SPANISH PUPPETS

As in the previous class, we were working with puppets, I would like to show a kind of puppets that are quite typical in Spain.

In particular, there are two very famous people, who are dedicated to acting with puppets. In the following video, you can see what they do.Is very interesting to see how they do it because they must change the voice many times and also try not to notice them much.

 

Besides this, like here in Ghent is famous "Pierke Pierlala", in Spain, there are something similar "Giants and big heads."  
Giants are handled by people from within, which make it likely to move and dance to music.
The big heads, are people dressed carrying a very large head, and running after children.

 

PUPPETS

The other day, at class, we were working with different materials, like paper mache, clay, and Wayang. 

To produce your own puppil, you have to follow some steps: 

1. Prepare the paper mache with everything you need: 

2. When the paper mache is dry, and compact, you have to take a piece of cardboard, a small ball, and paste it, to give shape to the puppet. Once done, you should choose the figure you want to do and put the mass of paper mache you need. Once molded, the figure, have to let to dry for at least 24 hours.

3. As it dries, you can sew the costume to put the puppet, for don't see the cardboard. In my case, I chose green cloth and I gave him a very simple way, because I don't know sew well.

 






















4. After that, when your puppil dry, you can colour it as you want.  

5. And for finish it, you put the dress, and it's ready to play!! 

Besides this, we worked with clay, giving enough importance to the imagination, because the teacher said a theme or a word, and we had to create something related to this.

And finally,we create , by group, our own characters Wayang style, which, I had never heard of. At first it was quite difficult having to draw them because we were not sure how to do it, but finally this was the result:

 REFLECTION:
This class has allowed me to learn new ways to work the theme of puppetry with the pupils. I think the materials we used, are not typical, at least in Spain, used to make puppets. As for processing, if children are very young, they would need help from an adult, but if students are already primary school, I think they can make their own puppets handedly.
 
I find it quite interesting that playing with puppets, since students can imagine and create their own characters and give them life in addition to these.
This session I really liked and enjoyed creating my puppet and group working on a new style of characters such as Wayang.

Andrea Pérez

HAPPINESS

From my point of view, a place where you can find happiness, should be, that place where you can think in your things, have no preoccupations, and get the best of where you are. 

For this reason, in my case, that place where I can find happiness is my village, Gaibiel.
It is a village near Valencia, where you can breathe tranquility and harmony, as it is surrounded by mountains and not many people live there.

It's my father's village, so I usually go every weekend, and every time I go, I take power for the entire week. I love going, because in addition to having my family there, I can enjoy the calm that is not in the city.

In conclusion, I have chosen my village, because, in my case I think in a big city is hard to find a place where you are really happy, so this is where I can find happiness because long as I'm there I feel very happy and I never want to leave.

Andrea Pérez. 

THE BLUE BIRD

This is the story of two children who had lost the blue bird, so they traveled sea and air to find it.
 

First they walked through the African savannah, 

 where the ground is all black.

Then they began to climb to see higher.

As they didn't find the bird, they decided to get into the forest, but neither found it.

 They decided to stop for lunch, because they were very hungry,

and after all day looking for the bird, they went to sleep.

The next morning, they took the bike to go to looking for it, 

and suddenly, in a lake, they saw a bird feather,

and when they turned around, they saw the bird.

So finally, they were quickly to take the bird,  because they didn't want that the blue bird escape them more. 

 THE END