Educators

Piccadilly Puppets specializes in educational entertainment! Our puppeteers are not only trained professionals in the art form, they are Teaching Artists as well! We are trying to meet your needs during COVID-19, whether we do smaller indoor shows, perform outdoors or share a show virtually, paired with a live demonstration so that we can engage students with a Q&A! We want to know what will help YOU teach, so if you have an idea for a short lesson taught by puppets, let us know.

Our shows are carefully developed to enhance Georgia Standards of Excellence, with guidance from collaborators like Arts For Learning (Young Audiences), Project WET and the Callaway Gardens Butterfly Center.
 
This page has a list of our shows with recommended grade levels and subject matter, and links to the study guides. Our study guides are written for elementary schools, but preschools can find useful material there as well. Each show has its own page with more information (except for the Biblical shows).
 

Butterfly Ballad Preschool-3rd,  Life Science, Conservation, Earth Day, Spring   Butterfly Ballad study guide

Cherokee Tales Preschool-5th, Social Studies, Literacy – SOON TO BE UPDATED (2020) Cherokee Tales Study Guide

Imagination Station Preschool-Kindergarten, Creativity

Kids on the Block Preschool-5th, Disability Awareness, Exceptional Children’s Week  KOTB study guide 2016

Once Upon a Time in China Preschool-5th, Literacy, Social Studies, Character Education, Chinese New Year  Once Upon a Time in China Study guide

Wish Tales Preschool-2nd, Literacy   The study guide suggests having the students make shadow puppets. Instructions and templates for the puppets are below. Wish Tales Study Guide

Shadow Puppet-Making plan

KHM shadow template

Owl shadow template

Horse shadow template

Secular Holiday Shows: Foxy Christmas Preschool-1st, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Preschool-5th, Piccadilly Holiday PreK-5th

Christian and Jewish Schools: Jonah: The Prophet Who Ran Away preschool-5th, Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors K-5th

Puppetry 101 preK and up, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts Puppetry

Puppetry101 Study Guide

Workshops to build Shadow puppets K-5th, Foam-and-cloth Hand puppets 1st-5th. For the classroom, tailored to fit your needs. Call or email for more information.

Students make paper bag puppets as part of a Puppetry 101 class. Good for Arts Days!
A girl holding a bright foam-and-cloth puppet with black yarn pigtails
A student putting the finishing touches on her cloth-and-foam puppet