A Kennedy Center artist is working with students at Royall Elementary School in Florence this week. Puppeteer Hobey Ford is working with fourth grade students to create shadow puppets.
Ford says the project is an art integration tool that helps children with critical thinking and creativity.
He travels across the country teaching students how to create puppets and also performs puppet shows at the end of his workshops.
Ford said the workshops help students develop not only artistic skills, but also critical thinking skills that they can use in an subject of study.
"The whole art aspect of the project really allows kids to get creative in a different way, they look at puppets as being really fun, but then it actually becomes a learning tool," Ford said.
Ford and the students will put on puppet shows for the rest of their classmates on Thursday.
The students also had to write stories to accompany their puppets.
Ford is based in Asheville, North Carolina.
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