Sphoorthi Theatre

Using puppets in the classroom Teaching through puppetry is a learning experience for the teachers first then to the learners. Learning through play and play way methods are basic essentials in children's education, as this helps them in development of motor skill coordination, bring out special traits and hidden potentials in children. It is rightly said, each child is unique and special. In this process ‘Puppets’ can kindle imagination and interactive creative play. They help in streamlining the narration part even to the most hesitant and inactive child. Puppets help in focusing. They act as best model in training the students with attention problem. They help in retention of span of attention. Research and studies conducted in west has proved that puppet plays and puppet way of teaching has helped the teachers to identify problems not only related to academic learning aspects but more about sibling relations and sibling rivalries, loneliness, relationship with parents, interes...

Puppets with Reasons—Part I Puppetry is an age old performing art rarely heard in modern days. This performing folk art is played using puppets. Puppet is an object that comes into life with human manipulation. This manipulation of puppets creates fantasy in life. Puppeteers are puppet manipulators. Puppets can be anything from simple dolls with movements to stuffed toys or can also be a plain paper to book or any thing. Humans used hands to form shadow and thus the formation and manipulation of shadow puppets emerged. Shadow puppets are made by drawing finest craving and inch of delicate designs on the processed leather (skin of animals) and painted using vegetable dyes. Perhaps, this long process is followed for longevity in terms of storage of leather material that is used after through processing and cleaning well. Puppetry is the only performing arts that incorporate the finest essence of other performing arts like dance, music, story-telling and one act play and drama. Again this...