Figures in Motion (A REVIEW)

Disclosure: I received this complimentary product through the Homeschool Review Crew

We love projects that make the people and the stories we are learning about come alive! What's even better are the projects that I don't have to plan and prep for. Figures in Motion makes this so easy to do with several books to choose from, all containing famous figure puppets to make and play with, and from different time periods. For this review we received Famous Figures of the Middle Ages & Renaissance.

Figures in Motion!

We have used these in years past and have just loved putting them together. This time was no different and we were excited to receive another book full of paper dolls to assemble.   

The cover of the book we received: Famous Figures of the Middle Ages & Renaissance

To assemble these dolls/puppets very few supplies are needed, scissors, hole punch, and wire brads. These can easily be acquired from a local craft store or if you already do a lot of lapbooking or scrapbooking you probably already have them on hand like me! (I received all the supplies needed with this review, but when purchased normally these supplies don't come with the book unless you order them separately through Figures in Motion)

 

Each book comes with full color and ready to color in pages of each doll. The easy to pull out pages are printed on thick sturdy paper so the dolls will last. The lines for cutting are clear and easy to follow allowing for kids who can cut to do it themselves, and the directions are super simple.

Ready to color doll

Full color doll

 

The first doll that my 10 year-old (4th grader) chose to make was Leonardo Da Vinci. He wanted to learn more about him, so that's what we started with. He isn't confident in his cutting skills, so I helped him by cutting out the harder pieces. Then he was able to do the hole punches and assembly himself.

 

 

If you can see on the picture below, the back of the puppet has letters to match the joints, that's how easy the directions are! It also gives a brief description of the famous figure.

 

For the final product you have a fully movable paper puppet to use however you want, little plays, on craft sticks, in a stop-motion movie, whatever the imagination comes up with!

We chose to read some books to go along with our Leonardo Da Vinci puppet. There is a list of suggested books in the Famous Figures book that we checked out from the library. We also chose a few more. 

Our book collection to go with Leonardo Da Vinci's Famous Figures puppet.

 I also plan to store the puppets on a foam poster board with Velcro so they can be pulled off and played with anytime. So far we have 2, as we've also cut out and learned about Elizabeth the 1. And we'll just add in the other puppets we've made from our other Famous Figures in Motion book to this board as well!

Our foam poster board with completed famous figures puppets velcroed to it for safe keeping until they are needed for play or study.

The Figures in Motion books are a fun addition to any homeschool study and make learning really fun for all ages, but especially younger ones. They make a good supplement, or even a starting point for your history studies. So many possibilities with them! If you'd like to see how others used these and even other titles from Figures in Motion, click on the banner below.