Tell a story using 2d puppets and TV box

Name of activity
‘Tell a story’

Aim of the activity

To facilitate working together, to encourage team building, shared responsibility and communication. We wanted to encourage working in pairs as Art can sometimes be viewed as individualistic. Develop Imagination.
Image/s (do not include images with faces – focus on the activity)

 Materials used
Cereal boxes
 Tinfoil
 Coloured paper
Scissors
 Various coloured and textured card
 Selotape and dispensers
 Markers and pencils
 Pric stick and PVC glue and glue gun
 Lollipop sticks
 Coloured card
 Printed images
 Ribbon
 Cotton wool

Instructions (you can use images here along with text)

Collect appropriate materials, chose the desired theme, start cutting out cereal box, design box to suit the desired outcome. Begin to cut out images, turn them into puppets by adding cardboard for backing and sticking to lollipop sticks. Create background images on sticks. Working together begin to create a story and themes to suit their design. Show and tell work where both in the group will use their art to create couple of sentences and present their story. On completion all groups will be presented with rosettes we had made as a group.

Outcomes (what was achieved)
Team work, communication, creative imagination, finer motor skills, social skills and awareness of others, Sense of achievement with finished product.
Evaluation of activity from group
Really fun activity to work at, worked really well within our group and was able to identify each other’s strengths and worked well as a team.  Was a really big learning curve as it was our first time working with St Hilda and great experience gained by all Fun using different materials and ideas to create the desired finished images? Fun seeing other colleague’s ideas and creativity.


Cost
We found this activity cheap and easy to achieve with us being able to access a lot of the materials from home and collecting certain items like lollipop sticks from coffee shops. Each of the team then bought little supplies like coloured paper, pric stick glue from local better buys shop for little no cost. Also a lot of the different texture card we were able to use from the Art room supplies