Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Make A Chinese Shadow Puppet Theater

Chinese shadow puppets are elaborately painted and decorated.


The Craft of Chinese shadow puppetry goes back thousands of senescence, and shadow puppetry itself is deriving To possess originated in India and China. Chinese shadow puppets are presented in a clean fashion, using honest a fair Shade background, normally silk or linen, a lucent source -- at early firelight or lamplight, then closest electrical luminous -- and figurines held ultimate the Shade to die the shadow puppets.


Instructions


1.4. Stretch your linen sheet tightly over the wooden frame and secure with hammer and nails.5.


2. Stand the frame up vertically. Situate the remaining 2-by-4 pieces of wood horizontally flush with the away edges of the frame. They will be parallel supports to keep the frame standing upright.


3. Hammer two to four nails through the frame and into each support until secure.


Constitute four 2-by-4 pieces of wood in a square shape on a horizontal surface. Hammer nails to attach the pieces of wood well-balanced until the square is secure. This Testament be the frame for the puppet theatre.


Position your light source, the lamp, behind the white screen. The light will shine toward the audience from behind, with the puppets being manipulated between the light source and the back of the white screen.