Kamishibai Presentation

in Early in the fall, I read two books to the children which led to our Kamishibai theatre presentation.

The first book was What Does Peace Feel Like? in which all the senses are used to describe ways of finding peace through our 5 senses. I also read The Kamishibai Man, in which we learned about the lost tradition of kamishibai story-telling. Inspired by these two books, the class took on our own Kamishibai experience.

First, we brainstormed a list of things that inspire a sense of peace through our various senses and then the children used a graphic organizer to map out their favourite ideas. Some were very esoteric.

Next, each child keyboarded his or her own draft and printed it out.

Students created imagery to accompany their favourite ideas and then the text was laid over the picture. The image was then attached to the back of a large frame that acts as our Kamishibai card.