Making puppets

This week, what we most learnt to do was to make puppets. We had our lessons where they explained us the different types of puppets, they even showed us the one we saw in “Vedova in Lumine”, this helped a lot as they explained the basis of how they were used, and as we are also using this type of puppet for the school play, it helped for us.

Also we saw a performance with puppets, which was really interesting. I think that all depends on the puppeteer, they make the puppet go alive and they make them unique and enjoyable to see. I was so excited to see these performances, and more in the second one, as it was different from any kind of puppet performance I have ever seen, it made me get full of suspense and I was scared and at the same time interested in the performance.

At the end we were doing our own types of puppets with spongy material (for the head), I found this quiet difficult to do, but we are still working on it, we will have to show this to the kids that are doing theatre and they will have to do a puppet too, I wonder if it will work, or if it will be a mess. Would it be a good idea using that much puppets in our play?, would it work?