Inspired by Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, pupils embark on mini adventures around the gallery. They explore artworks to discover real and imaginary animals and then create their own fantastical puppet creatures.
Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are”, is read to the children and the opposing concepts of wild and tame, imagination and reality are discussed. In the gallery, we look at paintings and sculptures of ‘Wild Things’ and collect and draw ideas for puppets. In the studio, the pupils then have the opportunity to use the Interactive Whiteboard to further explore and develop ideas for their puppets using images created by Jim Medway.
Pupils then create their own ‘Wild Thing’ puppets using a variety of resources and use their puppets to act out the poem “Let’s Make a Rumpus”, joining in with actions, sounds and words.
"Your passion and enthusiasm really inspired us and the programme you put together is superb.”
Jo Probert, Gallery Educator