Week 10 - Talking Characters

This week we, quite literally, flipped last week's activity and turned the dancing character mechanism into into talking characters. We used the same mechanism described in Chuck Stoffle's excellent video and then flipped the orientation so the mouth of the animal moved up and down.

I pre-cut the cardboard and made a basic head template that could be adapted to a variety of characters.
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The thing I never have time to do is tie in our maker projects to classroom work, but I would love to to these as part of storytelling/writing unit. Someday...