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Lesson 6: Craft and Design 3: Shadow puppets

Children create cat and mice shadow puppets from templates or by drawing their own silhouettes, then make and decorate a puppet theatre using a cereal box, ready for a performance

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Main event

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Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: The attached mouse designs can be traced onto the card for the children to cut out for the mouse characters.

Pupils working at greater depth: More confident artists can design their own character puppets

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Created by:
Simon Chubb,  
Art and design specialist
Simon is a teacher, cartoonist and artist. He uses his 25 years of experience to teach art in schools and has his own workshop business ‘Scartoons’ in which children create comic characters and strips. Simon is a member of The…
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