What a great morning!.....

What a great morning we had with David Poulton's "Wok and Wal" puppet performance! David told us about the 5 different 'genres' of puppetry - hand, rod, string, shadow and Bunraku. He introduced us to some improvisation puppetry using a mop, bucket and ball. His puppet Albert swallowed a very long sword (which got stuck!!). He told us a story called 'Stone Soup' about sharing. After that the naughty puppet Wok fell off a very high diving board after an elephant drank all the water in the swimming pool. David showed us how to make an elephant mask - we'll have to try it! Lastly he told us a story about looking after eggs in nests. We had so much fun......

• 'it was fun' said Tatenda
• 'the egg cracked and it was funny' said J
• 'the bird was funny when the crocodile came, because he was fighting the egg' said Harrison
• 'the puppet with the fat tummy was funny, and the puppet show was good' said Tessa
• 'I liked the small bird puppets best' said Angela
• 'the puppet show was funny - the whole stuff' said Finn
• 'it was funny when the dad crocodile came up cos the duck fell off' said Brooklyn
• 'it was funny when the bird got it's foot in the water' said Juliana
• 'the man puppet was so funny' said Ashleigh
• 'it was funny because the diving board went up and he fell off' said Kody
• 'I heard funny noises' said Emil
• 'He had funny moves with his hands and funny puppets. It was so funny when the puppet ate stones' said Benjamin
• 'it is funny when the puppet swallowed the sword and he couldn't get it out' said Harrison
• 'it was funny when that guy put his sword inside the chair' said Jamie
• 'it was funny because the puppets did some funny laughing' said Avan
  

You can have a look at some of his other puppets and shows here.

Here's a little of what we saw....