Sample Puppet by Jamie Hughes
Jeff continued Session 7 from Tuesday on helping children pray. The activity he taught was how to create and use a prayer cube to make it easier for children to get started praying. During the rest of the morning of our second day of teacher training, we
focused on creative story telling techniques. Melissa kicked off creative story telling with a revival of Jesus calming the storm. The Kenyan teachers and Melissa stomped, clapped and rubbed their way to an Oscar winning performance in an audience participation story. Virgil led the group through the story of Noah using a fill in the blank technique. CNN would have loved to produce Regina’s interview with an eyewitness (Martin) to the battle between David and Goliath in her interview story, which the teachers loved and learned how to create. Next, Phoebe and Jackie instructed the teachers on how to tell a basket story which included a teammates’ pair of smelly socks and almost drowned a Kenyan
teacher. She survived and the group loved the techniques that Phoebe and Jackie taught them. Last but not least, Jeff showed off his best teaching style (according to his teammates) – being silent! He showed signs to tell the story of David and Goliath. At the end, he got a rousing round of applause but he was not sure if it was for his story or his silence!
After lunch, the team and Kenyan teachers got our hands dirty making puppets. What a great success! For two hours, we cut, sewed, folded and colored puppets. Each teacher got to make one felt puppet and as many paper puppets as they could make. Carolyn showed off her Freudian side by teaching the class how to talk to a puppet and use it to teach the Bible. We had a wonderful day!
Interesting, one scripture out of four (days) also was David and Goliath.
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