A few months back I made some shadow puppets from templates I found online. My goal was to have our three-year-old guests in Lake Tahoe this summer put on some after-dinner plays for the adults. I spent about 5 hours making this "theater" using a font I found online and a freezer paper printing technique. This technique is great because it produces a very precise image and does not make a huge mess, however, it can be time consuming if you are making a large print. In the future, I'd recommend using transfer paper, it would be much faster.
I hung our theater in a doorway using a pressure bar to hold it up. You also need to have a bright light source, I just took the shade off a lamp.
The kids loved the theater but were a little lost for words when it came to making up their own dialog so we just had them sing songs with their puppets and had them do a little Q & A with the audience.
adorable!
Posted by: jackie | July 29, 2009 at 09:28 AM