Apple Cake Tale
Castle Of Costa Mesa 2024 Summer Workshop.
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- Click here to view Castle of Costa past workshops, puppet shows and events
- Summer 2024 Workshop: Apple Cake Tale
- Summer 2024 Workshop: The Unforgettable Summer on the Island of the Gogottes
- Summer 2024 Workshop: Urashima Tarō in the Deep Sea Palace
- Shop Castle of Costa Mesa. Fairy Tale Dolls and Fiber Arts, Handmade with Love.
- Craft Group for Adults
- Click here if you want to see a photo gallery/blog of our Waldorf Craft Group.
- Interested in joining our adult Thursday mornings 8:45am – 12:30pm Craft Group starting again in 9/12/24?
- Text Jzin for details (949) 400-7082
- Tentative Craft Group 2024-2025 schedule linked here. I am still working on it.
- Follow us on Castle of Costa Mesa on Instagram here to view upcoming workshops or events.
- Useful Tools
- Questions? Contact Jzin (949) 400-7082
- Click here to view Castle of Costa past workshops, puppet shows and events
Workshop Information
INFORMATION
WEEK 1. APPLE CAKE TALE
6/24/24 – 6/28/24. FELTING, CRAFTING, PERFORMING PUPPET SHOW
WEEK 1 – WORKSHOP INFORMATION
- Instructors: Jzin Teng and Elena Roussanova of Castle of Costa Mesa
- Dates: Monday – Friday, June 24 – 28, 2024 (5 days)
- Time: 9am to 1pm
- Classroom: 7th Grade Classroom – with Air Condition and Piano
- Address: The Waldorf School of Orange County, 2350 Canyon Drive. Costa Mesa, CA 92627
- Ages: Rising 5 – 12 Graders. No experience necessary. Age 9+ students with steady and focused temperament, who are able to work safely with felting needles, can make special requests to instructor Jzin (949) 400-7082 to register for the class.
Interested? Text Instructor Jzin Teng (949) 400-7082
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WEEK 1 – WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Students will be creating characters and scenes for this sweet Table Top Puppet Show. You will design and needle-felt characters such as The Old Woman, the Goose Girl, The rich, handsome, yet sad young man, woodland creatures. You will build cottages, dollhouse furniture and more. Bring your creative brain, you will design, craft, act, sing, play musical instruments, and perform puppet show to entertain an audience on our open house on Friday June 30, 2024. Note: We will be using sharp, barbed needles for needle-felting and hot glue guns for set construction.
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RELATED LINKS
- The last two Felting Workshops:
- Fairy Tale Woodland Fairy Tale Puppet Show by Felting Workshop Students 6/30/23
- Mermaid Kingdom Fairy Tale Puppet Show by Felting Workshop students. 7/14/23
- Some Past Workshops and Puppet Shows
- Waldorf School of Orange County Craft Group
- Follow us on Instagram: www.Instagram.com/CastleofCostaMesa
Friday: Showtime!
We worked on this since Monday 6/24/24. Now it’s time to share our craft and love with all!
Friday, June 28, 2024. The Apple Cake Tale whole performance video taken by Lela Thorne. Thank you for the video!
Alex made the gothic-attired girl as the gardener picking dandelion roots in the garden,
The poor woman in front of her tumbledown house.
Our eurythmy teacher, Miss Silvia came to the puppet show and she said, “Oh! That puppy looks like my dog Bella!”
As the audience joined us in singing a happy song, the puppeteers showed the happy epilogues from the kind deeds of the Old Woman.
The goose girl and her husband enjoyed some homemade plum jelly made from plums from the Old Woman.
Hurray, The poor woman with the tumble down house is now transformed magically into a lady in a white dress. Alex made a new home for the family as well…
The Lonely Old Man was lonely no more with a yapping companion by his feet!
Video of Entire Puppet Show Performance
Friday, June 28, 2024. The Apple Cake Tale whole performance video taken by Lela Thorne. Thank you for the video!
Friday After The Show
June 28, 2024. The puppet show started at after 12:30pm and ended at 12:56pm.
What a wonderful performance! The audience came up to the stage to admire and ask questions about the dolls and scenes.
Friday: Preparing for Showtime
Friday, 6/28/24. How exciting! Today at 12:30pm we shall share all our work with the public!
In the nick of time! Mavry finished crafting the bride for The Rich, Handsome, Sad, Young man. YAY!
Alex finished up his last doll right before the puppet show – the freckled girl with hot pink and black hair.
The Script
Apple Cake Tale puppet show is based on Nieke von Hichtum’s “Apple Cake”. We removed the quarreling scene and added a scene with a gardener picking dandelion roots for tea instead.
You can view our version of the script here.
Thursday
Thursday, June 27, 2024.
Mavry hot glued gun some pine twigs and later, egg cartons to add textures to her wishing well.
7th Grade classroom. So much fervent creativity happened in here this week!
Alex enthusiastically made a new house for the poor mother and her children – after they received the generous gold chain from the Old Woman.
This house on Friday, after the puppet show.
Miss Elena setting up the stage for our puppet show tomorrow.
Miss Jzin needle-felted a host of dolls as examples for the class.
Miss Elena made an apple tree for the play while listening to the Kennedy, Trump and Biden 2024 Presidential debate.
Wednesday
June 26, 2024.
We ring a bell to celebrate when an artwork is completed: “Hear ye! Hear ye! A Goose Girl doll is born today! I am naming her Isabelle. May she bring joy to the children in our puppet show!” “Happy Birthday Isabelle the Goose Girl!”
Alex needle-felted the Lonely Old Man with his cane made from a twig.
Mavry’s Goose Girl around the farm animals are ready for the puppet show on Friday!
Alex is happy that the furniture and cottage paints are dry.
A closer-look inside The Lonely Old Man’s Cottage:
How lovely is the home that Alex designed, furnished and finished for the Lonely Old Man!
Tuesday
June 25, 2024.
I let the students pick the characters and scenes they like to work on. Mavry chose to needle-felt the Goose Girl who wanted plums to make plum jelly for her husband.
One may see boxes, we see exciting crafting materials!!
Alex is inspired and went to work on the cottage of The Lonely Old Man.
The Tumbledown Cottage of the Poor Woman is done, but the characters are still wandering in the ether.
Here’s the steed I made in preparation for teaching Miss Jenell’s 4th Grade Animal Block. The Rich, Handsome, Sad Young man will be riding it.
Monday
June 24, 2024. Thank you Miss Rebecca for letting us use your 7th Grade classroom.
Mavry started making the wishing well. She hot glued twigs from the park to the roof.
Mavry’s well on Friday, after the Puppet Show…She added some green batting as moss on the roof.
A big hurry to make The Rich, Handsome, Sad, Young man in time for the puppet show (Left). Right is the husband of the Goose Girl.
Some of The Preparations For This Workshop
We performed The Apple Cake by Niece van Hichtum several times when my children were little…
Emily’s dad won The Apple Cake puppet show from The Castle of Costa Mesa at the Waldorf School Gala fundraiser, so we performed this story at Emily’s 7th birthday party. Click here to view photos.
Just for fun, you can also view Miss Elena and her best friend Anicka performing “Snow White and Rose Red” to Miss Tiesha’s Aftercare group here.
Click on image below to see other Castle of Costa Mesa puppet shows and events in the past.
RELATED LINKS
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- Click here to view Castle of Costa past workshops, puppet shows and events
- Summer 2024 Workshop: Apple Cake Tale
- Summer 2024 Workshop: The Unforgettable Summer on the Island of the Gogottes
- Summer 2024 Workshop: Urashima Tarō in the Deep Sea Palace
- Shop Castle of Costa Mesa. Fairy Tale Dolls and Fiber Arts, Handmade with Love.
- Craft Group for Adults
- Click here if you want to see a photo gallery/blog of our Waldorf Craft Group.
- Interested in joining our adult Thursday mornings 8:45am – 12:30pm Craft Group starting again in 9/12/24?
- Text Jzin for details (949) 400-7082
- Tentative Craft Group 2024-2025 schedule linked here. I am still working on it.
- Follow us on Castle of Costa Mesa on Instagram here to view upcoming workshops or events.
- Useful Tools
- Questions? Contact Jzin (949) 400-7082
- Click here to view Castle of Costa past workshops, puppet shows and events
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