Samet SALİH-Zehra Kitapçıoğlu Kindergarden

Özlem ÇUKURLU AYDIN-Giresun Science and Art Center

Cansu POLAT-Şehit Cüneyt Sertel Kindergarden

Hasan Hüseyin ÖZKAN-Varto Kindergarden

Melike ÖZKAN ÇELİK-Hasan Ali Yücel Primary School

Emine Atlım-Sadettin Batmazoğlu Primary School

Stanisława STĘPIEŃ-Przedszkole Samorządowe nr 18 w Kielcach

Pelin BİLGİLİ-Sevgi Çiçekleri Kindergarden

Fotu Ștefania Neta-Kindergarten P.P.”Amicii”

Biljana Loteska-Kindergarten JUDG "Detska Radost"

Gizem Şimşek-Van Ahmet Yesevi Borsa İstanbul Primary School

Once upon a time, there was a puppet living in the forest of dreams. It was a puppet that made everyone look at it again because of his appearance. If you ask why? Let's learn together...

One day the animals decided to have a fun in the forest. Elephants immediately raised their trunks and started shouting.

Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu!

- Dear forest folk! We are having a fun at the square tonight. Call everyone!!

All the animals pricked their ears, and the heard ones informed those who did not hear the news. Hearing that there would be fun, the animals came out of their burrows, stopped hunting, woke up and set off excitedly.

Of course, our little puppet also got very excited for this entertainment. It took a while to get the news because he was living in the furthest home. He immediately put on her best clothes, then looked for his shoes. But, it was a little difficult for our little puppet to wear his shoes. Because the puppet had exactly four legs, and each foot had a different pattern. There were triangular shapes on one foot, squares on the other one, circles on the third, and stars on the fourth.

Our little puppet who wore his shoes in difficulty went on dressing up. now it was time for his arms which are extremely different from others. Our four-footed puppet had two arms like normal people. Yet, he had no palms. He had 6 fingers in total, three of them were in his right hand and three of them were in left. One of his fingers was extremely plump, one of them long and the other one was so small. Our little puppet keeping up beautifying himself, wore one yellow watch to his right arm and 3 red wristbands to his left arm and then tied pink ribbons to his long fingers.

Our puppet, who was adorned with the jewelry he wore on his arms, took his favorite shirt from his closet and pushed his right arm and then left arm into the shirt. He sweated a lot while during it. After taking a breathe, he took the buttons of the shirt between his fat finger and his long finger and buttoned it from the bottom to up. just then, however, he couldn’t be able to button up the third button which was right on his navel. Even though he tugged it with his fingers, it didn't work because the waist of our little puppet was as thin and his belly was huge like a big circle.

While our puppet with a huge belly was thinking about what to do, he decided to keep the button open and quitted buttoning it. The big yellow eyes of our puppet, who opened his eyes wide with the thought that he will stay and I must hurry, became even bigger. The star-shaped eyes of our yellow-eyed puppet were shining brightly like stars. His huge yellow star-shaped eyes were as bright as the sun. Our puppet's eyes, as bright as the sun, brightened everywhere.

Thinking that a nice party could never be without a hat, he immediately started to look for a hat at home. But it could not be such an ordinary hat. At the end, he decided to decorate and use a hat that the rabbit brother gave him the other day. Finally, a huge purple hat came out with rows of cotton clouds and a big yellow daisy at top. He thought that hat would be just right for the jungle party.

The little puppet wearing his hat hurriedly, saw his reflection on the mirror just as leaving his home. He couldn’t believe his eyes. He had forgotten to wear his pants. Quickly, he went back to changing room and began to look for a couple of pants. However, none of his pants were true for the party. Being tired of looking for it, he chose a pair of big checked green pants and decided to change it. First of all, he cut the trotters to make shorter. Because it was too hot and it was hard to walk on the long forest way. Then, he made up a belt with the fabric he cut for his pants. He added one or two purple ribbons matching with his hat. Now, he was ready to set off for the party.

The little puppet thinking he was ready for the party, went out and felt the wet grass on his feet with enjoyment. He was so excited that he forgot to put on his shoes. Now, it was time to choose a couple shoes matching with his clothes. But, he had to find shoes according to the shapes on his feet. He took his yellow sun-shaped shoe for his foot with a circle, chose a rose-pink shoe with red hearts on it for his square-shaped foot. He also got a shoe with blue cloud for his star-shaped foot and took the shoe with a green ribbon for the triangle-shaped foot. Now, his clothing was OK with his colorful shoes. “Hooray!! I am ready for the party” he said and then left home setting off for the party.

The little puppet was so happy that he found some shoes to put on that he decided to head to the party. But he realised that he had so many things to carry and he didnt know how he could possible carry them all. Finally, the puppet decided that it was for the best to take a suitcase. But he didn't want to take any ordinary suitcase. So he went to the brother rabbit for help as he was pleased with the hat that the rabbit gave him earlier. The puppet looked everywhere and couldnt find anything on his likes. As he was ready to give up, he noticed something big and shiny at the top. It was the perfect suitcase for him. He thanked the rabbit again as he was heading with enthusiasm to the party.

His face shined with joy: "I'm going to a party!" His eyes shined like stars on the face that was round, big and pink. It had a small heart-shaped nose. His mouth was big and every time he smiled all his teeth were visible. His curly orange hair protruded from under his hat on all sides, and the hat clung on to his large ears. He loved all the colors and was happy to dress so nicely and colorful for the party. He walked along the forest road and leaned under the big low branches, carefully not to get his hat stuck . He was getting more and more excited but suddenly stopped to think which way through the forest is faster to get to the place where the party will be.

 Your turn. Let's read a book and design your own puppet.