Day 9: Be Theatrical!

You can make your own puppet theater. Begin by cutting off the finger-ends of old gloves. Draw faces on these fingers with felt tip markers and glue on yarn for hair. Or glue on felt strips to create cat, dog or other animal faces. Then create a story that the finger puppets can act out. You can plan a performance, make a simple stage somewhere in your house or on the steps of someone’s home, create a handout for your play with the name of the play and the actors names and sell tickets.

You could also cut out photos and paste them on popsicle sticks and have a puppet show. Make sure you ask your parents first before you cut out any photos or gloves!!! To make your theatre, just take two chairs, tie a string between them along the top and hang a blanket over it. Sit behind the blanket and hold your figures up!!

Make up your own stories or you can get some stories to act out from these websites:

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Reader’s Theatre Scripts and Plays

The Reading Lady

Shorter Scripts

Teacherhelp – This site has all sorts of ideas for puppets and some Christian plays for you to act out as well!

Bag Puppets – This site helps you to make puppets with paper bags. There are a whole bunch of sites where you can print out animals, cut them out and glue them to your paper bag to make puppets.