National Museum of Scotland Christmas Activity

A relatively simple but very appealing Christmas decoration make and take activity, preferably utilising Christmas baubles. NMS will supply clear plastic baubles which measure 10cm in diameter and come in two halves allowing for the inside to be decorated or house an insert.  If not using the clear bauble, something of a similar size and nature would be appreciated. The decoration or insert should be inspired by an object, gallery or theme in the National Museum of Scotland so a pre-design site visit is a must.

My response: The activity is making finger puppets that you would then photograph in front of a christmas-y backdrop of the museum. This gives the ability to promote NMS, the animals relate to what they've got to offer in the museum. Materials needed: split pins, scissors, and cellotape. Also ribbon and colour pencils. THE actual puppet body would work best die cut as the finger holes and tag at the top would be challenging to cut with scissors. The puppets have a bit on the top where ribbon can be put through to make them into baubles HOWEVER they do fit into the baubles given to us if you were to keep that idea.

 

 

OUTTAKES 

Before getting to this conclusion, I had an absolute nightmare trying to create the most simple of string puppets. My first idea was to create a pull-string puppet, however after a lot of frustration, I admitted defeat and looked for an alternative. 

The idea:

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The Reality: