternoon Elixabet and I did a lot of forms in our students residence. It´s really funny!!

  3. Shadow puppetry: is an ancient form of storytelling and entertaiment which uses flat articulated figures to create the impression of moving humans and other three dimensional  objects. 

Giants and big heads in Toledo (Spain)

    Giants and big heads are a popular tradition in the festivals held of Toledo. The tradition is to make certain figures parading dancing and cheering, giants, or chasing people who come to the celebration, bigheaded.

     The giants are figures of several meters carried by a person. The carrier spins and giant dancing to the sound of popular music band. Generally giants giant parade in pairs and giantess. The most common is that the figures represent archetypes popular or important historical figures of Toledo, like in the video.

I let my imagination fly with art...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSZeaeuShw&feature=youtu.be