I found this gem by Laurie McBride for the first verse of "On a Golden Springtime". It is a terrific idea for Junior Primary and she reported that even the 11 year old boys exclaimed "cool" by the time she was done!
You will need the following materials to make the puppet:
- 2 pieces brown felt, cut out together in the shape of a seed
- 1 black marker
- 1 plastic sunflower (or any flower you've got on hand)
- 1 Green thread, or strip of felt
- Hot Glue
1. Sew the brown felt pieces together with the flower sewn in at the top. Leave the bottom open for your hand to get in.
2. Hot glue the Green thread/felt from the flower down to the opening of the puppet, like a stem. You may also want to glue the flower as well, to bolster the seam.
3. Fold inside out and draw a "sleeping" face on one side and an "awake" face on the other
On a golden springtime......
just hold up the asleep side of the seed with your right hand
Underneath the ground.....
move the seed below my left arm- which I held parallel to the floor as to represent the ground.
A tiny seedling lay asleep until the sun shone down...
I turned my hand 90 degrees so that now the seed was sideways and looked like it was sleeping.
Awake, awake oh little seed, push upward to the light....
the seed slowly goes upright again and moves upward towards the parallel arm.
The day is bright with all your might push upward to the light.....
Have the happy face side of the mitten exposed now and have it "grow" up from under the "ground" and once completely above the parallel arm/ground I used both hands to start turning the "mitten" inside-out and therefore expose the sunflower which has been hidden up until this point. This gives the "illusion" that a flower is growing from the seed and it looks like it is on a mound of dirt when the mitten is inside-out.
