- ♪ Good morning to a brand new day.

♪ Time to learn and games to play.

Learning things is so much fun.

Learning is good for everyone.

♪ (gentle music) - Hello, early learners.

Welcome back to the art room where we're doing the ABCs of art.

And we did A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O and today we're starting with the letter P. But I'm bringing back our old hello song about when animals get up in the morning.

So today I'm singing about this cow.

And we're only going to sing one verse.

So sing along with me, if you remember it.

And it goes: ♪ When cows get up in the morning, ♪ they always say good day.

When cows get up in the morning, they always say good day.

Moo Moo Moo, this is what they say.

Moo Moo Moo, this is what they say.

♪ Thank you for singing along.

And today is usually mystery Monday but since we know that all 26 days in a row for the 26 letters in the alphabet we're using the same thing.

We're using alphabet and I got out some letters that stuck to a pan.

So today we're going to talk about the letter P. Let's sing our alphabet song so that we can catch up and meet our artist.

And here's how it goes.

Now, you'll know what we're going to be talking about all week long.

♪ A B C D E of art.

♪ That's the way that we will start.

P is for puppet, Q is for queen.

R is for roses that we have seen.

S is for sunflower, trees start with T. Art and the alphabet, A B C. ♪ So I told you letter P, is what we're starting with today.

And it is about Paul Clay.

Now remember, Paul Clay's name was spelled K L E E, but we say it Clay.

And here he is sitting in the light of a window.

And Paul Clay was a dad.

He was a father, and he had a boy named Felix.

And for Felix's ninth birthday, he made eight puppets for his boy to open.

And then one more he made.

And then he started to make more and more since his son loved them so much.

As the years went on he made more and more and more puppets.

And he made somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 hand puppets.

Some out of wood, some were out of recycled materials, some put on his hands, some were on sticks, some went on his finger.

And here is a collection of a few of them.

Now, to me, a lot of the faces looked a little scary.

Whenever I see the teeth in a row, kind of like that it always makes me think it's a skeleton.

And there's a guy back here with great big ears that look like roads.

And he's got a nice nose with two rosy cheeks.

This one has like a blockhead with gigantic eyes.

This one looks like he crawled out of the mud.

This one looks like a clown that maybe had an old mask on his face.

So this is a rhyme for P, listen.

P is for puppets.

P is for puppets made by Paul Clay.

created for his son, Felix, for his puppet play.

So we're going to make a puppet today.

And once I show you this one kind you might make a whole bunch of them.

And if you would work on them and have someone take a picture of you working on your puppets or have a picture of you holding one of your puppets would you send a picture to me here at the studio?

Because we have all these great activity books that they're just waiting to mail to you.

And we'll put one of these in the mail if you send your home address along with a picture of your artwork.

Let me scoot these down here so I remember to tell you each day, this week.

Now we know that Paul Clay was making all kinds of puppets but he also had that big man with the round head, Senecio that we all made, the picture of that he later said really was a picture of him.

But he set Felix up at a flea market because he wanted to make a puppet theater.

And what he did was made a frame around like this with little curtains so that Felix could show his puppets.

I want to show you what I did with a piece of cardboard.

I fold it in half and then I just wrapped some of my duct tape around it so I'd be ready to show you.

I can use either side 'cause one piece wasn't really strong enough.

And I thought this would make it good for my hand to hold it.

So let me set all of this aside and get my materials and my little table.

I have some construction paper.

I have some old cardboard.

I have cardboard that I used from one of the pieces of my box of food that I emptied.

I don't want you to see.

I think I covered up the label.

No I didn't, but this used to be a box that held crackers.

And I opened it up and now I have a good piece of cardboard for one of my puppets.

So let me move this up here.

I still have to lean over to get things.

Maybe I'll move the suitcase a little closer.

I have cardboard in here.

I brought this kind of tissue paper.

Maybe I'll put it around the handle of my puppet to make some clothes for it later.

But first I want to decide what kind of face I will make.

So I'm getting out some of my cardboard.

Here's part of a box.

I think that would be pretty good.

I saw a piece of cardboard in here that looked like I could put some big, long ears like that one puppet that Clay made.

And it seemed like he had, it was like or road on his.

I thought, wouldn't that be fun to do something kind of like Paul Clay's?

So I'm going to cut out a head shape.

Now, none of these heads that Paul Clay did are even like each other.

So it can be an oval.

It could be a square, it could be a rectangle.

It could be whatever you decide.

I'm going to make mine kind of an oval but a flatter one.

So I'm using my scissors.

Now, you know, this kind of cardboard is kind of hard to cut.

And if you don't want to be the one that uses the scissors and the cardboard, then ask your grown-up if they would cut it for you.

You could always trace a line around it and say, oh I want my head to look like this but I tried using the scissors and it hurt my hands too much.

And if that happens your grown-up probably would love to help you.

Oh, here's another piece like that roadmap, it was part of this box.

Well, I might use it for the other side.

I also brought some masking tape 'cause some things are better stuck together using - Oh I thought about bringing my glue gun, but every time I think about something that you probably couldn't use, you'll say, well, that's why hers stuck because she has a hot glue gun.

And I wouldn't let my child use a hot glue gun by themselves.

Oh, these ears might be good.

Let me get my glue.

Come on over here, glue.

And I'll get my glue stick too.

Well, I think I'll make some long ears.

Would it fit like this be enough?

I think so.

Now I hope that you're cutting up some cardboard and deciding how you want it.

I think the glue will hold it pretty well.

I'm going to put glue, it takes a long time for my glue because it's so cold to come down to the hole, but here it comes.

And I know that you're being careful near your furniture.

I brought some newspaper to work on but I'm being especially careful not to.

I'm going to lean it on here so that if it drips it, won't get on my little table.

It'll just get there.

I'm going to put this on here.

Now, how can you make it be decorated in a really nice way?

You might paint it.

You could make it, oh, with bottle caps.

I did bring some bottle caps thinking, what could I use for eyes that would look good?

So, I have two from water bottles.

And I'm going to put those two eyes on here so that they're big and show up well.

I'm using a lot of glue.

You know how your teacher always tells you just a dot, that's enough.

Some things take more than a dot.

Oh, I do like how that looks, uh huh.

Okay, that's off to a good start.

Now, I think I'm going to make a kind of nose.

But maybe I'll use a yellow piece and make it stand up.

Or maybe an old piece of floppity cardboard.

And then I can get, oh, this was from my new bike basket that I had delivered to my house.

Oh, I want his nose to stand up.

Remember how I taught you, if you fold a little piece like this then it can stand up better?

So I'll just put my glue on there.

And the part that ran out of the bottle and landed on this cardboard nicely, I'll put that on there.

I'll hold it.

Maybe I'll count to 10 to make it stay here.

And the mouth is going to have to go way on either side of his big nose.

That's good.

All right, I have some paint here.

I'm going to dip into the red paint and I'm just going to put some good red smile.

Maybe he'll be a half smile guy.

I do worry about using paint when I'm not finished yet because I will drag my arm through it.

Yep, I like it with a side grin.

I'll put this over here and lean it in this basket.

I brought some yarn, cause I thought, wouldn't yarn be funny for a hair on him?

So I'm keep my balls nicely rolled up so that it doesn't make a big mess.

I'm going to put some glue just at the top of his head because I want his hair to stand up on end 'cause I think that's funnier.

And he kind of really looks like a funny kind of mask.

So I'm going three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

I said mask, but really I meant puppet boys and girls.

He's going to be a puppet.

'cause puppet starts with P. I can put that whole string of gray hair on here and trim it later if I want.

Trim it, trim it.

I'll trim this one first 'cause I see it's trying to make the string come off.

And you know, I don't ever get a chance to finish all my art 'cause we just get started and you know how just like at school you go away and you come back and you bring your art back and show your teacher.

'Cause behind me, when we go back to I'm seeing behind me you can look at all the art we did last week and I did all the things and put them and finished them and I wanted to show you those.

So here my hair is sticking on.

Still getting a good start on him.

I might have to trim some of these that go too long.

Still getting more hair.

What else do I want?

I do like when he has kind of a rosy cheek so maybe I'll put some pink.

I'll add some red to the white paint and get some pink.

And later this week we're going to be doing some roses and I'm going to make the roses pink and have it be a really fancy, fancy rose color.

Now I wanted to show you how I would put my handle on.

I would put it in the back and I could put my puppet like this.

Now let me show you about some clothes how I would start it, but don't worry 'cause you know that we're not going to finish.

I'm going to put my clothes on here so that it hides my hand when I show the puppet like this.

Oh I really like the beginnings of him.

I have a lot more work to do on him, boys and girls.

You know, I think if you make a set of puppets and you can put on a show between two characters that's the way that it's going to be kind of nice.

I brought back our old goodbye song and it sings: ♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends.

♪ So let me set my board down so I can do my horse clipity clap.

♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends.

♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends.

Oh, it's time to say goodbye.

Give a smile and wink your eye.

Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends.

♪ Now let's see P Q. Q, we're going to make a queen.

So bring some white paper, coloring tools, gold paper if you have it, glue and scissors and I will see you tomorrow, boys and girls.

Thanks for joining me.

Bye, bye.

- ♪ Good morning to a brand new day.

♪ Time to learn and games to play.

Learning things is so much fun.

Learning is good for everyone.

♪