puppet theater

The girls spent a Saturday turning the market stand into a puppet theater. Amelia wrote an elaborate story and script called "Helenour: Goddess of Strange Things." I'm always amazed at how easily her ideas seem to come. I love to see her creativity in action. Both the girls worked on designing and making the puppets and the backdrops for the different scenes. I loved listening to Elsa read her parts. She always reads with a lot of expression. I can't remember the whole story, but I think Helenour had a singing toucan named Reyin and there was also a wizard who lived in an ice cream-shaped building and he had to defeat a giant eraser that was going to erase the forest.

The announcement and unveiling of the theatre.

the nutcracker.

Maybe one year we'll actually go see the Nutcracker but this year the girls and I had fun making this cute Nutcracker Suite puppet theater (pattern from Sarah Jane Studios).