The students painted outside with watercolors on postcards, and noted

place, time, and weather like I do in my daily drawings.

Molly

Amanda

Jon

We studied shadow puppets while we were learning about light and shadow. Each group sat in a circle with one member beginning a story with a sentence about light. We went around the circle adding and building character and plot until we had a rough outline. We refined our story, and then designed our shadow puppets.

 

 

Adventures of the Cloud Giants

A Shadow Puppet Play

(condensed version)

by Jon, Amanda, Heather, Des, James, Tiffany, and Latisha

 

Once upon a time there were cloud giants wondering where the light was when all of a sudden the sun popped out of the clouds. Flowers grew really tall, and there was no room for people to build their houses. Soon the cloud giants noticed a blue, white, green, and brown planet getting closer to them. It took them over, and they were in a dark space.

 

Soon the planet landed on earth, and everyone started playing chess. They didn't really know the rules so they hunted all over the earth for the manual. They found it in shreds and decided to do something else with their lives. They got on a light beam and flew into the universe which took them back to their clouds.

 

They were tired when they got back home, and decided to take a nap. Meanwhile, the blue, white, green, and brown planet shot a laser beam that transported them into a black hole. They loved their new home, and wished they had found it earlier.

 

To find out about the cultural history of shadow puppets and how to make them click on click on

http://www.balibeyond.com/gamelan/shadowcraft.html

or

http://www.worldbook.com/fun/wbla/camp/html/craftpup.html