Project Title: Transformation Puppet Part 2
Medium: kinetic sculpture
Grade Theme: Metamorphosis & Transformation

Overview: Students will create sculpted kinetic mask puppets with paper, sticks, tape, paint and other embellishments
Art Skills:  Construction, modeling, painting, design, engineering
Process: Students will add hair, clothes, hands and feet and other embellishments.  They will (with teacher assistance) assemble the puppets and learn how to manipulate their movements.
Materials: Felt, wiggle eyes, string, pipe cleaners, hot glue.
Tools Provided by Classroom: Scissors
Vocabulary: Puppet Kinetic Sculpture, Character, Transformation
Multiple Subject Integration: Engineering, character design

*Please note that samples were made by teaching artists.  Students will be encouraged to make their own versions of this project. Please DO NOT show students these samples in advance of the art lesson.

Description Summary: Today students had the second of a two-part special art lesson making their own transformation puppets.  They added eyes, hair and the transformation mask that helped their puppets display their characters’ transformation.