When it came time to put the sticks on the puppets, we used a wooden dowel as the central stick and a lighter bamboo skewer for the moveable part. I had some tissue paper, twisteez wire, pipe cleaners, and cellophane handy to add some texture to the shadows as well. We used the hole punch to make eyes (you can use scissors to cut eyes and mouth holes too). They cut the entire figure out first, and then made specific cuts on the portions they wanted to manipulate later (such as cutting the tail off and reattaching it with a brass fastener).
The kids started by using markers to sketch their puppets on a sheet of tagboard.
We had cats, ghosts, dragons, zombies, and some sort of monster with a detachable brain. But the kids could make anything they wanted. I made two example puppets – a cat (because the cats are such fantastic characters in the book), and a ghost. Tissue paper, twisteez wire, pipe cleaners, and cello sheets (optional).Can Olive and her friends fight off the shadows? This book is spooky, exciting, funny, and kept the kids in the group on the edges of their seats (or pillows, rather). She also discovers a trio of talking cats (who totally rock), a be-spelled boy named Morton, and the nefarious plans of Aldous McMartin, the evil patriarch of the ancient McMartin family. Olive soon discovers that she can enter the house’s enchanted paintings. McMartin, and the rest of her dark family, back. McMartin, was involved in witchcraft, and not very nice witchcraft at that. Olive Dunwoody and her parents have just moved into an old house. We had just finished reading The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows by Jacqueline West (Dial, 2010). We made these fantastic shadow puppets as part of To Be Continued, our chapter book story time for kids ages 6-8.
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