Hi, everyone.

Hi Mrs. Courts.

And I'm very pleased to join you for today's lesson on "Exploring puppets." This is part of the "Templates and Textiles: Hand Puppets" unit.

Our lesson outcome for today is I can identify different types of puppets and how they are made.

In today's lesson, we have got three new keywords.

I'll say them first and then you repeat them after me.

Are you ready? Super.

Puppet.

Puppet.

Brilliant.

A puppet is a toy or model of a person or an animal that you can move to tell a story or to put on a show with.

Well done, everyone.

Material.

Material.

Brilliant.

Material is what an object is made from.

Well done, everyone.

And our final word today is disassembly.

Disassembly.

Brilliant.

Disassembly means taking something apart to see how it works.

Great listening, everyone.

In our lesson today, we have got two learning cycles.

That's two parts to our lesson.

And our first part is exploring puppets.

Do you know what these are and where have you seen them before? That's right.

They're all different types of puppets.

Well done, everyone.

Andeep says, "A puppet is a toy or model of a person or animal that you can move to tell a story with or to put on a show." Well done, Andeep.

And here is one of the puppets.

Look, it's saying hello to you.

Can you say hello? Brilliant.

And this puppet is a hand puppet.

There are lots of different types of puppets.

String puppets.

If you look carefully, they're on strings.

Shadow puppets.

I wonder if you can guess what they would do.

That's right, make shadows on the wall.

And this is a finger puppet.

Well done.

There are stick puppets, sock puppets, and hand puppets.

There's our little rabbit that we met earlier.

We're ready for our first check for understanding now.

And this is a true or false question.

All puppets are the same.

True or false? Pause the video now and have a little think Welcome back.

So all puppets are the same is false.

Well done.

Why is it false? That's right, there are lots of different types of puppets.

There are hand puppets, finger puppets, stick puppets, and shadow puppets.

Izzy asks, "What do you call the person who uses a puppet in a show?" That is a very good question, Izzy.

Do you know? That's right.

Well done, Lucas.

They are called a puppeteer.

Could you say that? Puppeteer.

Brilliant.

Well done.

This is a finger puppet and this one is made from paper, which has been cut and shaped to look like something.

Can you guess what it is? It does look a bit like a monster, doesn't it? Well done.

Some finger puppets are made from card or fabric too.

This is a stick puppet, and stick puppets are usually made from paper or cardboard, but they can also be made from felt.

The material is cut and shaped and then glued to a stick, possibly a lollipop stick or a pencil.

And the paper or card is usually decorated to look like something.

I wonder if you can guess what type of animal this might be.

Well done, this is a bird.

Well done.

This is a spoon puppet and it's made using a wooden spoon and the spoon is decorated.

You have to look really carefully on this one.

What type of animal do you think it is? That's right, it's a dog.

Well done.

So this is a string puppet and it's made from wood, wooden sticks at the top, and it has got strings to help move the little puppet underneath it.

Very clever, isn't it? Here's the wood and here's the strings.

Actually, you can't really see the strings that well because the string is so fine.

So therefore, it looks like the puppet's moving by itself.

Well, this is a sock puppet.

Can you guess what it's made from? That's right, it's made from socks.

Sock puppets are made from socks which have been decorated to have faces on them.

Do you know what this one is? That's right, it's a snake.

We're ready for our next check for understanding now, and I'd like you to match the photographs to the type of puppet.

So we've got three photographs.

And A says finger puppet, B says string puppet, and C says shadow puppet.

Pause the video now and have a little think.

Welcome back.

Did you manage to match them all right? Brilliant.

So A is the finger puppet in the middle here, the little monster.

And B is the string puppet.

Well done.

Remember with the wood and the strings holding the puppet to make it move.

And our final one must be the shadow puppet.

This puts shadows onto the wall behind.

We're ready for our first task now, Task A.

And I'd like you to explore a range of puppets.

How do they work? How are they different? And which do you prefer? Pause the video now and join me when you've completed Task A.

Well, you might have said, how do they work? Well, they work using your hands and your fingers.

How are they different? We might have said they're all made from different materials, they look different, and they work in slightly different ways.

And which do you prefer? You could have said, I prefer the hand puppet.

It was a lot of fun.

You might have chosen a different puppet and that's absolutely fine.

It was your choice.

Well done, everyone.

We're ready for our next part of our lesson now, exploring how puppets are made.

To find out how puppets are made, we can have a closer look.

And this is called disassembly.

Can you say that word? Disassembly.

Brilliant.

Well, before we take the puppet apart, we have to have a look using our eyes.

That's really important.

Have a look first.

We might use a magnifying glass to help us to look really, really closely.

So then we disassemble the puppet.

And this means we take it apart to find out how it's made.

We look at how it's joined, what it's made from, and how each part is made and how it works.

But we do need to remember to ask permission before we start taking things apart.

Disassemble means to take something apart to find out how it is made.

The word dis means opposite and assemble means putting together.

So disassemble is the opposite of assemble.

You might assemble furniture.

If you disassemble it, you take it apart.

When we disassemble, we need to think about materials, and puppets are often different and made from different materials.

"What is a material?" asked Andeep.

That's a good question, Andeep.

Well, Sam said, "A material is what an object is made from." Well done, Sam.

That's one of our keywords.

Well, these are different types of materials: fabric, wood, and paper or cards.

You might recognise these.

We're ready for our next check for understanding.

Are you sitting comfortably? Brilliant.

So what is a material? What is a material? A, what something does.

B, what an object is made from.

Or C, what something is used for.

Pause the video now and have a little think.

Welcome back.

So what is a material? It is what an object is made from.

Well done, everyone.

So different materials can be used in different ways and they might look different in each puppet.

So here's some fabric and you can make some socks or another item out of the fabric, but they all will look different, all different colours, all different designs.

Wood, again, pieces of wood.

You might use some lollipop sticks at school, but a wooden spoon is still made of wood, but it looks different again.

So we're ready for our next check for understanding now.

Hope you were listening really carefully.

Brilliant.

So which photograph shows fabric, A, B, or C? Pause the video now and have a little think.

Welcome back.

So which photograph shows fabric is A.

Well done, everyone.

Sam was busy exploring some puppets and she said, "When I took the puppet apart, I noticed this pattern, which used a thread to hold it together." Can you see the pattern? When we disassemble, we look for how the object was put together.

Did you notice any thread which made the pattern and held the material together? There are lots of different joining techniques that can be used to join different parts of the puppet together.

So you might notice some staples, some glue, some tape, or thread.

Sometimes puppets are joined using more than one joining technique.

Thread can be used to join material together.

And this is called sewing.

You might see some of these patterns, for example.

Parts are added to the puppet to add detail, and this helps the person to know what the puppet is.

So for example, the ears were added, the nose and the teeth on this rabbit puppet.

This is a shadow puppet and it makes a shadow on the wall.

It's a shadow puppet of a fish.

If we disassemble it, we can see that it's made using a piece of blue card stuck onto the pencil using a piece of tape.

And this is a rabbit hand puppet.

And this puppet goes over the person's hand and is usually made of paper, card, or fabric.

If we were to disassemble this, we can see it's made using felt and joined with stitches.

It has got extra detail like the ears and the eyes and nose and the mouth.

We're ready for next task now, Task B.

And I want you to work with a friend, use a magnifying glass to find out how puppets are made.

First, how are they joined together? Secondly, what are they made from? And thirdly, what is special about each puppet? Pause the video now and complete Task B.

Welcome back.

Did you manage to explore some puppets? Well done.

You might have said the sock puppet was made from fabric, wobbly eyes, and a rough fabric tongue.

The eyes and tongue were taped in place using double-sided tape.

You could have said the stick puppet was made from a wooden lollipop stick with a piece of decorated paper, joined to it using PVA glue.

And finally, you might have said the hand puppet was made a soft fabric with wobbly eyes and a pompom nose.

It looked like it got stitches, so we couldn't take it apart.

We've reached the end of our lesson for today and hope you've had lots of fun exploring puppets.

I wonder if you'd show me a thumbs up if you feel you've met these learning points.

Are you ready? Brilliant.

There are many different designs of puppets for different purposes.

Well done.

Disassembling puppets allows designers to look at the stitching techniques.

Brilliant.

You might have also noticed some other joining techniques in your puppets and other materials you looked at.

Well done, everyone.

Well done for working so hard in today's lesson.

See you soon.

Bye.