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Thanks! shelleyfletcherking@gmail.com 705-957-9030 Peterborough, Ontario https://shelleyking.ca/puppetworkshops daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Puppet Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Puppet Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Puppet Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1618862230878-O5VULRAPA6YLW1JUIK8W/Copy+of+Untitled+%2830%29.png Puppet Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/aff84466-4769-4ad8-99b7-b5e1c7b91699/IMG_3979.JPG Puppet Workshops - Unleashing Imagination: Puppets in the Classroom Making and using "Puppets in the Classroom" is an ideal way to engage students through creativity while satisfying several parts of the school curriculum. Start with a 90 minute foundational workshop that includes a performance, puppet making and puppetry skills. To go deeper, schedule additional 90 minute workshops for students to work in small groups to create, enhance and perform their own story for their fellow students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1621268174126-3LO80C7I82YA2ADG0SYC/Untitled+design+-+2021-05-17T121602.038.jpg Puppet Workshops - Puppets Are An Amazing Tool for Caregivers There are so many valuable ways to use puppets as a tool when caregiving. Taking the time to make a puppet with the person in your care is a great way to build a stronger connection and learn more about each other. Puppets are a great tool for people at any age and stage of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/9a83c331-7e1c-414a-aca8-7eafa07397c7/IMG_1479+%282%29.jpg Puppet Workshops - Puppet Fun With Friends https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/d87bfa8e-5d1b-425e-ad86-a6961735af60/Copy+of+Assorted+Art+Modalities+%281000+x+1600+px%29.jpg Puppet Workshops - Let Imagination & Creativity Replace Lost Memories Caring for a person with dementia is tough. When a person you care for loses their memories; family, friends and caregivers feel guilty, confused and frustrated because they don’t know how to navigate changes in personality and behaviours that result from memory loss and other changes in the brain. When memories you used to share are no longer accessible to your person with dementia, it's time to shift the focus to IMAGINATION & CREATIVITY. A "Creative Care" approach to caregiving allows you to shape "life with dementia" together, in a way that is engaging, joyful and meaningful. Shelley offers creative & engaging workshops for people with dementia, that spark imagination and take the pressure off of remembering. She also facilitates workshops & designs resources for caregivers, to teach creative strategies & activities that build meaningful connection and many moments of shared joy with the person or people you care for. Our workshop offerings for Long Care and Retirement Homes, not only spark imagination and creativity for the people who live there, but also provide invaluable coaching and training for Activity Staff so they can keep the joy and connection growing for even more residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/a8286f96-7149-479a-ae37-12a4092bcb5f/IMG_1694+%288%29.JPG Puppet Workshops - Have an “All in the Family” Workshop Bringing family members together to honour and engage with your person with dementia is a wonderful way to create “new” family memories. We are happy to accommodate your ideas and creative goals for a family project. A process that works really well, is to work together within your family unit to create a puppet to represent each person in the family. When the puppets are made, the stories can be told. Using story prompts, the group can engage in some playful puppet improv that is designed to get the stories flowing. It’s also an ideal way to share with your loved one, the qualities you most love about them. The workshop and storytelling can be filmed so you have a keepsake of this special time shared with one another. Many families like to use the film and/or puppets at the “Celebration of Life” when that time comes. Artful Connections brings all the puppet making materials and facilitates the process of creating puppets, teaching simple puppeteering techniques, and guiding you through the process of puppet improv. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/4b67cc95-0c6b-42d2-a831-152f04c64e37/IMG_1667+%2810%29.JPG Puppet Workshops - Professional Development & Staff Retreats with Puppets Making and using puppets together is a fun and creative way to build staff moral, enhance communication skills, expand creativity and problem-solving skills and have fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/ba1a0e94-970f-4748-8098-407fbe539d52/IMG_2662.jpg Puppet Workshops - Puppetry for Libraries, Camps & Professional Development Days https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1609367503872-AI1A2FDJNRW9FFMVHDM7/Intergenerational+Photo+%281%29.jpg Puppet Workshops - Intergenerational Projects with Community Partners There is so much magic that happens when young people and elderly people have the opportunity to learn together, create together, and play together. It is the very definition of connection & joy! Every Intergenerational project is unique due to the collaborations between the group of elders, the age of the ‘younger generation’, participating artists, and other community partners. Shelley uses her skills as a community arts coordinator and artist/puppeteer to bring collaborators together and coordinate the process of making intergenerational magic. https://shelleyking.ca/workshops-for-elders-ltc daily 0.75 2023-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1620578529478-XZ74ZHLRV0BVG53ED6SU/Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Workshops+for+Elders+Living+in+LTC.jpg Workshops for Elders Living in Retirement or Long Term Care Homes - Puppet Making https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1620578728493-MY2PS6ZL834WKAO6OZPQ/Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Workshops+for+Elders+Living+in+LTC+%281%29.jpg Workshops for Elders Living in Retirement or Long Term Care Homes - ‘Paint Party!’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1619194260080-1YDGB8E4OUN3HQ3P068M/Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Workshops+for+Elders+Living+in+LTC+%281%29.jpg Workshops for Elders Living in Retirement or Long Term Care Homes - The Creation Station https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1619194769041-0E4LQXJZP09I48Q5Q64J/Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Workshops+for+Elders+Living+in+LTC+%282%29.jpg Workshops for Elders Living in Retirement or Long Term Care Homes - Hands-On Staff Training https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1609776695904-TK2W6ZYS0ZMWVFEJ3N9R/Copy+of+Workshops+for+Elders+Living+in+LTC+%283%29.jpg Workshops for Elders Living in Retirement or Long Term Care Homes - Laughter Yoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1609775158357-ZN4Z5Y2C8442NVCARFSW/Copy+of+Workshops+for+Elders+Living+in+LTC.jpg Workshops for Elders Living in Retirement or Long Term Care Homes - Creative Storytelling https://shelleyking.ca/intergenerational-creativity daily 0.75 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/ab903a49-72c4-40ca-897e-db21644cdf4a/Phase+1+It+all+begins+with+a+STORY%21+%2811+%C3%97+8.5+in%29.jpg Intergenerational Creativity - In October and November 2021, I facilitated a “creative storytelling” process developed by TimeSlips, to support 50 residents at Fairhaven Long Term Care in Peterborough to write 35 original stories. A photo was used as the initial prompt in order to kick-start the storytelling process. As participants shared their ideas to advance the story, I wrote everything down on a flip chart in exactly the way they said it. Everyone’s ideas came together to co-create an original story. The process was fun, inclusive, and stress-free. Imaginations were sparked, there was much fun and laughter and all voices were heard and honoured. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/f15077b2-0ed8-4b8b-98d6-debc5b3184e7/Copy+of+Phase+1+It+all+begins+with+a+STORY%21+%2811+%C3%97+8.5+in%29.jpg Intergenerational Creativity - In January and February 2022, those stories were shared with 50 grade 3 and 4 students at Edmison Heights Public School for Phase 2 of the project. Students read the stories from Phase 1 and collaged scenes of the background for the stories. The collaged boards were 18 inches long by 12” high and were designed to fit into the boxes that would eventually become a puppet stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/e4c2484e-80c2-420b-90e6-1cf513f53b5c/Phase+3+Staging%2C+Props%2C+Puppets+%26+Performing+%287%29.jpg Intergenerational Creativity - From March to the end of June 2022, 50 grade 5 & 6 students worked together in 18 groups to build table top puppet stages from small moving boxes with the same dimensions (18” by 12”) as the collaged backdrops created in Phase 2. The grade 5 & 6 students then made the characters for whichever story they were working on. All 50 students made a different character from one of the 18 stories chosen to become a puppet show. The puppets were jointed with a rod connected to the top of the puppets’ heads. This allowed the student (as the puppeteer for their puppet) to manipulate the puppet’s actions from behind the stage. Everyone learned about puppetry techniques and began the process of rehearsing and performing the stories. I carefully edited the stories to become scripts, while protecting the integrity of the original story and honouring the voices of the story creators. The puppet shows were filmed so they could be shared with the residents at Fairhaven, family members, friends, the larger community of Peterborough and with YOU! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1f5da5f7-5c4a-401f-8c7c-77b7630bffbd/Copy+of+Project+Poster+%2811+%C3%97+8.5+in%29+%281%29.jpg Intergenerational Creativity - Phase 4 is all about sharing the project with others. This is being done through a public art exhibit at the Ludmila Art Gallery in Peterborough, Ontario. The exhibit runs from July 1st to July 24th 2022. The videos can be accessed below and will living on YouTube for everyone to enjoy for an indefinite period of time. It is our desire to inspire others to create similar arts-based intergenerational projects. It is a wonderful way to create connection and joy! 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She'd love to meet you in person! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1773808928283-P8BUMHLNUAV0CYXGSCG4/IMG_1893.jpg Gallery - The Connection Collection These lovely delicate bracelets have adjustable chains and a variety of chains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1773808632382-G0O9PALFHXUZVMMZF1NR/IMG_1904.jpg Gallery - The Connection Collection With barrettes like these, you'll never have a bad hair day again! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/91d7c8a4-b39a-48da-99a3-ee518916bbc9/IMG_1895.jpeg Gallery - The Connection Collection Remember when bobby pins were straight and plain? Not any more! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1773809270093-CV6AD5J14J349I70TE5L/IMG_1898.jpg Gallery - The Connection Collection As a person who loves purple, Shelley is doing her best to bring more purple earrings into the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/873bf376-2b4f-4497-94ac-8f2a586a70e7/IMG_1900.jpeg Gallery - The Connection Collection You can never have too many earrings! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/81081d26-dc1a-4128-bea8-ccb39167209f/IMG_1723.jpeg Gallery - The Connection Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/1773812111419-OVV3S304UXUW93QLUWKD/IMG_1932.jpg Gallery - The Connection Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/04bc242d-006f-4460-bb8a-d95e32952dc7/IMG_1794.jpeg Gallery - The Connection Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/f6f71f60-df31-49c3-8aa4-2ef7574ad132/IMG_1411.jpeg Gallery - The Connection Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/3c76bff5-6286-4ae9-acd5-c1c5f204b977/8%2522x8%2522+Time+Window+Collage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/d83e44cb-e046-4fbf-8617-aaf13b189d1b/4%2522x4%2522+Time+Windows+Collage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/158b5a60-8440-4562-bd4e-f6f8e99b152a/IMG_1953.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/e9b7c2a7-abfb-4694-82f8-aa935e333a20/IMG_1952.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/bbcd7a29-feed-4c45-8283-64bb91cd7106/IMG_1912.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/9dfa0e9a-bb21-4206-ae76-4b818fc1c56e/IMG_1912.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb6fa5bfbfa9c5c932cf2fc/d61cd127-b079-4244-81eb-1cf47ba3a484/IMG_1920.jpg