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  • First Year’s Puppet making Donabate Community College

    Created 2016-01-15 by Niamh Lawlor

    Location: Donabate Community College - Co. Dublin

    Duration: 2016-01-15 to 2016-02-05

Project Outline

Rod Puppet making with first year students. We worked with two classes over two four hour sessions with the art teacher working with them in advance, in between and afterwards, with our advice to finish the process.

Project Details

  • Location: Donabate Community College
  • From date: 2016-01-15
  • To date: 2016-02-05
  • Length: 4 weeks approx
  • Participants per session: 45 students in two groups
  • Participants in total: 45
  • Contact hours: 8 with puppeteers + additional prep and finishing time with teachers
  • Age range of participants:
    12-14
  • County(ies):
    Dublin
  • Related Organisation(s):
    Donabate Community College
  • Other Related Artists:
    Alicia Falvey

Project Posts

  • making the body | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    Body and head are built using newspaper, toilet rolls, egg cartons and other recycled...

  • Unicorn Head | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    The students used newspaper, toilet rolls, egg cartons and other recycled and...

  • Puppet in action | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    The rod puppet isn’t finished yet but is already keen to get moving! Rods will also...

  • Puppet in action | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    The Students are cutting hands from plastic bottles which they will then cover with...

  • Dobby Puppet | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    This student is attaching shoes to her puppet’s cable tie legs.

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  • Dobby Puppet | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    This student is covering the cardboard leg structure with papier mache to make it...

  • Puppet head with resource | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    Before we arrived in the school we asked the teachers to allow the students to do some...

  • Dorothy’s egg box nose | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    We encouraged the children to find shapes in egg boxes etc which could help them build...

  • Dorothy’s egg box nose | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    We encouraged the children to find shapes in egg boxes etc which could help them build...

  • Bottle body | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    This student was pleased with the shapely waist suggested for her puppet by the plastic...

  • Bottle body | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    This student was pleased with the shapely waist suggested for her puppet by the plastic...

  • Bird rod puppet | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    This student made a bird - you can see the wings he has made from a plastic bottle at...

  • Bird rod puppet | Niamh
    2016-02-03

    This student made a bird - you can see the wings he has made from a plastic bottle at...