Trickster Tale Projects

We are working hard to prepare for this week's Education Celebration. It's an opportunity for us to share PBL (Project Based Learning) projects with LdV families and the community. The children in our class will be sharing their Trickster Tale Projects.

For this project, they are working with a partner to retell a favorite trickster tale and will perform a live shadow puppet show to go along with it. Their retells have already been recorded and the kids have been creating puppets and other props to use for their show.

We'll be finishing up the audio portion of the show by adding a bit of music to the beginning and end of each story. We are going to use Freeplay Music to find music that will help to give more information to the audience about what culture the story came from.

They are also working hard to prepare their shadow puppet shows. With all of their shadow makers ready to go, they are selecting just the right lighting and practicing different effects.

Here are a few of the sites we are using to help us understand what the show should (or could) look like:
Kennedy Center's Playing with Shadows
How To Do Your Own Shadow Puppetry Show
Richard Bradshaw: Shadow Puppeteer
Little Fables
Journey to Neverland Shadowography

Can't wait to see how all of this turns out! We'll have videos of the performances to share with you soon...


Here are a couple of quick videos from our experimentation with shadow puppets: