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CHANDIGARH
WEDNESDAY
SEPTEMBER 02, 2020

PUPPETS ARE EASY TO

GIRAFFE SOCK PUPPET

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MAKE ‘N’ LOTS OF FUN
Puppets are toys that are creative and full of fun. Puppetry is an activity 1
ITEMS REQUIRED:
Pipe cleaners, Pom poms in assorted sizes,
Googly eyes, Small yellow or orange pom poms
can be used for beaks but you can also opt for
card-stock, hot glue.

that attracts people of all ages. Would you like to try your hand at METHOD
■ Cut the pipe cleaner into 4 pieces. 2 pieces are 1
making puppets? Just follow these easy steps. 3 inch long, 2 pieces are 2 inches long.
Bend the longer pieces in half to form the ears.
BROWN PAPER BAG PUPPET 1
■ Glue one end of the shorter pieces into the

SHADOW PUPPET centre of the pom poms for the giraffe horns.

FINGER PUPPET 1 2 ■ Get your paint and brush ready. Choose slightly
watery paint like tempera/acrylic because thicker
paints may not sink into the sock fibres easily.
■ Put the sock onto your hand with your fingers
2 going into the toe of the sock and your thumb
going into the heel.
■ Paint random, misshapen spots on the sock. For a

1 ‘realistic effect’, the spots can be smaller as you go

closer to the head.
■ Paint two black spots on the nose for the nose
holes.
1 3 4 3 ■ Use just a drop of hot glue to stick each of the
googly eyes, pipe cleaner ears, and pom pom
horns onto the head.
■ Just put a drop of the glue the size of a
small pea where you want the parts, and

2 stick them on.

■ Play with your sock puppet!

2 ITEMS REQUIRED:
METHOD and around the entire eye and eyebrow.

3 Crayons markers or coloured pencils, Brown

paper bags Scissors, Glue stick, Half face
■ Print out the half face pattern of any
character or animal.
■ Glue the white pieces to the coloured face.
■ Now use the existing pattern and the

3 patterns, Construction paper white

ITEMS REQUIRED:
Empty cereal box, 1 sheet of
ITEMS REQUIRED:
Pipe cleaners, Pom poms in assorted sizes, Googly
eyes, Small yellow or orange pom poms can be used
for beaks, but you can also use card-stock, Hot glue
METHOD
■ Make puppet’s pom pom head. Glue eyes
and nose or beak onto a large pom pom.
1 ■ For bunny ears: push a couple of pipe
cleaner loops into the top of the head and
secure with a bit of hot glue.
■ In a twisting motion, push a pipe
cleaner up into the bottom of the pom
pom and attach with a bit of hot glue.
■ For chick’s wings, twist a second pipe
cleaner into a figure 8 and secure to the
first pipe cleaner.
2 Tape the waxed paper
■ For bunny’s ears, cut a
second pipe cleaner in half.
Form both halves into a U
shape and push into the
pom pom. Secure with hot
glue.
■ Twist the puppet’s pipe cleaner body around
3 your finger to form a spiral. You may have to
cut a bit off to shorten it to fit your finger.
METHOD
■ Start by opening the cereal box so
that it’s one big piece. Don’t tear or
wax paper, Dowels or craft
cut anything as you will be putting
sticks, Black construction
the box back together.
paper, Tape, Scissors,
Glue stick, Desk lamp ■ From the front panel, cut a
rectangular hole, leaving about 3/4
inch border. Repeat this process on
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the back panel as well. Don’t throw
away the pieces you cut out as they
can be used to make the puppets.
■ You will be reassembling the box
inside out, so go ahead and crease all
of the existing creases, only in the
opposite direction. This will make it
easier to reassemble.
■ Trim your piece of waxed paper to
fit neatly over the opening
(covering the borders as well)
on one side of the box.
over the opening.
Reassemble the
box by
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and other colours, Brown and black
1 ■ Take a sheet of coloured and a sheet of
white construction paper. Stack them
2 additional "right side" pattern to cut out the
eyes. Colour the pupils brown and the centre
markers, Scissors, Glue stick together and fold them in half like a greeting black and colour the eyebrows black. Colour
the nose black.
card.
■ Place the straight edge of the half-face ■ Cut out the actual eyes and eyebrows.
pattern along the folded edge of the 3 ■ Glue the pieces to the face and draw on a
construction paper. smile.
■ Cut along the lines of the outside of the ■ Glue the completed face to the bottom flap
following pattern only, cutting through both sheets of of the paper bag.
the crease lines construction paper. ■ To finish off the paper bag animal character
2 and taping it all ■ Next, remove the coloured face-shaped puppet, cover the front of the bags with
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back together. The inside piece, leaving only the white face. coloured paper and a strip of white paper for
of the box should now be on Place the pattern onto the the belly.
the outside. white face and cut out ■ Now you have an animal character brown
■ Cut out puppet shapes from black the muzzle.
paper bag puppet!
construction or craft paper. You can
.
3 freehand your own characters, or take
printouts of silhouettes.
■ Tape a dowel or craft stick to the back of
the puppet.
■ To make sturdier puppets, use a glue stick
to cover those extra cardboard pieces you
saved from the cereal box with construction
paper. Cut out the patterns from the paper
covered cardboard.
■ Now that you are ready to put on the
show, all you need is a desk lamp. Set up your
box theatre on a table or chair and position
your lamp behind the box. The puppeteer
should be able to position the puppets
behind the theatre so that the
light shines through.

llS C H O O L EVENTSl MIND GAME

SUDOKU MATHDOKU

Place numbers into

the puzzle cells so
that each row and
column contains each
of the digits from 1 to
5. No number is to be
repeated in any row or
column. Each bold-out
lined cells contain a hint
-
of a number and one of
the mathematical sym-
bols + x - /. The number
is the result of the
operation represent-
ed by the symbol to the
digits contained.

IN THE RIGHT COMPANY

A student of Green Land Convent School, New Subhash Nagar, Ludhiana,

taking part in online Anant Chaturdashi celebrations.\

Kids make Ganesha idols SCRAMBLE

using recycled material Solve the four

anagrams and
move one
letter to each
PXEII
IJTSO
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LUDHIANA : Green Land Convent
School, New Subhash Nagar, Ludhi-
ana, organised various online compe-
titions on the occasion of Anant
Chaturdashi.
Students from pre-nursery to Class
8 made eco-friendly Ganesha idols
*
using Play-Doh, hangings with recy- square to form
cled material, paper lotus throne four ordinary ETYCLU * * *
and Ganesha-themed rangoli. words
The students also decorated RUFFED * * *
modak thalis using eco-friendly Now arrange the letters marked with an asterisk (*) to form the answer to the Palestinian parrot breeder Nash’at Etmeizi sits among some of his birds
material such as flowers, rice riddle or to fill in the missing words as indicated. at his farm in Idna village near the West Bank town of Hebron. For more
and clay. ___ strengthen the mind, as labour does the body. –Seneca (12) than a decade, Etmeizi has been breeding a wide variety of parrots and
Answer: Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body. –Seneca has a large number of customers including Israelis. AFP

Solutions
Kids learn healthy PRICEY GEMSTONES
eating habits Kantilal jeweller
is training his
LUDHIANA : Various activities were son Maniklal to
conducted by Bhartiya Vidya Man- take over the
dir (BVM), Udham Singh Nagar, to business. He
mark National Nutrition Week. keeps the
gemstones in a
Students took part in a role play special box with
activity, decorated plates with 16 compart-
nutritious food and made posters. ments. By
Mothers also shared their healthy looking at the
combined value
and nutritious recipes. of all the
SUDOKU SOLUTIONS
Addressing the students, diet precious stones
consultant and nutritionist Kan- in each column
A student of BVM, Ludhiana, taking chan Deep Kaur apprised students and row,
Maniklal has to
part in the online activity. of the significance of this week. derive the price
of each stone.
Poor Maniklal is
all confused.
Online counselling sessions for students Can you help
him? ( 1k =1000)
LUDHIANA : AKSIPS-41 Smart School experiences and doubts regarding
completed the first phase of online the Covid-19 pandemic.
‘friendly meet with the counsellor’ They were encouraged to turn
for students of classes 6 to 12. to online counselling whenever MATHDOKU SOLUTION
The sessions were conducted by they felt the need. The students
school counsellor Tannu Kapila. The shared their experiences of staying Pixie, joist, cutely, duffer
objective of this meet was to give indoor and talked about the new Amrita Bharati Features
Answer: see picture SCRAMBLE Solution Words:
children a platform to voice their skills they had learnt.