SPOON PUPPET
Storytelling with spoon puppets promotes intellectual development, inspires imagination, improves communication abilities through speech, and fosters creativity. Spoon puppets are created by combining real objects, musical instruments, soft toys, household items, and puppets. This method is typically successful when using sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
CONCEPT & METHOD
Concept & Method (Kröger & Nupponen, 2019)
Visual Props
This method suggests using visual props including such scarves, hats, blankets, and puppets to instruct positional concepts, dramatise holiday ideas, as well as represent ethnic customs.
Multisensory
The text provides differing theories for getting going with puppets in a multisensory way, such as trying to introduce puppets to kids, giving them identities, and assigning them various duties in the classroom.
PROCEDURE
Prepare the materials for spoon puppet storytelling activity according to the story of 'The Little Red Riding Hood'.
Plastic spoons
Glue
Cardboard
Printed Characters: Little Red Riding Hood, Wolf, Grandma, Mother, Man with axe
Printed Background (Grandma's house, jungle, Mother's house)
A pair of scissors
Apply glue on the printed character and paste it on the spoon. Repeat this step for all characters.
The background can be glued up to a piece of cardboard.
Move the spoon upward and downward, side to side, or in spirals while holding the handle of the spoon to make the spoon puppets appear to be moving,
Carry out the activity.
Students can also use an alternative way of creating spoon puppet which is by using googly eyes, marker pens, string and fabric to create the character on the spoon.
LEARNING OUTCOME
VOCABULARY FOCUS
The storytelling technique applied was to enable students to increase their vocabulary in terms of parts of the body such as ears, eyes and face, as well as verbs in the past simple which include words such as jumped, knocked and lived.
READING SKILLS
The storytelling method is also with the purpose to assist students to increase their skills in identifying the sequence of events in the story line and also the characters used throughout the story itself.
CROSS- CURRICULAR CONNECTIONS
The storytelling is also intended to allow students to gain other curricular skills such as mastering art in terms of creating artworks for the storytelling and also using music as well as the inclusion of science in terms of part of the body.
CHARACTER & BACKGROUND
Little red riding hood
Mother
Mother's house
Grandma
Jungle
Wolf
Flowers in jungle
Wolf in bed
Grandma's house
Man with axe
THE LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
A young village girl lived with her mother which was loved by everyone and called ‘The Little Red Riding Hood’. One day, her mother asked her help to give her grandmother a piece of cake and a bottle of wine due to she is weak and ill. Her mother advised her to walk nicely and do not run off the path.
She sets out, and while planning to travel through the forest, she comes across a talking wolf who wants to ask her where she's going. Little Red Riding-Hood informs him she's going to see her grandma, and the wolf inquires as to where she lives. Little Red Riding-Hood informs him that she lives in the half a league from the village. When Little Red Riding-Hood walks slowly to her grandmother's house, selecting flowers inside the forest, the wolf sprints.
When he arrives, he knocks and pretends to be the woman's granddaughter, bearing meals for her. The grandma, who is ill in bed, tells the wolf to pull the hook and come in, believing somebody to be the little Red Riding-Hood. The wolf does so and immediately attacks and devours the grandmother. Then he crawls into bed as well as pretends to represent the woman he's just rudely devoured.
While Little Red Riding-Hood finally appears and opens the door, the wolf tries to pretend to be the girl's grandmother, whose voice is hoarse due to'she' having a sore throat. Little Red Riding-Hood opens the door and is surprised by her grandmother's big arms ('all the better for embracing you, my child!' her 'grandmother' responds), her deep voice ('all the better for greeting you'), her big ears ('all the better for hearing you'), her big eyes ('all the better for seeing you'), and her big teeth ('all the better to eat you with!').
And with that, the wolf devours Little Red Riding-Hood. Fortunately, a huntsman was walking across the house. He rescued the little red riding hood and grandma and managed to kill the wolf.
ENJOY THE STORY!!!
Here is an example of how the spoon puppet activity was carried out.
FALSE START TECHNIQUE
This technique entails beginning the story with such a false or deceptive premise, leading the audience to think one thing is taking place when something entirely different is happening. This has happened when in the story Little Red Riding-Hood was asked to compete by the wolf regarding who will reach first at her grandma’s house and rather than any indication that the wolf will end up to disguise as her grandma and devour her instead.
This technique may be employed to cause friction and intrigue in the story, keeping the reader interested and engaged. The friction caused by the fact that the wolf had from start as only a talking wolf, but ended up as the one who disguises as her grandma and eat her. The suspense created by this technique has created a story-ending unlike the usual ‘fairytale’ ending.
Activity suitable for Intermediate Level pupils
This activity is suitable for intermediate level pupils due to the visual aids such as the spoon puppet that can assist pupils in better visualizing the characters and events of the narrative, facilitating their understanding of the plot. This activity also uses a simplified language which is easier to understand.
REFERENCES
Kröger, T., & Nupponen, A. M. (2019). Puppet as a Pedagogical Tool: A Literature Review. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 11(4), 393–401. https://doi.org/10.26822/iejee.2019450797
Spoon puppet superheroes | Activities. (n.d.). Vue-frontend. https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/spoon-puppet-superheroes/
Ladybird Books Ltd, 2016 . Little-Red-Riding-Hood-Lesson-Plan-LADYBIRD-READERS-LEVEL-2.pdf (ladybirdeducation.co.uk)
Llc, C. P. (n.d.). Little Red Riding Hood Storyboard by rebeccaray. Storyboard That. https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/rebeccaray/little-red-riding-hood