Yaakov And Eisav Puppets

Jacob and Esau: Finger Puppets based on the Bible story

With these finger puppets, your students can act out the biblical story as well as act it out.
You get the template once in black and white and once in colour.
For example, the students can design the black and white templates themselves.
With the coloured templates, you can quickly create a set of finger puppets that you can give to students to play with.

Production:

Variant 1: Finger puppet set for all students
A second option is to create the finger puppets yourself and make them available for students to play with. If you want to make long-lasting finger puppets from the coloured templates, I recommend laminating them. To do this, after laminating, cut away the adhesive surfaces, fold the finger puppets and glue them together on the sides with clear tape.

Variant 2: Each student makes their own finger puppet to play with.
I always cut up the templates and have each student make a finger puppet to play with afterwards.
The students colour in the black and white templates and glue them together to form finger puppets according to the instructions.

Uses:

1) Playing along with the story
You introduce the protagonists of the story.
Your students choose the person they want to play with during the narration (or they have already created their own puppet).

-To slip into the role, each student says what role he or she plays. E.g. "I am...."
You define certain locations of the action where the action is played, or where certain people are (e.g., stable, field, castle). You can also visualize this, for example, through cloths or houses/game objects.

Here's how your narrative could begin:
"I'll tell you a story. You play along with your finger puppets. Listen carefully and do or say what I tell you about your people. Before we begin, I want each of you to say once again who you're going to play. Now we're going to decide where we'll play. Here lives ..., There is ... Now our story begins."

During the narration, the students act out the story with their finger puppets according to your stage directions. Pay attention to precise stage directions (where the character is going, who is he talking to, what is he saying). e.g. "Jacob tells Esau to sell him his birthright for the lentil soup."

The student with the Jacob finger puppet says to the Esau finger puppet, "Sell me your birthright for this lentil soup."

Please note that you will need about twice as much time as usual, as the students have yet to implement everything.

2) Re-enactment of the biblical narrative
After you tell the story, the students act out the story with their puppets.

Stage your own biblical story
The students work through the Bible story in small groups. The size of the group depends on the characters in the story.
The students read the story in the group and assign the roles. A student takes over the narrator.

Each student explains which character he or she wants to use with his or her finger puppet to slip into his role.
E.g. "I am Jacob..." Students determine the locations of the action where they play or stay (e.g., stable, field, on the road). A student begins with the narration/ Reading the story. The other students play the story with their finger puppets.

Reflection of finger puppetry

After the story, the students tell the story from the perspective of the biblical character they are playing.

I'm Esau.

I have experienced...
I think...
I feel...
I hope...
I pray to God...
I thank you God...

Best Regards,

Doreen Blumhagen - Die Relitante