Last Friday Cath and I did a workshop at the Mairangi Arts Centre together. It was a holiday workshop for kids aged 7 to 12. Originally we wanted to do two days. The first day should have been puppet making and the second day creating the stop motion film with the puppets from the previous day. Unfortunately there weren’t enough takers for puppet making, though the stop motion part was reasonably popular. So we had to create the actors for the film on the same day… It was all a bit rushed, but I finally learned my lesson: Don’t mention puppets!
Of course, on the day the kids were really happy to create their puppets. They had heaps of fun, but would they enrol in a puppet making workshop. No way!
Ah well, here is the result: As I said it is all a bit rushed, but it was certainly a good sign that the kids didn’t want to leave when the class came to an end.
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Looks like people had fun. The music does add a whole lot doesn’t it?
You are right we all had so much fun. Unfortunately it was a bit pushed, as the kids were supposed to enrol in puppet making workshop the day before, but didn’t. So we had to make the characters the same day. And boy, did the kids have fun making those puppets, sorry characters!