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"Frogs Make Me Hoppy" makes learning about frogs easy when children get to create their own puppets, use voice for onomatopoeia, and then make the puppet come to life using the whole body in this 3-pa... Read more

"Frogs Make Me Hoppy" makes learning about frogs easy when children get to create their own puppets, use voice for onomatopoeia, and then make the puppet come to life using the whole body in this 3-part series done over the course of 2 days in the classroom! Workshop #1 (1 hour): Introduction to local & international frog sounds in order to "call in" our frog puppet & meet the puppeteer. (Move from the rug to the desks) 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 the book "Frog Song" available for them to view along with high-resolution photographic images of frogs/toads from around the world. Frog images can also be added to the smart board with an internet search. The students can view diverse patterns in the photographs and repeat them in their individual puppet designs or create their own unique pattern. Then they add the puppet elements for their hands to make them move. Teacher and Teaching Artist will staple the part together for the students. Workshop #2 (10 minutes): Dance warm up to a Sova Theater's original "Froggy Song" where we dance and sing considering the life cycles of a frog throughout. Workshop #3: Puppetry Workshop (30 minutes): We learn how to make our puppet talk, and then 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 with our 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!

Note: We typically meet each classroom for two 1 hour sessions total.

1) The hands on frog puppet-making, up to 45 minutes in length with a 15 minute introduction combined for 1 full hour on Day 1 in each classroom. 2) Day 2 includes 4 sections that are 10-20 minutes ea... Read more

1) The hands on frog puppet-making, up to 45 minutes in length with a 15 minute introduction combined for 1 full hour on Day 1 in each classroom. 2) Day 2 includes 4 sections that are 10-20 minutes each. a) dance to original Sova Theater "Froggy Song" with big stretches. b) Frog life cycle dance warm up introducing audience & stage. c) learn to talk with your puppet. d) Learn the rules of puppetry to bring our puppets to life through full bodied expression and a mini-performance for each other in the classroom by breaking up into two groups.

Workshop #1: paper plates, materials for frog eyes (scrap cereal boxes or cardstock), paint sticks, foam sheets, extra staplers. Workshop #2: book "Frog Song" by Brenda Z. Guiberson. Workshop #3: Sou... Read more

Workshop #1: paper plates, materials for frog eyes (scrap cereal boxes or cardstock), paint sticks, foam sheets, extra staplers. Workshop #2: book "Frog Song" by Brenda Z. Guiberson. Workshop #3: Sound System & party blowouts for final puppetry lesson.

Day 1 ONLY: Please also have two medium-large staplers available. Please store the students' puppets in the classroom until Day 2. Day 2: Bring student-made puppets for us to complete them and lea... Read more

Day 1 ONLY: Please also have two medium-large staplers available. Please store the students' puppets in the classroom until Day 2.
Day 2: Bring student-made puppets for us to complete them and learn how to use them. Open space is helpful in order to hop and jump like frogs here.

Day 1: Start on rug for intro and then move to 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 i... Read more

Day 1: Start on rug for intro and then move to 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.

Students will create their very own unique frog puppet! Students will understand that different frog have different sounds both locally and globally. Students will observe how their classmates dep... Read more

Students will create their very own unique frog puppet!
Students will understand that different frog have different sounds both locally and globally.
Students will observe how their classmates depict a frog's life cycle through movement and learn how to bring their new artistic creation to life through movement and sound.