Marionettes alive!

Wow, the end results of the marionette project in Room 5 this Arts Festival are amazing!  Check the photos below for the final line up.

Art Fest Days 2 & 3: Paint, Lash and String

We've all worked hard to paint and dress our marionettes, lash together a cross to string them from, and then string the different body parts to that cross so we can make them move.  It's hard to do without getting the strings tangled!  Quite a few of us got the legs or arms back to front or the wrong way round.  We certainly improved our skills with fiddly knots and left vs right...

Art Fest Day 1: Marionettes - Creating body parts

Strips of newspaper, pieces of wire and rolls of masking tape have been flying around left, right and centre in Room 5 today as Art Fest kicks off.  Jo is sharing with a mixed group of intermediate kids how to make marionettes (string puppets) using these basic materials.

An elephant, Superwoman, zombie, Jed and a monkey are some of the characters that this creative bunch are slowly bringing to life.
To make the limbs, you roll long strips of newspaper tightly around a piece wire, then wrap in masking tape. The torso and head need more innovation, as they are shaped and built up by gradually adding scrunched up newspaper, before wrapping and smoothing in a layer of masking tape.

Next job: painting the components.

Ultimate Alphabet - letter Q

Week nine already! This week, our Ultimate alphabet activity was 'Q'.It has 79 words in there and it is very hard. The ultimate alphabet is made up of heaps of pictures and you have to find the words that start with the letter that you have to find. It used to be a competition and now it has been made into a book.

Click here to see a bigger version - how many can you find?