How should your puppets tell their story?

The big task is for children working in groups to write a short story with a message and then design and make the puppets and puppet theatre that can be used to tell the story. Planning the production is an important part of the activity, with the performance as its climax.

These are reports on activities taken by schools around the country. You can download the activities as acrobat files from the resources section

Theatre production (June 19, 2003)

Year 6 children created their own theatres and puppets. Some children re-wrote well known stories to inspire them, others took important issues like bullying to address in their scripts.

Read the report

Splitting a big task in half (January 2, 2003)

Here are two reports on the outcomes of the unit which was split between two classes - one doing the story-writing and performing with shadow puppets; the other producing marionettes