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# Day 82 · Make the puppet do something

**Tiny goal:** Find two ways your puppet can do its job.

Flexible suggested 25-minute start: split, shorten, extend or stop for this group. No measured lesson duration or child outcome is supplied.

## Welcome and set up · suggested 3 min

Return yesterday's child-owned puppet or offer a new plain shape. Set a small pretend destination using paper or existing furniture approved for use. Keep the operator's comfortable position and chosen communication available.

Say: “Find two ways your puppet can do its job. You can choose, ask for help or pass.”

## Model or preserve the fresh attempt · suggested 4 min

Use your own pancake courier. First it travels directly to a pretend customer. Next it waits, looks toward the counter through a turn of the paper, and arrives after a cue. “These are two ways to show the same job.” You need not move your own face, body or voice to a required pattern.

## Choose a way in · suggested 5 min

**1. Two entrances.** Play the same character entering directly and entering after a chosen cue. Pick which entrance fits your scene. No speed ranking or required distance; the dramatic difference is the chosen arrival.

**2. Still can act.** Keep the puppet in one place while choosing a line, sign, symbol change, turn or pause to show what it does. Try a second cue. A still position is compatible with drama; intent alone still needs an actual expressive contribution.

**3. Operator instructions.** Give a willing helper two distinct directions for the same character job. Observe their two actual attempts and keep, change or reject one. Your direction and their animation remain separately attributable.

## Make, try and respond · suggested 7 min

Try two versions of a character action: a changed path, position, entrance, pause, repeated action, words/signs or other chosen expressive cue. Let the child choose the change. Ask a willing watcher only what they actually noticed; accept “I did not notice” and do not tell the maker that an intended feeling was achieved.

**Ask:** “What could your puppet try? What changes if you try another way?”

**If the child needs a next move:** If a child repeats the model, offer a different destination or job and ask for a choice. Repetition can be rehearsal; it is not yet an independently invented alternative. If a helper animates, ask the child which version fits their idea and record whose movement it was.

## Notice what happened · suggested 4 min

“Which version would you keep? Why?” The child can point to a version, describe a useful change or keep both. Record an intended idea separately from a watcher's actual response.

## Keep and finish · suggested 2 min

Keep a quick two-version mark or exact note if the child wants it.

**Next teaching move:** Use the chosen action in a place with a situation. For a child still exploring one action, repeat a small attainable purpose rather than demand a second version.

**Teacher evidence note:** Record actual actor/action/support, the child's own idea, any source units encountered and any actual willing maker/audience. Label plan, helper action, source reasoning, rehearsal and unavailable evidence. A paper plan is not performed puppetry. Direction is a child contribution; name the actual operator separately. Do not infer emotion or understanding from gaze, pose, silence or an intended effect.

[Ordinary choices](../../source/PARTICIPATION-ROUTES.md) · [Optional home offer](../../source/FAMILY-OPTIONAL.md) · [Sources and item rights](../../source/SOURCE-AND-RIGHTS.md).

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