School Assembly Demonstration
Animal Stories
Ranka’s performance is followed by her highly popular and engaging demonstration, in which she shows students how they can
make their own puppets from easy-to-find, recyclable materials.
Giving Students Insight into the Creative Process
This demonstration gives students an insight into the creative process: the making of something imaginative, exciting, and beautiful--from simple materials. Even the liveliest student audiences become silent with fascination as they watch Ranka transform junk into wild animals.
We illustrate here part of Ranka’s demonstration—minus, of course, Ranka’s animated dialogue with students.
From newspaper, egg cartons, and pieces of cloth to a little alligator, whose feet are made from cardboard. And he bites!
From toilet-paper rolls and strings to snakes and monkeys!
From shoe box to wolf, this sleepy-looking wolf turns ferocious in a second.
Ranka’s performance and demonstration inspire as well as excite students, as illustrated by this PTA Assembly Coordinator’s letter (first on page), as well as these letters from students.
You can find more letters in: Letters & Drawings
