DLTK's Educational Activities for Kids
A Mid Summer Night's Dream - Mechanicals Story: Printable Felt Board Images
Contributed by Leanne Guenther, characters illustrated by Anna Ha
The "mechanicals" are a group of amateur actors in Shakespeare's story, A Mid Summer Night's Dream. They're quite funny characters in the play! My favourite is Bottom.
Below are some neat ideas for using the characters and objects from the mechanicals story of Shakespeare's A Mid Summer Night's Dream to create feltboard images to play with.
Here are some ideas for using basic felt board
characters:
Use the sheets as... PUPPETS
Either print the black and white sheet to color
OR
print the color page
Cut out each image and tape it to a popsicle stick or an unsharpened pencil.
Use the sheets as... FELT BOARD CHARACTERS
Either print the black and white sheet to color
OR
print the color page
You can cover with clear contact paper or laminate if you want them to last longer.
Cut out each character.
Cut out a small piece of coarse sandpaper and tape or glue it on the back of each character (if you laminated, it will need to
be a larger piece of sandpaper). The sandpaper will allow the characters to stick on your felt board.
Templates:
Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).
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