Carrying out in reality.

My puppet is finished! It is an orange cow, as long as I haven´t the colors needed to paint it in a traditional way (black and white). What is more, the cows which insipired me to do this puppet weren´t like common cows, as they were painted in such different ways. For that reason I can say my cow is nearly one of them!

In this point I would like to add something. During my teaching practice they have asked me to prepare some lessons, one of them about the creativity or something related to art. I have been thinking a lot on it, as I 

didn´t know what to do. After some time thinking I though about carry out an activity learnt in our art class here in Ghent. I always say that in these classes we received some practical knoledge, so why not use it? This way, each child in my class made their own puppets following the same steps we followed in class. 

1. Each child will take a piece of paper and he/she will roll it. That piece of paper will be the part of the puppet in which the children will introduce their fingers to move the puppet, so the longer they have the fingers, the longer piece of paper should take. 
2. Then, each child will take a little plastic ball and they will stick the rolled piece of paper to the ball. For that, they will use adhesive tape. It is important that the rolled paper and the ball are well stacked, as long as they both are the structure of the puppet. 
3. After, I will make a mixture of papier mache and water (I will do the mixture before the class starts) and I will put the mixture in front of the class. Bearing in mind that they are 20 children, I will separate the mixture into two different bowls, for them to be easier to take it. I will show them in a little demonstration how they can use that mixture and they will start using it. They can do the shape they want in order to make their animal puppet. 
4. Finally, when they finish with the shape we will leave the puppets drying till the next lesson, so that we can continue next week.

In this moment they all have finished their puppets and for the next lesson they will start painting and decorating them. It was a really succesful class for me, my teacher and the children, so I think as long as I have the opportunity I will repeat it in the future.