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Design Brief: Design and make a puppet to tell the story of the Ramayana in a class puppet show.

Sequence of Learning for Teachers
In this unit children make a hand puppet by marking out, cutting and joining pieces of fabric together to create a character from the story of the Ramayana. Children learn about different types of puppets and about some famous puppets such as Sooty and Sweep and the Muppets. They understand that a puppeteer makes the puppet appear alive. They draw a puppet design based on a character from the Ramayana. They learn how to thread a needle and the technique of the simple running stitch. They apply and practise the running stitch to create decorative stitching using Binca material. Stitching two identical templates together they create a basic puppet figure which they then decorate using a range of skills following their puppet design of a character from the Ramayana.

This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:

1. Investigate 1 – Let’s Find Out About Puppets & Focus Task 1 – Starting to Sew
2. Investigate 2 – What makes a Good Puppet?
3. Focus Task 2 – Making a Hand Puppet
4. Design and Make - Designing Your Puppet
5. Design and Make - Making Your Puppet
6. Evaluation Session

Some activities / sessions can be re-arranged or delivered in different ways in the learning sequence to allow for whole-class teaching and/or small adult-led sessions to take place at the same time.