Summary
Build an elephant rod puppet. The teaching artist walks children through cutting the elephant and adding rods so it can raise its trunk and stomp along.
Viewer safety
All ages
Uses child-safe craft supplies (paper, scissors, glue/tape). A grown-up can help with cutting.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Puppet talk
- How do the rods let you make your puppet move?
- What is your puppet's name, and how does it feel today?
- What voice will you use to make your puppet talk?
Quick work-a-long
Try it: Hold your puppet up and make it wave, nod, and take a bow. Give it one line to say to the class.