Silhouette Puppet Show Supplies

Series Summary

One of the easiest ways to introduce your child to the world of artistic exploration is to allow them the freedom to initiate and participate in their very own arts and crafts projects. One very simple but truly fun project for children and adults is the creation of a silhouette puppet show using a variety of art supplies and, naturally, creative vision! Parents who are drawn to such timeless and innovative hobbies as scrap-booking and homemade frame-making will delight in the project featured in this series. Your kids will love creating their own designs and watching their mind's eye create something for friends and family, and you will open your creative spirit wide as you help your child discover their artistic potential.

This free crafts video series will take you from choosing supplies to adding finishing touches to your silhouette puppet show. Learn how to gather supplies, cut, measure, construct and decorate your creation. Get started watching these videos and you’ll have a fun silhouette puppet show before you know it.

Video Transcript

"Today I'm going to show you how to make a silhouette puppet show. We're going to make the screen which the lights will be shinning on. And we're also going to make small caricatures which are going to create a shadow against the screen. And we're going to be able to move them around by touching them to some type of stick or pencil whatever is easier. And by moving them around we'll be able to actually make a puppet show that is really easy and it's a lot of fun. Let me show the supplies you're going to need. We're first going to need a ruler. And we're going to need some wooden sticks. The sticks we'll need some that are like skewers that have a sharp end. Because we're going to stick them into the Styrofoam. A Styrofoam board to create our screen. And we're going to need other ones without a sharp point on them. And those are going to be ones that we attach the black silhouette figure that's going to be our puppet so to speak. So, we're going to need both types of sticks. We're also going to need a brush for the glue that's going to be used for attaching the sticks to the screen so that we can stick it into the Styrofoam. We're going to need a pencil so we can draw the character on the paper first before we cut it. And that's why we're going to need the scissors. And we're going to use some Scotch tape for the border of the screen. We're going to be attaching, using a sift type of colored paper that's going to go around the clear tracing paper which you also see here. And that's going to create a border for the screen. And we're going to need some black card board construction paper. Doesn't have to be too thick. That's going to be used to cut out our caricatures. We're going to also need a piece of Styrofoam board that's going to be used to stick the screen, to hold the screen, once it's all glued together with the clear paper and the border around it. And that will make it stand upright so that we can flash a light against it. And then we can see the shadow of the characters from behind. So these are the supplies we're going to need to create our silhouette puppet show."