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Burmese Theatre: How to put on a shadow puppet show (KS2)

A series of learning/lesson activities in which children adapt traditional Jataka tales into a puppet show, compose theme music, make shadow puppets and a puppet theatre in which to perform.

Activity Sheets

Curriculum notes (for teachers and parents)

See some shadow puppet plays

  • The Golden Goose- Autoplay (flash file 867k), performed by children from South Brent Primary School and St Peter's RC Primary, Plymouth (2002).

  • The Hawks And Their Friends- Autoplay (flash file 1.9Mb), performed by Year 3 from Newtown First School, Exeter (2002).

Shadow Puppet Play
The Hawks And Their Friends

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