Hands-on puppetry workshop for children aged 6-11 to make puppets from found materials and create a short performance together.
Tiny Giants is a puppetry workshop for children aged 6 to 11, running at Lincoln Central Library on Tuesday 27 October from 10am to 12pm. It's a hands-on session that turns everyday, overlooked materials into characters, and each child goes home with the puppet they've made.
The making part is the first half. You work with things you'd usually bin — newspaper, tin foil, scraps of plastic, and even old, clean socks — and build a puppet from them. The character comes from the materials themselves: you're encouraged to imagine the journey those bits of scrap took to get to you and let that shape who your puppet is. There's a step-by-step guide to the build, so it doesn't matter if you've never made anything before.
Once the puppets are finished, the focus shifts to bringing them to life. The group works through drama games and storytelling, and together you'll devise a short performance in which your characters set off on an adventure through an unfamiliar landscape. It's as much about the acting and the story as it is about the making.
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The session is run by Cracking Slate, a company that works with young people to help them become the directors of their own stories, and tours participatory shows and creative workshops through theatres, libraries and schools. The workshop is free, but booking is essential. It runs from 10am to 12pm on Tuesday 27 October at Lincoln Central Library, Free School Lane, LN2 1EZ.
