Educational Programmes for Schools

The workshop gives you a chance to make your own marionette and learn about the magic of theatre making
During an active guided tour introducing different types of puppets, the visitors have the opportunity to try out how to manipulate a table-top puppet, a rod puppet, a hand puppet, and a marionette.
Where inside us are feelings born? What could be the colours of joy? What does sadness look like? We will try to guess together, which emotions various puppets embody.
In this workshop, children learn to know several different types of puppets, after which they make theatrical stick puppets.
In the workshop, children learn about the principles of shadow theatre and make their own puppets
Students learn about the process of staging a play and the terminology used in theatre.
How does a literary text become a wordless visual production? Participants of the workshop will dramatize a literary text in the form of visual theatre – with no words, physically.
The aim of the museum lesson is to study the anatomy of puppets, examine the materials used to create them, and learn different puppet animation methods and movement possibilities.
What could be done for life to be like a fairy tale? By using the playing tools of the Puppet Theatre, it is possible to enter a mysterious fairy tale world where one can fly beyond seven lands and seas and meet characters from fairy tales.
Through versatile activities of this museum lesson, students get an overview of the profession of puppeteer and types of puppets, while learning to animate them both individually as well as in groups. Animating puppets enriches students’ movement-related vocabulary in Estonian.

2026 March