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Teaching artist Cecilia Cackley shows how to create a tiny, magical world in the style of teatro lambe-lambe puppetry using small objects found in the home.

Vocabulary You Will Learn:

• Teatro lambe-lambe—A kind of puppetry from Latin America. Teatro lambe-lambe uses very small puppets to perform a short show inside of a box or other container—for just one person at a time.

Materials You Will Need:

• Any objects you would like to include in your puppets’ world, such as small toys, pieces of cardboard, or cloth
• A box
• Scissors or a knife to cut a hole in your box 

How to Create Your Own Magical World in the Style of Teatro Lambe-Lambe 

1. Start by selecting a small object from your materials—one that fits in the palm of your hand. Place this object on the surface you will be working on.
2. Next, you’re going to build a world around your object. Use the other supplies you’ve gathered, such as small boxes, jars, cloth, cardboard, and small toys, to build the magical world around your object. Use your imagination and have fun! 
3. Now you’re going to find a cardboard tube to look at your world through, so you can see how it would look through a peephole. If you don’t have a cardboard tube, you can make your hand into a circle and look at your world through the circle.

4. If you’d like to keep going, you can move your world, or part of your world, into a cardboard box with a peephole cut into the side.
5. Ask your family or friends to be your audience, and let them see your tiny, magical world you’ve created through the peephole!

In this video, Cecilia teaches us to create a tiny, magical world in the style of teatro lambe-lambe using small objects found around our homes. If you want to go even further, think about these questions: 

• What kind of story do you want to tell using the magical world you’ve created? Who are the characters in the story? Do you want to create these characters yourself, or do you have small toys that can represent them?
• How will you make your characters move? Cecelia showed us that her characters had small sticks attached to their limbs that she used to bring them to life. You can try that method or come up with a different way to make them move! 
• Cecilia shows us one of her lambe-lambe boxes that is inspired by a picture book about the real-life artist Frida Kahlo. Are there any story books, or real-life stories, that you can use as inspiration for your lambe-lambe box? 
• Do you notice anything different about your world when you view it through the peephole versus openly on the surface? Does it draw your eye to more minute details? Does viewing your world through the peephole inspire you to make any adjustments or changes to it?

Accessibility

Don’t forget that you can turn on “Closed Captioning” to view the YouTube video with English captions.

More about the Teaching Artist

Cecilia Cackley (she/her) is a puppeteer and teaching artist based in Washington, D.C. She teaches different styles of puppetry to students of all ages, including shadow puppetry, object puppetry, and teatro lambe-lambe. Find more of her work at .

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