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Puppetry & Performance Art

Welcome to AccessArt: Puppetry & Performance Art

Finished pop-up puppet

Enjoy Performance Art resources on AccessArt.

These resources are suitable for a wide range of ages and in a variety of settings.

DIP YOUR TOES INTO PERFORMANCE ART

Explore these sample resources to begin your exploration of Performance Art

Dressing Up as as Fossils

Turning ourselves into fossils

Making Musical Instruments

Shaker sticks made from bells and sticks

Shadow Puppets and performance

Holding up a large shadow puppet of a palace

EXPLORE PERFORMANCE ARTISTS

Explore these performance artistso

Tomoko Kawao

Tomoko Kawao https://vimeo.com/226541019

Heather Hansen

Heather Hansen

Malaysian Shadow Puppet

Spirit of Kelantan (Wayang Kulit) https://vimeo.com/90989377

Explore Performance Art Mediums

Explore performance through different materials

EXPLORE DIGITAL MEDIA

Painting patterns using Draw and Tell digital painting tool.

Explore Paper

Shadow Puppets at Bourn Primary Academy

Explore Fabric

Painting The Sheet With Berry Ink By Mostyn de Beer

See All AccessArt Performance Art Resources

A group of children drumming

Tiny Art Schools: The Children’s Art School

Adding Crayon To The Portrait by Tobi Meuwissen

Talking Heads

A group of children taking part in a freeze frame activity.

Why Use Drama in an Art Lesson?

School children talking in a drama lesson

Drama Activity: An Art Conversation

A boy sitting on a chair

Drama Activity: Hot-seating a Character

A drama lesson taking place involving role play.

Drama Activity: Spontaneous Role Play

A group of children taking part in a freeze frame activity.

Drama Activity: Freeze Frame and Thought-tapping

Fairy Heads Inspired by Samantha Bryan by Nat Deane

Our Creative Community: Inspired by Samantha Bryan Part One

Fairy Inspired By Samantha Bryan Workshop by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Inspired by Samantha Bryan Part Two

Adding paint to ripped sugar paper.

Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Witch’s Capes

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Remembrance Day Peg Soldiers

Morris Mike by Nathan Ward

Which Artists: Nathan Ward

Rock Landscape by Toby Pritchard

Which Artists: Toby Pritchard

Felted and Embroidered Yellow Living Room by Gabby Dickson

Gabby Savage-Dickson: Felting & Embroidering Sets

Mr Hoppy and Mrs Silver on their Balconies by Rosie Hurley

Rosie Hurley: Esio Trot

showing differences in colour and tone with mark making

Movement Maps

Flying bird shadow puppets

Shadow Puppet Making and Performance

Two puppets showing variation achieved through different costume designs

Shakespearean Sock Puppets

Working collaboratively

Unesco: Celebrating the Power of Making!

Abstract face relief sculptures by Sharon Gale

Abstract Face – Relief Sculptures

filming on an ipad

The Making Of: The Shower Scene

Drama Exercises Explore Teamwork, Cooperation, Movement & Narrative

Making Papier-Mache Marionette Puppets Inspired by Characters in a Historical Painting

Making the t-shirt

Pop-Up Puppets Inspired by a Historical Painting

Colourful Skeleton

Dancing Bones

Lady, Dog, Bird

Making Finger Puppets

Carnival mask - SC

Making Paper Masks for Carnival and Mardi Gras

Fur Bikini-Clad Weightlifter!

Rio 2016! – Sporty / Sunbathing Dolls

Shadow Puppets at Bourn Primary Academy

Shadow Puppets and Whiteboards

Learner in the Art room at Frimhurst, Surrey

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Kaz Trinder

Hedgehog mask by a pupil at Milton Road Primary School

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Three

Pupil from Milton Road Primary School makes her animal mask 3D

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Two

Lepeord

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week One

Simple methods to create drama

Shipwrecked! A Shadow Puppet Play by Children Aged 10

Exploring form and function at D&T and Making Club

Years 3 and 4 D&T and Making Club

The goat stars again.

Teenagers Improvise a Shadow Puppet Play

Hedgehog

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Articulated Beasts

Finished articulated lion by Innes

Articulated and Animated Drawings by Teenagers at AccessArt’s Experimental Drawing Class

Cordelia "Doo" Spalding

Literacy Boost Project: James & the Giant Peach Garden by Cordelia Spalding

Animal Heads made by pupils in the Art Cabin at

Newspaper Heads by Sharon Gale

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Bad Cat: Inspiration for Art Week

Creating "dramatic" charcoal drawings

Set Design with Primary Aged Children

Turning ourselves into fossils

Dressing Up as Fossils!

Nina takes a photo of her puppet on a devise

Animating Puppets Using Mobile Phones and Tablets

Nina

Making Puppets with Mixed Media

Malcolm Arnold Concertina Sketchbook Washing Powder Box, Household Emulsion, Glue, Oil Pastel, Acrylic Paint, Pencil Work in Progress 2012—2013

Sketchbooks and Performance

The finished puppet

Making a Marionette

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