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"Frogs Make Me Hoppy" Learning about frogs is easy when children get to create their own puppets, use voice for onomatopoeia, and then make the puppet come alive using the whole body! Workshop #1: Re... Read more

"Frogs Make Me Hoppy" Learning about frogs is easy when children get to create their own puppets, use voice for onomatopoeia, and then make the puppet come alive using the whole body! Workshop #1: Reading of "Frog Song" by Brenda Z. Guiberson which journeys around the world to learn about an amazing variety of frogs and environments and habits. Onomatopoeia is a technique utilized in the book, which I use to invite the students to join in through a call and response. We learn to hear the differences in sound patterns from frogs around the world and discuss the various habitats through the story, which may change the way in which the frog eggs are protected in order for their species to survive. Workshop #2: Frog Puppet/Mask-Making: We create frog puppets utilizing some everyday objects. Students choose the design for their frog puppets, real or imagined. To aide in their design I will have our book "Frog Song" available for them to revisit along with high-resolution photographic images of frogs/toads from around the world. They can view the patterns in the photographs and repeat them in their individual designs. Then they add the puppet elements for their hands. Workshop #3: Puppetry Workshop: We learn a pattern of movements to create a short frog drama to warm up. We are learning how to express ourselves with our full bodies while still using a puppet while considering our spatial relationships. They learn puppetry techniques which is a fun way to teach the students to focus, since the puppet's eyes have to "focus" in order to help the audience imagine that it is alive! Then as the finale they get the last puppet element, which is a party blowout for the tongue, for a very dramatic surprise ending to catch flies as the audience plays along!

1) Class reading to introduce the students to frogs, 30 minutes is allotted, if time allows and works for that specific grade level. 2) The hands on frog puppet-making, 45 minutes in length. 3) The ... Read more

1) Class reading to introduce the students to frogs, 30 minutes is allotted, if time allows and works for that specific grade level. 2) The hands on frog puppet-making, 45 minutes in length. 3) The final puppetry movement workshop, 30-45 minutes. Prefer class 1 and 2 to happen in 1 visit, if time allows, for a total of 75 minutes for Day 1. Day 2 is only 30-45 minutes.

Workshop #2 (Day 1) ONLY: Please also have two medium-large staplers available. Workshop #3: Puppets that students created in Workshop #2 must be accessible for the students to use during this final... Read more

Workshop #2 (Day 1) ONLY: Please also have two medium-large staplers available. Workshop #3: Puppets that students created in Workshop #2 must be accessible for the students to use during this final workshop with open space.

Workshop #1 story time area. Workshop #2 tables / work surface for creation, place to store/display their puppets until next workshop; Minimum of 7' x 7' open floor space for me to present and introdu... Read more

Workshop #1 story time area. Workshop #2 tables / work surface for creation, place to store/display their puppets until next workshop; Minimum of 7' x 7' open floor space for me to present and introduce the puppet that we are making, because it requires full-bodied movement. Workshop #3 open space (i.e. dance studio, theater stage, gym, cafeteria with tables cleared) so that we can move safely without obstructions. It helps to have one table set up for the students' to place their puppets on, because they will need pick them up halfway through this final workshop.