Procession

of the
Species

Puppetry Handbook
2016

A Do-It-Yourself Guide
to Making
Puppets
Costumes
Masks
for the
Procession of the Species
May 7, 2016
Produced by the organizers, volunteers, parents, kids, and artists of the
Procession of the Species of the Butte Environmental Council, Chico, California.
 Endangered Species
An endangered (EN) species is one which has been
categorized by the International Union for Conservation of
Nature (IUCN) as likely to become extinct. Conservation
biologists use the IUCN Red List, where "endangered" is the
second most severe conservation status for wild populations,
following critically endangered. The United States and
individual states also have designations and laws protecting
endangered species. Numbers vary, but All about Wildlife California Condor
estimates that there are 5,000 species of officially
Endangered or Threatened animals and birds on our planet. Fish, insects, plants are also
endangered.

All About Wildlife (http://www.allaboutwildlife.com) and World Wildlife Foundation

(www.worldwildlife.org) and the US Fish and Wildlife Service (fws.org) are excellent sources
for learning about Endangered Species and their current status. They provide detailed
information about what animals and birds and habitats are most at risk, and what concerned
people can do to respond to those risks.

Both Federal and State laws protect Endangered Species. These definitions explain how
animals are classified.

Endangered Species (Federal). Any species that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a
significant portion of its range. Insect pests are not included under this act.

Endangered Species (State). Any native species that is in danger of extinction throughout all
or a significant portion of its range.

Threatened. Any species likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable
future throughout all or a significant portion of its range. Through regulations, the U.S.
Department of the Interior extends most of the federal endangered species protection to
federal threatened species.

Rare (State). One step below the threatened level, this

classification is used only for plants. It is defined under the
California Native Plant Protection Act. When the CESA was
enacted, all animals with a rare classification were
reclassified as threatened; however, rare plants were not.

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 Table of Contents

Inside Cover: Definitions of Endangered Species

Page

1—Table of Contents

2—About the Endangered Species Faire

3—More Ways to Participate

4—Puppet Making Workshops in Schools

6—Paper Sculpture Puppets

7—Platform Puppets
7—Flying Puppets
7—CD Puppet

8—Making Masks

10—Wearable Puppets

11—GIANT Puppets
11—Red Mite
12—Jolly Green Ecological Giant
12—Leo and Lionel Lions
12—Sea Turtle
13—Salmon
13—California Condor
14—Giant Puppet Construction Ideas

16—Celebrating your creations

16—Animal Council
16—Your Own Endangered Species Parade

17—Registration Form

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 The Endangered Species Faire
The 2015 Endangered Species Faire will be held on Saturday, May 7, from noon until 4:00 PM
at the Group Picnic Area at One Mile in Lower Bidwell Park. This free event, sponsored by the
Butte Environmental Council, is open to the whole community. The Faire will feature hands-
on learning from over 30 environmental groups. Children’s activities and games will deepen
children’s understanding and appreciation of our environment. All participants will feel a sense
of pride that they are a part of a community so actively involved in environmental causes.

The Procession of the Species

The Butte Environmental Council invites people of all ages—Individuals, groups, community
organizations, schools, families, Churches, nonprofits, dance schools, music schools—to
participate in a grand Procession of the Species. This event will occur from 12:00 to 12:45, on
Saturday, May 7, kicking off the Endangered Species Faire.

To Participate You can

• Create puppets, costumes, or props.

• Prepare parade rhythms or music.
• Create dance/marching sequences.

A limited number of classroom workshops are available. Please contact Susan Tchudi
(susantchudi@gmail.com to schedule workshops.

Although our emphasis is on endangered and extinct species, all species—animals, insects,
plants, fungi—may be represented in the Procession of the Species. Entries in the Procession
can be very simple or complex, large or small, but the idea is to use imagination, creativity,
and recycled materials for your chosen creation.

The Procession is meant to be a joyous and uplifting celebration of the natural world, as well
as a reminder of the threats to our environment and its creatures.

To participate, please fill out the registration form (page 17) and return to Butte Environmental
Council, 116 W. Second Street, #3, Chico, CA 95928.

for more information

Contact Susan Tchudi, 781-4122, or email susantchudi@gmail.com or call the BEC office at
891-6424.

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 More Ways to Participate
in the procession of the Species
You don’t have to make an elaborate puppet in order to participate in the Procession of the
Species. Here are the some other ways to participate in the Procession. Use your imagination
to create other aspects of nature, using recycled materials to create your endangered species
or element of nature. Be creative and colorful!

Costumes: You can dress like an endangered species—an animal, a plant, an insect, a bird or
a fish. You can make a costume out of fabric or paper or cardboard.

Music or Percussion: If you like to make music, you can get together with a group to create
sound to accompany the parade.

Representations of Nature: As a group or as an individual, you can represent other elements of

nature. For example, with crepe paper or construction paper, sticks and leaves, you can create
“Elements”—earth, air, fire, and water. Use paper to create flowers or trees for earth, blue
streamers for water, red streamers for fire, and streamers on sticks that can be waved to
represent the wind. Think of ways you could represent the seasons—bare tree branches for
winter, tree branches with leaves for spring, tissue paper flowers for summer, sheaves of
brown and orange leaves for fall.

Wear It on Your Back: Make a pair of wings from wire and paper and decorate them to look
like your favorite bird or butterfly. Or, using cardboard, create the shell of a turtle or the back of
a lady bug. Use string or ribbon to tie your design to your back.

Headdresses: Using cardboard, fabric, feathers, and/or paper, create a headdress to represent
an element of nature: the sun, flowers, beak and head of a bird, stars, a bowl of fruit, a wreath
of flowers.

Masks: Create a cardboard mask of your endangered species (animal, insect, bird, etc.) or
element of nature (flower, sun, moon, star, etc.) Wear clothes that reflect the nature of your
mask.

Easy Puppets on a Stick: Create cardboard figures and glue or tape them to the end of sticks
—a school of fish, a meadow of flowers, a sky full of stars, a garden of lady bugs. Or create a
cardboard puppet of your favorite animal.

Banners: Paint a banner of your favorite ecosystem—the rainforest, a pine forest, tropical
waters, the deep sea, vernal pools. Fasten large sticks on each end of your banner to be
carried by two people.

Learn the song we'll sing: "Feathers, Fur and Fins." Available on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF30YxVClyY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuXPYcEvYaw

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 Puppet-Making Workshops in Schools
The Procession Volunteers will provide four in-class workshops with your students and your
volunteer helpers:

Workshop 1: 30-minute introduction: Endangered Species, the Faire, and the Procession—
discussion of species and/or habitats the students would like to represent.

Workshop 2: One-hour workshop: Creating animal shapes with packed paper and tape.
Materials: newspaper and tape; two pictures of animal for observing animal shapes and
details. Children may also be encouraged to used recycled materials (plastic containers/
styrofoam), if available.

Workshop 3: One-hour workshop: Paper-macheing puppet shapes. Materials: Glue or liquid

starch newspaper torn into strips, brushes or sponge brushes, plastic or newspaper to cover
tables and floor.

Workshop 4: One-hour workshop: Painting. Materials (paint—poster paint, acrylic, or house

paint—brushes; pictures of animals for observing details). We encourage teachers to
conduct this workshop on their own. Teachers may need to provide time for those children
to finish outside workshop schedule.

We will provide suggestions for endangered species resources, and teachers and parents will
help children do further research to learn more about the creatures they select. Monica
Mendez has created a model she used in her classroom at Wildflower that can be adapted by
other teachers.

Individual classrooms might like to have a focused group of creatures. One class of fourth and
fifth graders researched migratory birds and fish; kindergarten children researched sea
creatures. Teachers might also have kids research an ecosystem—the plains, the desert,
riparian creatures, etc. This approach allows teachers to create a coherent curriculum and
children can learn from each other.

Schools and teachers provide:

1. Time for research and puppet-making before and between workshops
2. Make-up time for children who fall behind or miss workshops
3. Some aide/volunteer help, especially for kindergarten and first grade
4. Materials for packed paper/paper mache puppets:
a. Masking tape, about one roll per child
b. Newspapers for puppet bodies and paper mache, lots
c. White glue or liquid starch, 3-4 gallons per classroom
d. Paint—tempera or acrylic or leftover housepaint
e. Sticks—one per child (about 3’-4’)
f. Clean recycled materials—cardboard, plastic bottles, tyrofoam,
more
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We’ll provide specific information about what happens on the day of the parade, and teachers
will pass along that information to parents. We’ll also need a list of all the names of the children
and the creature puppets they will be bringing to the Procession. We encourage principals and
teachers to create celebrations at the end of the project where children may share their
knowledge and their animal creations. A small parade, a classroom event, or a school-wide
event can give children more opportunity to celebrate and demonstrate what they’ve learned
(see page 15 for an example: The Animal Council).

Research Project
The World's Most Endangered Species

A number of web sites list endangered species all over the world. The UK Guardian
created a list of the most endangered species in the world. Most of us have never heard of
many of these species. For classroom research and to find an idea for a puppet, check out
some of the following. The full website (URL below) also lists habitat, range, number of
living animals, and what needs to be done to save them

Plougshare tortoise Bullock's false toad

Pygmy three-toed sloth Araripe manakin
Tarzan's chameleon Bulmer's fruit bat
Seychelles sheath-tailed bat Leaf scaled sea-snake
Jamaican iguana, Jamaican Aci Göl toothcarp
rock iguana Actinote zikani
Spoon-billed sandpiper White bellied heron
Liben lark Giant yellow croaker
Singapore freshwater crab Galapagos damsel fish
Edwards's pheasant Hirola
Luristan newt Madagascar pochard duckling
Vaquita Bazzania bhutanica
Greater bamboo lemur Great indian bustard
Saola Common batagur, Four-toed
Red River giant softshell turtle terrapin
Javan rhino Franklin's bumblebee
Cebu frill-wing Roloway guenon
Red-finned Blue-eye Amsterdam albatross
Estuarine pipefish Santa Catarina's guinea pig

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/11/100-most-
endangered-species-planet

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 Paper Puppet Sculptures (Puppets on a Stick)

Overview: A stick puppet is a little like a lollipop, a stick with something on the top—the head
or the whole body of a creature (or plant) made of paper mâché and painted.

Number of people: This can be an individual or group project. Individuals might create a
puppet to be a part of a larger group (like a school of fish or a flight of birds).

What you’ll need:

A 2- to 3-foot stick: bamboo, dowel rod, a reasonably straight thumb-sized
tree branch
Newspaper: to create the animal sculpture and for paper mâché.
Masking tape: to create the newspaper sculpture (1 roll per puppet)
Glue: White glue or carpenter glue or starch for paper mâché
Paint: acrylic, tempera, or house paint, depending on durability you wish
Trimmings (optional): fabric remnants, construction paper, recycled materials
to create body parts
Steps:
1. Find at least two pictures of the animal you are creating. It helps to see the
creature in different “poses” and to know the coloring of the creature. Create a
sketch to capture the main features of the creature.
2. Using crumpled newspaper (unfolded and separated from other pages),
create a sculpture of your creature. Make the creature in one continuous piece.
(Don’t create the body parts separately and then try to connect them; they won’t
stay together well.) Use masking tape to hold the newspaper together as you
work. Shape the head upward from the body, the legs out from the body in one
continuous piece and wrap each part as you go. Shape the face, the ears to
resemble the pictures of the animal.
[Hint: You can build your puppet right onto your stick, taping it to the stick as you build;
however, if you have storage problems, you may need to create the puppets and add
the sticks later.]
3. Apply paper mâché using strips of newspaper or construction paper using
diluted white glue (about 50/50) or liquid starch. Place pieces on one at a time
and in a random pattern. Cover every part of the newspaper with paper mâché
strips and smooth with your hands. (This is a great use of leftover scraps of
construction paper; you can create the color of your animal with this paper
mâché material.)
4. When your paper mâché is fully dried, paint the puppet. Start with your base
color. Allow a few hours or more to allow you base paint to dry before you add
additional colors—spots, stripes, facial features.
5. When your puppet is completely dry, add the stick. Create a hole in the
puppet (taking into account how you want it to perch after it’s mounted) using a
screwdriver or a knife. Make the hole sufficiently deep to provide stability for your
puppet. Fill the hole with white or carpenter glue and insert your stick. Add more
glue around the stick to secure the puppet well, and place your puppet carefully
on the floor or a table top to completely dry.

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 Variations on the Paper Sculptured Puppet

Platform puppets

If you want to create a larger, collaborative project with more puppet makers involved, you
might want to create a Platform Puppet. The platform will have four corners, allowing two to
four puppeteers to carry the puppet together. The platform should be made of sturdy dowels or
bamboo, about 2-3 feet wide and about 3-4 feet long, depending on the size of the puppet.
Create a rectangle with the sticks and lash the four corners, so the platform base is sturdy and
leaving room on the end to create hand space. Use string or wire to create a floor for the
platform. Attach the puppet to the floor, using sting or wire to keep the puppet upright.

Flying puppets

Instead of mounting puppets to the top of a stick you can tie puppets like birds and butterflies
to a string and attach the string to the top of the stick. Secure both ends of the string well.
Warning: This makes the puppet heavier, so it’s best for lighter puppets or stronger
puppeteers.

CD Puppets:
Easy Stick Puppet for Preschoolers and Kindergartners

This easy puppet is good for making use of scratched up discs and in making lady bugs and
other beetles, turtles, octopuses, or any round creature. The process for the CD puppet is the
same as for other stick puppets, except that the CD or DVD is used as the base for the puppet,
and the paper sculpture is created on top of the disc.

Children wad paper into balls and tape those balls on the top of the disc to make a rounded
body. The puppet sculpture is then paper mached, and when dry, painted. Legs and feelers
can be added by gluing pipe cleaners to under body and head, and features can be added with
paint. The octopus can be created by gluing or taping streamers of fabrics to the underside of
the body.

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 Making Masks
Advantages: The advantages of masks are that they are not only large and easily recognizable in a
parade/festival setting, but also are easy to hang on a wall as an art piece to enjoy in your home.

Materials Needed: Flat sheet of cardboard, utility knife, duct tape, masking tape, newspaper, wood
glue, yogurt container, large paint brush (2 inch brush size approx.), acrylic paint to finish.

1. Cut cardboard into mask form. Cut out eye

holes and slit around the outside edge to create flaps

2. Bend flaps around outer edge to create a

convex surface. Secure flaps with duct tape around
the entire outer edge of mask.

3. Crumple balls of newspaper to create the

facial features and secure with masking tape
directly onto the mask. Tape tightly and
generously.

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 4. The ready-to-paper mache mask will be solid with tape and 3-D in form.
Attaching 2 handles on the backside will allow it to be easier to carry, if it is a large
mask.

5. In a large yogurt container, mix a ratio of wood

glue (75%) to water (approx. 25%)

6. Using your wide brush, brush the glue mixture

on to 2 inch newspaper strips and fully cover the
front side of the mask and the handles if you
made them.

7. Do one or two coats of paper mache

8. Once dry, paint the mask with acrylic house paint or art paint. The finished pieces will
be beautiful and durable.

Above: Masks in the process of painting. Right: Completed mask

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 Wearable Puppets
Advantages: Wearable puppets are puppets that the artist wears on their body and incorporates their
own appendages into the design. These puppets are fun because the wearer can move their body in
ways to animate the chosen creature. The most common type of wearable puppet would be a mask
with a costume, but the possibilities are endless.

An example of a wearable puppet would be this whooping crane. The head was built on top of an old
bike helmet with an infrastructure of chicken wire built up with paper balls, masking tape and paper
mache-ed. Some of the chicken wire was left exposed and thick wool string was tied on to create the
feathers in the back of the head

An excellent reference with lots of examples is <http://puppetco-op.org>

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 GIANT Puppets
So . . . What is a GIANT puppet? How big? Our rule
of thumb is that it is larger than the person who is
wearing or carrying it. (See the Gorilla, far right.)
Another rule of thumb is that it is often larger than
the critter itself. (See the giant bug, near right.) A
third rule of thumb, in case you have three thumbs.
is that a giant puppet can be anything you imagine
and build. (Check out this giant elephant below,
forty feet tall, with a platform that carries people.
This amazing beast "marches" each year in a
"Festival of the Spirt" in Nantes, France.)

Chico Procession of the Species, 2012.

There really are no precise rules of
thumb (#4) for building giant puppets;
each one is its own work of art involving
its own set of construction techniques,
frequently developed on the fly to solve
particular problems. So we will show you
a gallery of puppets that we've worked
on or seen built. Then we will describe
some basic techniques for designing a giant puppet and a variety of materials that we've seen
used successfully. While it's good to let your imagination flow, it also is important (as we've
discovered) not to be too ambitious and to have plenty of people to help out. (A giant
honeybee that we tried to build wound up in the recycle bin because we didn't plan the design
carefully enough and just didn't have enough kids on hand to complete the project.)

The Red Mite

This creature was our introduction to giant puppets and a

parade of puppets. The Red Mite was created by Cheetah
Tchudi for the Procession of the Species in Olympia,
Washington. Red Mites in nature are the size of a pin head, so
this really is a giant version. Cheetah built the shell out of a
large sheet of cardboard, cut to allow it to be rounded and used
paper mache and red paint for the finish. The legs are
"articuilated"—made out of individual tubes—and are controlled
by sticks as you can see in the photo.

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 The Jolly Green Ecological Giant

This 12-foot puppet was built by the Tchudi family for a

parade in Chico. The head was carved out of a big block of
styrofoam, then covered with felt: green for the face, orange
for a carrot nose, red for rosy apple cheeks. A vertical
polypropylene pipe (very light weight) was fastened to a
backpack, with a cross piece for the shoulders (padded with
cardboard to ceate bulk), to which were attached the
articulated arms. The whole thing was then draped with felt
to create a kind of robe to hide the operator. A viewing hole
cut in the chest of the puppet and then covered with a fine
mesh fabric that allowed the operator to see where he was
going. This puppet was later put into a storage shed and,
alas, was ruined by mice and water.

Leo and Lionel

This father and son lion team started out as sheets of cardboard,
which had V-cuts (instructions follow) to allow the head to be
roughly shaped. Paper mache was then applied to round out the
features, followed by a careful paint job. Big Leo was attached to
a backpack by a pole and draped in dark yellow cloth. Cheetah
Tchudi carried Leo in the Endangered Species parade and
actually mounted a unicycle to carry him around. Lionel, about
18 inches tall, rides in an ordinary book bag, his head peeking out
the top and over the shoulder of the wearer.

The Sea Turtle

Kathy Faith's Sea Turtle is a veteran of many
Chico area parades. It rides in a wheelbarrow as
you can see from both photos! This is basically a
cardboard and paper maché construction, with
shell, flippers, and tail made from cardboard. The
head can be made just like a stuffed paper
puppet: just ball up newspaper and then cover it
with mache. It is
mounted on the
wheeelbarrow,
and then a blue drape hides the mode of transportation. Like
so many puppets, giant or other, much of the effectivness
comes from the final paint job. With a giant puppet, you have a
large canvas, so a high level of detail can be achieved.

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 The Salmon
This amazing puppet models the endangered
Salmon. It was created by Ssmantha Zangrilli
and Cheetah Tchudi for Kids & Creeks. A
frame was constructed with hoops of
polypropylene pipe. You can see the hoops
underneat the fabric skin. Notice the lips,
which are also shaped from bent
polypropylene pipes. For the parade, four
people hoist the salmon, and they're off. This
is a spectacular giant puppet and always
brings a buzz of excitement from the crowd. And it is an excellent reminder, as are all
puppets in the parade, that we're doing this to draw attention to animals, fish, birds, fish, and
even insects that are threatened with extinction if humankind doesn't stop messing with their
environment and ecosystem.

The California Condor

The California Condor almost didn't make it. Due to habitat destruction and toxins (California
Condors eat dead animals, some of which had been shot by hunters using lead bullets),
Condor populations were down to 22 in 1983. With a conservation program created at the San
Diego zoo, populations have now increased to approximately 425--but the Condor is still
greatly endangered. This puppet was built by the 7-8th graders at Wildflower Charter School.
A pipe framework was created and the body was wrapped in chicken wire and covered with
paper maché. The head, neck, and feet were also covered with paper maché. We don't have
a photo, but great, flexible wings were created with pipe and could be flapped by pipes
attached to the wing tips. The body and wings were covered with black fabric. Then bicycle
engineer Ron Toppi voluntered to mount the whole thing on a platform raised above an adult
tricycle. Ron and the wing flapping team were a big hit in the 2013 parade.

Next: Giant Puppet Construction Tips

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 Giant Puppet Construction Ideas

!. Start with an idea and research. Just as you would with a sculpted puppet or a mask, pick
the endangered critter you want to create and then do research, including collecting lots of
photographs.
2. Draw a sketch of your idea. This doesn't have to be terribly detailed, but it translates the
photographs of your critter into what you imagine your giant puppet could look like. Here are
some sketches from the Puppeteers Cooperative. They have a wonderful page called "68
Ways to Make Really Big Puppets." <http://puppetco-op.org> In fact, you might want to go to
that site right now to get a sense of the range of ways you can build your puppet.

3. Figure out your support structure or understructure.

• Cardboard. See the section on making masks in this handbook to see how you can take a
plain piece of cardboard and cut and shape it. What works for a one-sided mask can work for
a head or even an entire body.
• PVC Pipe. This stuff is inexpensive and lightweight. Plus at the hardware store you can find
all sorts of connectors—elbows, u-turns, tees—almost like a big erector or lego set. You can
see this illustrated clearly in our California Condor puppet on the previous page. PVC pipe is
often used in conjunction with:
• Chicken Wire. We covered the Condor frame with chicken wire before putting on the paper
maché, but you can also skip the pipe and just roll, bend, and shape chicken wire into critter
heads, bodies, legs. It would be our first choice for all giant puppets were it not that it involves
wire cutters, and invariably there are sharp ends that can lead to bloodshed. Only work with
chicken wire while wearing good heavy duty gloves.
• Backpack frames. Backpacks, especially the aluminum frame type, are a particularly good
way to support a puppet and make for ease of carrying. This will also be combined with other
means of support. For example, with Leo the Lion head, vertical PVC pipes were lashed to the
backpack frame, and from there, to Leo's head. With the Jolly Green Ecological giant, a single
stout PVC pole was lashed to the backpack and up to the styrofoam head. A crosspiece was
then attached at the puppet's shoulder level, and the shoulder padding was added to that. A

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fair amount of improvisational engineering is involved in any of these connections. We've used
wire, tape, string, rope and gorilla tape to get a secure fastening between the backpack and
the puppet.
• The human body. See <http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Custom-Mascot-Costume>. This
site shows how to make a simple paper maché head (using a bike helmet as a mold) and, after
painting and decorating the head, using standard clothing of the appropriate color to create a
costume. (See also "Wearable Puppets," p. 8.)

Two Chico giant puppets. Left: Endangered Wolf, a

paper maché head-on-a-stick—the puppeteer caried the
stick and wore a grey blanket around his shoulders for
the wolf body. Right: Also a head on a stick, but with a
beautifully designed dress hanging below the head; the
hands are foam, controlled with a stick—the puppet uses
three operators: one to hold the pole, two to operate the
hands and arms.

Does this mountain man qualify

as a puppet? Perhaps not, but
it may give you other ideas
about how to create an
endangered animal.

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 Celebrating with Puppets

The Council of the Animals

As they have made their puppets, kids have also learned a good deal about their endangered
critter: where it lives, what it eats, who its enemies are, why it's endangered. In the Council of
the Animals, the students gather in a circle with their puppets and talk to one another in the
"voice" of their animal. The teacher can prime the discussion by asking: Who are you? Where
do you live? Who are your enemies? What do you eat? Why are you endangered? What will
it take to save you from extinction? This is also a terrific activity to do on a parents' night. Put
the parents outside the circle to observe. And if parents have some questions, that's all to the
good. To prepare for the council, make certain your kids have reviewed their notes and are in
good control of the facts. Also tell them it's OK if they don't know an answer. They can say
things like, "I don't recall" or "That's not something I can talk about."

Your Own Endangered Species Parade

Having your own parade is good preparation for the actual Endangered Species Parade at
Bidwell Park. It's a chance for kids to practice being their animal, moving their puppet in ways
that reflect its nature, and just being in public. This is a wonderful event for a whole school,
with the classes that have made puppets showing off for those who haven't. And also a good
event for parents' night. Hold the parade for all classes and parents and then possibly follow it
up with the Council of the Animals in individual classrooms. Pictured below are scenes from
Sherwood Montessori's parade and the 2014 Parade.

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 Registration for the Procession of Species
The Faire will be held Rain or Shine!
May 7, 2016 Deadline for Registration: April 22, 2016
You can also register online at becnet.org

[ ] Classroom Registration [ ] Group Registration [ ] Individual Registration

Name of School or Group: ______________________________________________________________

Number of Students and Grade Level: _____________________________________________________

Contact Name: ________________________________________________________________________

School or Personal Address:__________________________\__________________________________

City:___________________________________Zip:____________

Phone Number/s: _____________________________________________

E-mail: (print legibly) _____________________________________________

The species (or element, habitat or theme) you would like to represent (if known):

_____________________________________________

For non-school individuals or groups:

Description of your group (number of people; puppet? dance? other?):

_______________________________________________

Any muMusic you will play: _____________________________________________

Any othOther details which will help us place you in the Procession:

_____ We would like to have a workshop.

_____We will work on our puppet/costumes independently.

Submit online, or mail, or drop off application:

Butte Environmental Council

116 W. Second St. #3
Chico, CA 95928

530.891.6424