Sample Finished Puppets (3rd Grade)

Finished mixed media puppets created with cardboard, clay, cloth, yarn. Please ask your children to tell you the myth of Persephone. They loved watching me retell the story using their own puppets and retelling it with a modern twist.....These are just great puppets.

Below is a child trimming his puppet's hair very carefully.

Hair, Hair Everywhere

3rd Grade puppets waiting for their hair to set. Next week we will dress and add eyes, nose, mouths to these puppets. These "Persephone" puppets already have their unique personality and they are not yet done. Check back later to see them become real.

These are made from plastic cups, rolled up magazine paper rolled into balls, acrylic silver paint, yarn.

Kids began by adding rows of hair at the bottom of the back of the head and adding new rows above each row.

Check out these locks! Parents have donated all this yarn and we need more for after vacation when the rest of the 3rd graders add hair to their puppets. I could go and buy yarn. But the donated yarn is always much more varied and interesting. Thanks Murch parents!

A peak in the everchanging art studio at Murch

I LOVE my huge shelf. Everything has its place.

My latest amazing new tools is my new ELMO. I can project images in books, as well as detailed enlarged views of my explorations in paints, clay and other media.

I love boxes. This box hold 24 almost-done Persephone puppets. They are waiting to have their eyes glued on, and their noses, mouths and shoes colored in with markers. During our last class we added hair, so during the next class the puppets will either get their hair trimmed or braided.
In this box you find half-way done puppets created by 3rd graders. These need to be dressed and detailed. For this play children are going to writing their own words based on a Greek Myth they heard in class.

4th grade are almost done with their Christopher Myers inspired collage depicting a scene from a Greek Myth