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Puppets always capture the imagination, especially Parade Puppets, which can be 2, 3, or even 4 times the size of a human! Welcome to puppet making like no other! Cooperating with other students, we’ll construct masterpieces few will forget. Puppets in parades have a long history, from the Dragon puppets used to celebrate the Chinese New Year to the upside-down Marionettes in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. In this class each student will sculpt a large puppet head and then mount the head onto a wooden frame which we will load into a backpack, build some hands on rods and connect them together with fabric arms, creating marching giants sure to fascinate and delight their audience. Students will get to bring home their masterpiece, and if a parade opportunity arises they will be ready!
Backpacks will be provided for use during the program (they will be used in the mounting of the parade puppets); however, they will not be sent home with students. If you would like your child to take a backpack home with their puppet. you must send your child with a designated backpack to use for this project. Please note: just about any normal bookbag or backpack should work, except they need to have a waist/hip belt to stay balanced or they will tip over, and they need to have the two zippers that come together on the main pocket like most of them already have.
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