The daughter has been assigned to do a book report on a biography. She chose Dr. Seuss. Part of her assignment is to create a puppet of the individual and perform her report in the first person for the class. We're pretty involved in the homework around here anyway, but building a puppet? Oh yeah.
I've suggested to the daughter that she explain that while we did work on this together (which we did) her father went a little crazy living out some repressed Muppet fascination from his youth.
Puppet: Styrofoam head, clearance fleece skin, yarn hair, dollar store infant shirt, old sock collar and cuffs, refrigerator clippy things (for hands that can hold items), 20 lone socks for stuffing, surplus pair of 3D glasses and a bunch of hot glue.
The kids glued on his googly eyes this morning, post photos. Now that I look at him, he'd pass for a Stan Lee puppet too.
Monday, March 16, 2009
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I really hate assignments for students that really mean "Get your parent to do it for you if you want a good grade."
This wasn't one of those. The teachers went over all sorts of "puppet" options including stick puppets (paper cut-out glued to a stick). I just jumped on the excuse to build a Muppet style puppet with my child. The daughter is giving her report today, she was very cute practicing this morning.
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