Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/event-based-play/5014450/
Two three-year-old boys, in the Making Area, create some faces from cardboard which they call Big Bird. These faces become the pivot for the development of a puppet show. The boys use some outdoor blocks to divide the space so that they can stand behind a barrier with their puppets and then they get some chairs for the audience to sit on. Other children who have been 'in the snowfields' and 'driving taxis' arrive for the 'theatre/show'.All the while the staff help the children organize their thinking and recall their prior knowledge of the world, by asking questions such as "Do you have enough seats for everyone?"; "Do you think this show is for free or should we buy tickets?" (the children discuss this and decide the show is free!); "What time should it start?" When the puppet show does start and the puppeteers cannot be heard by the audience, the teacher asks, "I wonder if the microphones are on?" which of course indicates to the puppeteers that they aren't being heard. This they resolve by raising their voices!
At the end of the show, the question, "How are we going to get home?" results in the children who had been ...