We come to you with everything supplied for an all inclusive fee. A variety of Moving Mouth Creature Puppet Making Workshops available for 2022 including Cavemen, Dragons, Dinosaurs, World Animals, Minibeasts. Bespoke Puppet designs and workshops can be created for individual Schools and Schemes of Work. Costs: Daily all inclusive fee with materials, tools supplied of £560 Value: All Children create and keep a Puppet. 120 Pupils a day PPP £4.66 A School year in the morning, 2x classes combined = 60 pupils and the same in the afternoon. Puppets are constructed using simple child friendly Puppet Making materials. Card, wooden spatulas, faux-fur, rags, wool, googly and toy eyes, foam sheets, pipe cleaners. Tools include templates, scissors, (including left handed) Hole Punches, Pencils and PVA and Stick Glue. Workshops can incorporate/link to whole school activities, targets other ideas and might build to creating an all school participating Reception Piece. I can also have a PP Group for an hour for discussion on aspiration and or for targeted work. Nottingham based available UK wide. Workshops are delivered by Professional Puppet Maker, Puppeteer Marcus Clarke FRSA DBS CTLLS CET Teaching Qualification. http://www.handsuppuppets.com/html/Puppetry_Arts_Education.html

Working with a Primary School I developed these Puppet Making Workshops based on the whole school topic of the Midnight Fair Book. Delivering the Workshop to all years, one whole year group in the morning and another in the afternoon over three days every child has made a puppet. Card, Foam and water based glue. We discuss light, especially at night, luminosity, radiance, vividness, phosphorescence how and why things seem to shine, glow, glimmer. Contrast and Silhouettes, abstract art. I combine this with a talk on my Puppetry Career as a Maker and Puppeteer. Our work today with Channel Five’s Milkshake Monkey, BBC Justin’s House. Basic Tuition in how to learn to Puppeteer. Inspirational discussions with small groups are also available.

Moving Mouth Puppet Making Workshop delivered to whole year groups over two sessions by us as external practitioners. Everything supplied, we come to you. Inclusive price per day. Design Technology and English, Drama as these Puppets are performable both individually and in groups.

A variety of Card based puppets depicting Ancient Egyptian characters. Cleopatra, Osiris, Anubis etc. This workshop results in each child creating a puppet they can then interact with and use to perform voices, ask questions and interact with other children’s puppets. More information athttps://www.handsuppuppets.com/html/Puppetry_Arts_Education.html

Puppet Making Workshops for Schools. Available UK wide. We come to you with everything supplied for an all inclusive fee. 2 Primary Year groups per day for an all inclusive fee with everything provided including Glue, Tools and Materials. Varied ability Design Technology Challenge. Variety of other Creature Puppet Making Workshops available including Mini beasts, Bees, Bugs. Bespoke Puppet designs and workshops created for individual Schemes of Work. Whole School theme can be used and whole School activity can be developed from the visit. All workshops are delivered in person with Puppetry talk by professional Puppeteer and Puppet Maker, Marcus Clarke FRSA DBS CET Teaching Qualification.

All inclusive fee for a whole day of Mini Beast Puppet Making with everything supplied. We come to you and lead the Workshop 2 Classes in the Morning 2 Classes in the afternoon. Year 4 upwards but can be combined with Mini - Beast Card based Puppet Making Workshops for Years 1-4. Contact us direct or at Hands Up Puppets for more information and availability.

Pop up Puppet Making Workshop for Schools Workshop Providers Web page Workshop Providers Video Channel with How to Punky Pop Up Puppets Schools Workshops are delivered by Puppet Maker and Puppeteer, Marcus Clarke of Hands Up Puppets. The Puppet Making Workshops are a Design Technology challenge to varying and managed levels. Each child creates a simple moving mouth Puppet. These styles of Puppet lend themselves well to further development too as Animation or a Puppetry performance. Animated in Theatrical style Live or on a flat surface and then filmed on basic digital devices. Further Artworks can be generated by including the pupil made Puppets into painted individual environment landscapes or by joint activities into larger Hall or Reception Display. The Design Technology Puppet Making element involves basic Wooden Spatulas, Craft Water based Glue and Craft Foam with other additional fabrics and materials, dependent on style. Stencil tracing and component cutting out with Scissors. Marcus provides all the materials and Tools necessary for up to 4 classes a day, 120 pupils which he delivers for an all inclusive daily fee. Contact for details. The real benefit of having Marcus hold the Workshops is his Puppetry knowledge and instructional ability along with the really wide range of materials he supplies. This wide choice of materials means that every child’s work can be distinctive and unique to them essential for the exploration of identity. He’s also an engaging Inspirational Speaker and an Exhibiting Visual Artist.

[https://youtu.be/ceFhbL56-bE] This Masterclass explains how a professional Puppeteer performs characters for everything from Children’s TV to Star Wars Films. As the Puppeteer here, Marcus Clarke, has and he also alludes the the different types of Puppets used and how they are created. It’s the above link with the image for reference.