Shadows

Themes

What are shadows?

Wake in a dark room

How can we make shadows?

Children make their own shadows

• Torches
  • Working in pairs, one makes a shadow and the other travels around trying to keep out of the shadow, or jumps on it. They make similar shapes but bigger or smaller using gestures and whole body actions
  • Develop to moving in and out of lots of shadows. A’s make shadows whilst B’s move around then swap over
  • A moves around the space whilst B copies as if the shadow
• Candles

Things that make interesting shadows

Hand puppets/ hand silhouettes

Walls

• Bend and twist as shadows move along the join between the floor and wall

Buildings

Go to sleep in a dark room

Time of day

• Telling the time
• Points on a compass

Spooky shadows

Shapes and sizes of shadows

Where do we see shadows?

Candlelight

• Flickering shadows
• Divali

Dark and light

Media