Activity Idea: Shadows
A dog? A deer? A rabbit? An ostrich? An ostrich!!! Yes! that’s what it is!!!
A dog? A deer? A crocodile? Our dog Belle? Hmmm……….
I was recently reminded of the fun ancient “unplugged activity” of casting hand shadows on the wall. My kids had never seen this before, but REALLY enjoyed it. I made these up myself, but if you really want to get into it, here are some web and book resources!
Internet Links:Shadow-Puppets.com
Shadow Puppets: Designing, Building, and Performing
Hand Shadows to be Thrown Upon the Wall (Henry Bursill), a free, public domain downloadable e-book from the 19th century (from Project Gutenberg) - or buy it in real book form below from Amazon
Make a Shadow Puppet Theatre
What Changes a Shadow’s Size (science experiments from NASA’s Kids’ Science News Network)
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Fun photos! :) Those hand shadows look very cool. :) Nice choice for the theme this week. :)
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Looks like you had some fun with this one :)
Mine’s up too.
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A perfect activity for unplugged shildren too! Great take on the theme. My photo is up please come and visit
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Used to do those all the time growing up and had so much fun. Great photos and thanks for sharing.
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what a great shadow show :) Happy Saturday.
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Aren’t shadow puppets just the most fun to make? They can be so many different things!
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Them was furry good shadow puppets - can you do cats? Hmmm…maybe you need a cat.
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ooh! thanks for the shadow-puppets.com link! *goes to study up*
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Nice to introduce future generations to something some of us took for granted growing up.
Come see mine.
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A giraffe! I bet it is.
I have to teach Wingnut these (if I can remember them!)
Great post (again!).
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Nice introduction with the books. Very nice shots for the shadow theme too. Have a nice weekend! http://crizlai.blogspot.com/2007/07/photo-hunters-shadow_14.html
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I can remember when we used to do this while camping. The soft glow of the lantern would enable us to cast great shadow puppets. Wow, I love your direction on the theme with shadows, it brings back some wonderful memories.
Thanks for visiting my blog and photo hunt also!
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Great shadows and a nice list of links about shadow puppets!!
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Great take on the theme!
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