Ideas for Creating Puppet Plays

• Creating a puppet play could be an interesting and fun intergenerational project. You could base your puppet play on a local legend or true-life story. Parents and older children could write the script outline and scenes together. Younger children and parents could create the puppets together.
• You could use the ideas in the Skits and Plays section as a guideline for creating script outlines and writing scenes for your puppet play.

Making Puppets

There are many different kinds of puppets you could make:

• Marionettes – puppets with strings to make them move.
• Hand puppets – made from fabric or skins.
• You could model the heads from paper-mache or clay.
• Finger puppets.
• Puppets mounted on a stick.
• Rod puppets – rods are attached to the puppets’ hands and used to create hand movements.

Northern Films

• Artcirq, 2001, Canada, Igloolik Isuma Productions
• Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner, 2001, Canada, Igloolik Isuma Productions
• Chinook Winds: Light and Shadow, 1997, Canada, Aboriginal Arts Program – Banff Centre for the Arts
• The Drum Dancer, 2001, Canada, Kitikmeot Heritage Society
• In Iirgu’s Time, 1988, USA, Sara Elder and Leonard Kamerling, distributed by Documentary Educational Resources (USA)
• The Journey of the Stone, 2001, Canada, Kitikmeot Heritage Society
• Journey to Nunavut, 1999, Canada, Martin Kreelak, NFB, IBC
• Kikkik, 2000, Canada, Words and Pictures Video
• Nanook Taxi, 1977, Canada, Tulugak Production Company
• Nirniura, 2000, Canada, Arnait Ikajurtigiit Collective, Iglooklik
• Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beasts, 2001, Canada, John Houston, Triad Film Productions
• Qaggiq, 1989, Canada, Igloolik Isuma Productions
• Songs in Stone: An Arctic Journey Home, 1999, Canada, John Houston, Triad Film Productions
• Unikausiq, 1996, Canada, Arnait Ikajurtigiit Collective, Iglooklik
• Uvajuq – The Origin of Death, 2001, Canada, Kitikmeot Heritage Society
• The White Dawn, 1974, USA, Paramount Pictures