A sea of excited faces greeted me at St. Michael’s Primary School, Kingsteignton, South Devon, in February, for our shadow puppetry workshop exploring the qualities of light and shadow. The year 3 children investigated the interaction of light with colours and textures, along with how to design and perform silhouette art.
I was amazed at how empathic the 7-8 year olds were, able to communicate and recognise emotions solely by the movements of each others’ simple, non-articulated puppets!
It was a pleasure to share the magic of shadow play with such an attentive group, who all created and performed their own shadow puppets by the end of the day.
Flower Fox by a year 3 student