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  • Puppet of Harriet Tubman sitting on a galloping hors

    Black history

    Riding a galloping horse

    May 8, 2021May 16, 2021

    Shadow puppetry offers opportunities to act out stories from the Underground Railroad, the network of free Blacks, Quakers, and abolitionists who helped men, women, and children escape slavery in the decades prior to the Civil

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  • Children seen on the back acting out a shadow puppetry scene with transparent scrolling background

    How to

    Adding a scrolling background to a shadow puppetry screen

    June 3, 2019February 5, 2020

    In the days when I worked with an overhead projector for shadow puppetry, I used transparent film on a rolling rack to have a moving background for travel. I truly missed this possibility when I starting to

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  • Shadow puppet of Harriet Tubman knocks the door of a safe house

    Black history

    Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad with shadow puppets

    May 31, 2019February 9, 2022

    Shadow puppetry is a great tool to engage children with stories from the Underground Railroad–the network of free Blacks, Quakers, and abolitionists who helped people enslaved in the South escape to the North in the

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