Activity Idea: Shadows
Comments (14) 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)
Books:
Themocracy