Fuxing Elementary School in New Taipei City – Empty City Plan: Talking from the Point of View

Empty City Strategy – Taiwan’s cultural power that talks about “the more local it is, the more international it is”
Puppetry is a childhood memory that accompanies teachers when they grow up, but it is a traditional performing art that is rarely exposed to today's children. It can occasionally be seen at temple fairs in urban areas, but few people stop to watch it. In order to make puppetry, a traditional performing art that is easier to get started, regain people's attention, inherit, experience and appreciate it, and promote this local traditional art to the world, we hope to implement the culturally rooted tradition at the primary school level. Popularized teaching of puppetry.
This lesson plan will use the course to allow children to read stories from text, adapt scripts and combine them with the field of Mandarin, understand the classification of puppet theater characters, experience the beauty of traditional puppet theater, personally design character creations, and make their own puppets to develop a sense of identity and understand the stage. The scenery is accompanied by music and lighting, and you can join the rehearsal at the right time. You can practice puppeteering to experience the beauty of the body and gain the joy of puppeteering. You can work as a team to rehearse and perform a complete puppet show from scratch, and introduce puppetry to lower grade students. , through the big hand holding small hand activity, we can experience the beauty of the traditional performing art of puppetry, and let the traditional and beautiful art of puppetry take root in the cultural heritage.