Kids claim puppet show world record
Kids claim puppet show world record
Children from Cockington Essential School have set a modern world record for the greatest beginner manikin show. They nearly multiplied the existing record by putting together a cast of more than 400 understudies and their manikins.
Hurican & the Feathered Snake is a puppet show like no other.
With a cast of 402 school children from Torquay it has smashed the world record for the biggest amateur puppet show ever.
The children from Cockington Primary School worked with Totnes based Far & Wide Puppets to dramatise an ancient Mayan myth.
It told the story from the first sound on earth to children playing for the first time on their glorious planet.
From 4-year-olds in reception to the 11-year-olds in year six, every child in the school made their own puppet.
Their creations ranged from the massive to minuscule: shoals of fish to gigantic Mayan gods and from flocks of flamingos to meetings of mud people
: "It was completely brilliant," said Lyn Hayward, a instructing partner at Cockington School. "We overseen to induce 402 puppeteers on arrange with a add up to of 463 puppets." "The co-ordination was very challenging, getting them all on and off stage. "But they did everything as they were assumed to and the children are exceptionally energized.
: Distant & Wide Manikins as of now held the world record for the greatest manikin appear. It was set in 2002 with a cast of 242 children in Dorset. But the Devon based puppeteers couldn't stand up to the challenge to go for an indeed greater record-breaking appear on their domestic patch. "We begun with nothing," said Tony Gee of Distant & Wide Puppets. "The execution was all the kids' work - so it was very a showy challenge," The world record endeavor at Torquay's Riviera Middle coincided with the school's craftsmanship week. As well as making the manikin appear, the children looked at distinctive viewpoints of Mexican culture counting show, cooking, form, and portray.
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