Roll Up Roll Up to the Cardboard Puppet Circus

Only two weeks into the new College year and Strode's Art and Design students have already created some imaginative and skillful work by designing and making a cardboard puppet circus. The meter high puppets, which were made with recycled cardboard and brown tape, starred in a special performance for other students last week.


The show, which was conducted by a cardboard ring master, featured a nervous human canon ball, a dancing clown and a juggler, a unicyclist doing balancing tricks and some performing animals including a lion, an elephant, a monkey and a horse.

Duncan Cameron, Sculpture Lecturer said: "The project was designed to warm up the students' creativity and get them working together. We have used cardboard as our medium before but this is the first year where students were asked to direct the project and face the additional challenge of including musical content and narration. It is remarkable how effective the designs and constructions were when starting from such humble materials".