PUPPETS AND LIBRARY WEEK

      Library Week had a strong puppet flavour at the Grenfell Library this year.

      The first event was the traditional Summer Reading Club Awards Afternoon Tea on Monday, 22nd May. Guest entertainers were the Sydney Puppet Theatre with Sue and Steve presenting the play "Things With Wings"  about Stumpy the caterpillar who dreams of flying and after many adventures including dodging hungry birds and involvement with a garden gnome achieves his ambition when he turns into a butterfly.
      This was followed by the presentation of certificates to members of the 2016/7 Summer Reading Club and then afternoon tea courtesy of those consummate caterers, the Friends of Grenfell Library.



      The following morning Sue and Steve performed "O Rats!" for children from St Josephs School and the Infants department of Grenfell Public School. This show had the children (and the teachers who came with them!!) in gales of laughter with such highlights as dancing sausages and a dismembered duck (think of the parrot in the Monty Python sketch). After the show Sue and Steven invited questions from the children and were very impressed with the quality of the questions asked.




Totally enthralled .....

 

      Then after school nineteen children made their very own rod puppet under Sue and Steve's tutelage. There was much excitement as the puppets developed and I am sure that they will be treasured possessions for quite some time. One child returned for her third puppet-making workshop and still has the two she made previously.

      Sue and Steve are very skilled at their craft - they do perform internationally - and also very good at helping children create and use their own puppets. This was their third visit to Grenfell and they say that they enjoy coming to the town as much as we enjoy having them.