Nursery World - Enabling Environments: Puppets

A giant puppet show came to Liverpool for three days this summer.
The event inspired one nursery to explore the concept of size - by
getting the children to make their own figures.

Giant puppets returned to the streets of Liverpool this summer and some 1.5 million people came out to see them. For staff and children at local setting Cottage Day Nursery it was an event, and a learning opportunity, not to be missed.

The puppets captured the hearts and imaginations of the city's residents in 2012 with a "spectacular" to mark the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic. This time, they walked the streets to commemorate the outbreak of-World War I 100 years ago.

Both events were created by French street theatre company Royal de Luxe, under director Jean-Luc Courcoult, and featured a Little Girl Giant (5.5m) and her dog Xolo (3m). Accompanying them in 2012's Sea Odyssey was Uncle Giant, while in this year's Memories of August 1914 they were joined by Grandmother (7.5m), the latest addition to the Royal de Luxe family of giants and the first to be able to speak.

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