Activity
Create Your Own Kimono Doll Finger Puppet
Create your own kimono doll finger puppet using this template.
Activity
Create your own kimono doll finger puppet using this template.
Activity
Create your own brush-painted masterpiece.
Video
Leta Bushyhead, Asian Art Museum Storyteller, tells a Chinese folktale inspired by objects in the museum’s collection.
Background Information
Rituals and traditions of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Activity
Students will create their own books and stamps, and can inscribe poetry or good wishes on each others books. They will then take their books with them on a pilgrimage to the Asian Art Museum, the Japanese tea garden, or the beach, and record their impressions.
Background Information
Lesson
Students will: 1.) analyze the role of the puppet master (dalang) in Indonesian rod puppet theater (wayang golek). 2.) Read a summary of the Ramayana or a scene from this Hindu epic. 3.) Identify the different puppet character types. 4.) construct a rod puppet of a character from the Ramayana or the Mahabharata.
Video
Asian Art Museum Storyteller Miriam Mills tells a story about a gecko from Bali.
Activity
Students express the Balinese concept of working together to create a community by applying the kecak musical pattern of interlocking parts to “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” and design their own chant using words or sounds to represent their characters.
Activity
Create a helmet out of folded paper, called origami. Decorate it with added embellishments and markings to simulate the patterns of lacing and other details.