Puppet Play with Children, with Peggy Rock, a course for early childhood teachers, parents, care givers, baby sitters, or anyone who wants to have fun with puppets

July 7-11 at the Marin Waldorf School

8:30-10:00 Background, Theory and Practice of Working with Puppets
10:05-10:40 Eurythmy with Renate Lundberg
10:45-11:15 Morning refreshment break
11:15-12:45 The Art and Craft of Making Puppets

Puppetry is pure magic. It is the ancient art of animating inanimate objects to tell a story, shared by almost all cultures across the world. Used in many different contexts, spiritual, cultural and educational, it communicates even when there is not shared language, and captures the essence of playfulness. The ability to imbue life into the inanimate world is a hallmark of early childhood. Watch a five-year-old at play with trucks or dolls as she tells the story while moving the objects...That's puppetry. Anything can become a puppet, from a marionette with 50 strings to a handkerchief to a shoe. It depends on how it is imbued with gesture. If done with sensitivity, puppets can seem to come to life and touch us in incredibly deep ways. 

We will make a variety of simple puppets and explore how to use puppetry in rhythms of your day to bring humor, joy, peace and security to your home life. Come and make some magic!

Our eurythmy sessions will provide us with the opportunity to experience the archetypal gestures and relationships which we’ll be exploring in our puppetry work.