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Skits and Puppet shows

Skits and Puppet shows. Skits. Heather Bowen Mulvihill. Types of Plays:. Role-playing Pantomime Charades Traditional plays and skits Puppet shows. Why do we have plays?. Entertainment and Creative expression Recognition Practicing public speaking

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Skits and Puppet shows

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  1. Skits and Puppet shows Skits Heather Bowen Mulvihill

  2. Types of Plays: • Role-playing • Pantomime • Charades • Traditional plays and skits • Puppet shows

  3. Why do we have plays? • Entertainment and Creative expression • Recognition • Practicing public speaking • Self-confidence and Personal satisfaction • Relate information • Importance of team work and cooperation • Develops powers of observation, coordination, and timing, listening skills • Achievements and Electives

  4. Achievement and Electives: • Tiger • what to do if lost? • How to react in house fire. • Elective 20-Public Service Announcement • Elective 21-Puppet show • Wolf • elective 1e, mask for a skit • Disability awareness • story of Akela • Bear • achievement 4, Tall tales • achievement 8, local history • achievement 11, Be ready • elective 10, masks • elective 13, magic

  5. Achievements and Electives: • WEBS • Showman • Puppetry • Music • Drama • Cub Scout Academics Belt Loop and Pin • Music • Disabilities Awareness • Good Manners • Nutrition • Heritage • Languages

  6. choosing a play: • Age of Scouts acting • Target audience • Avoid: • Racism • Divorce • Love Stories • Sexuality and Profanity • Unpatriotic themes • Gruesomeness and Disrespect • Physical Disabilities • Nationalities • Physical characteristics • Religious beliefs “If it isn’t fun for everyone, it isn’t fun.”

  7. Choosing a play cont’d • Don’t be afraid to alter to fit your needs • Add characters • Rewrite lines • Add props • Add sound effects • Reassure the actors that the audience is laughing with them not at them

  8. Sound effects • Add appeal • Give a spark • Give a shy scout the roll of soundman • Pre-record sounds • How-to Book, page. 5-14, 5-29 • Coconut shells--horse hooves • Paper crumples--fire • Beans in cans--rain and hail • Metal cookie sheets--thunder • Fan for wind • Spray bottle for mist or rain

  9. Scenery: • Create your mood • Set the scene • Bed sheet back drop • Corrugated cardboard • Science project tri-folds • Look for patterns in coloring books • Have the scouts fill in with paint what you have sketched • Keep in mind the audience view • Keep perspective and size in mind

  10. Costumes: • Plastic garbage bags • Paper bags • Cardboard boxes • Wigs & Masks • Halloween Costumes • Dad’s closet • Goodwill • Salvation Army • Yard sales • No cross-dressing!

  11. Make-up: • Halloween make-up • Mom’s make-up • Cornstarch for hair powder • DO NOT USE: • Latex paint • Sharpies • Tempura paint • Mr. Clean erasers • Strong odors

  12. Resources: • usscouts.org • Cub Scout Leader “How-To” book • Cub Scout song book • Group Meeting *Sparklers* • Cub Scout *Magic*

  13. Write Your own Play: • Consider your available space • Consider the boys in your den • Number of actors • Give every boy a part • Kind of actors (scouts or puppet, or both) • Pick a subject or end goal • What’s your title (either serious or funny) • Play length • Keep it simple, keep it short • Your stage

  14. Write your own Play Part 2: • let the boys help write the skit • avoid long dialogues • scenery props should be simple • give stage direction • stimulate interest by walk-ons • be sure the audience can hear, • coach the boys to speak loudly, clearly, slowly • Use your Den Chief

  15. Puppets Shows

  16. Puppets, a history • No one knows • Egypt, China, India • Middle ages • Royalty • Scholars, poets, artists

  17. Tips for puppeteers: • Let the boys decide on type of play and types of puppets used • Use informal lines • Keep puppets and theaters in proper scale • Give puppeteers room • Frequent exits and entrances of puppets • Keep actions clear, simple and exaggerated

  18. Stages: • Hand puppet stages • Table with cloth over front • Cardboard box • A doorway • With a table or hanging twin sheets

  19. Lighting: • Darken the room • Illuminate the puppets • Goose neck lamps • Flashlights • Small spot lights • Christmas lights • Black lights • Dimmer switches • Don’t set lights where they shine in the audience’s eyes • Use tin cans as house lights

  20. Types of puppets:

  21. And Finally: • Practice, practice, practice • Don’t wait till the last minute, it’s not fair to the scouts……or the audience!

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