Monday, April 27, 2009

NDOP 2009 - Earth Friendly Puppet Party


The ever-changing Texas weather threatened our NDOP but despite the brisk winds and ominous gray clouds the rain respectfully stayed away all Sunday. We had a very nice turnout of kids, parents and grandparents for our 11th Annual National Day of Puppetry event. We had not anticipated sharing the auditorium with voting machines, but since early voting starts today, the room was lined with blue voting booths both large and small.

Jesse & Elizabeth from the Southlake Library introduced the audience to the wonders of shadow puppetry plus tips for making shadow puppets from recycled cardboard. Some of the kids got to try their hands at manipulating the shadow puppets to the tune of Old MacDonald. Then the kids got to choose their own selection of pre-cut shadow puppets to take home.

Next everyone got busy crafting their own puppets from recycled boxes. Who knew that learning to curl paper strips would be so magical? As soon as everyone had finished his or her new puppet creation - the rehearsal began of our green fairy tale - "Rapunzel's Folly." Our dear Molly would have appreciated this as we carried on in the tradition of her "Champion Messer-Upper". The Plastic Bag Princess, the Clatter Man and the oh so messy Rapunzel were put on notice that we have had it with their slovenly ways. We all want a clean planet and we pledge to do our part to "Reduce, Recycle, Reuse, our planet we will not Abuse!"

A special thanks to Jim for the great recycled set decoration pieces. Jesse & Elizabeth, thank you so much for being a part of our puppet party!
Thanks also to Carol and the Audelia library staff - we are grateful for all your help in making our event run smoothly.
And a Texas sized thank you to all LSPG members and friends - what a wonderful team effort!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Earth Day 2009


Happy Earth Day 2009
See you Sunday at the NDOP!

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Boxes for workshop


LSPG Members: Remember to save your cardboard food boxes for the NDOP workshop - just flatten them because we will be turning them inside out for the workshop. Smaller boxes such as mac & cheese size, snack cracker boxes are good. What we don't use we will recycle. Bring them to the NDOP.