A hands-on puppetry workshop for children aged 5 to 11 to make puppets from found objects and bring them to life through drama games and storytelling.
Cracking Slate are running Tiny Giants at Trestle Arts Base on Friday 30 October, a puppetry workshop for children aged 5 to 11. The whole point is to take everyday, overlooked materials and turn them into puppet characters. Each child is guided step by step to make their own from found objects — newspaper, tin foil, scraps of plastic, fabric, and even old socks — and then brings it to life through drama games and storytelling. The session builds towards a short group performance, and everyone takes their finished puppet home afterwards.
Cracking Slate is the company behind it, and they describe themselves as empowering young people to become the directors of their own stories. They tour participatory shows and creative workshops to theatres, libraries, and schools, so this is right in their wheelhouse. The workshop is hands-on from the start, and since it's aimed at 5- to 11-year-olds, it's designed to be playful rather than a formal class.
The venue is Trestle Arts Base on Russet Drive in St Albans, a converted chapel in Highfield Park that now works as a performing arts centre. It houses a theatre, a dance studio, a meeting room, and a café gallery, all run by the registered charity Trestle Theatre Company. It's a proper creative space, which fits the kind of thing they're doing here.
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Tiny Giants runs from 10:30am to 12:30pm on Friday 30 October, so it's a mid-morning session rather than an after-school one. Tickets start from £8 per person and are flexibly priced. If you've got kids in that age bracket and they're into making things, this is a good way to spend a couple of hours.
