Today we're going to be mainly picking the section that we want to be in, whether it's going to be like, a pig or a spider or a plant.

Do you guys want to be in this section?

(SciGirls) We're here to find out about this section.

We have some questions about this section.

(Izzie) "Section, section"-- yeah, where's the tall section?

What are you guys going to build?

Ah, well, we don't know.

Hi!

Hey you guys.

Bow is an engineer/puppeteer who works at Heart of the Beast, and he's very cool and stuff.

So you're here for May Day.

All right!

Bow is helping us with making the puppet.

You've been looking around the theater, looking at different stuff?

And you're gonna continue around and you want to look at all the ones?

Okay.

Cool.

Bye.

We would like to get some nose dots please.

Oh awesome, what color would you like?

(SciGirls) It's a tradition that we get dots of paint on our nose 'cause it's fun.

This one was interesting, they're kind of all individual.

If we're all just in this separate, we aren't really making a puppet together.

There was a bunch of options, but they were sort of small, like just a mask or something, and we wanted to do something together.

I sort of think we should do a pig, and we could engineer it to move.

Do you guys remember that bear last year?

You know how it blinked its eyes?

Yes.

I think we should have our pig blink his eyes.

Maybe we could somehow get sound effects.

It'd be cool if we could have the pig have a baby.

We do a birth pig?

I don't know.

That'd be kind of interesting.

So big enough that we could sit in it and... Or there could be 2 people in it and 2 people walking by the side.

This year we decided to make a pig puppet.

Okay, I think we should talk to Bow.

So I want to show you this puppet warehouse.

This is where we keep all the puppets.

Here it is!

(SciGirls) Oh, that's cool.

Wow!

Look it!

They're just puppets.

Whoa.

(Bow) Take a look at some of the things, like, if you like the shape or the size.

You're going to be in the middle of the street, and people are going to be far away, so you want to have something that's kind of big.

This should be big enough.

I like that size.

How could we get something that big to move though?

We could use poles, like bamboo or something.

Oh yeah, or maybe wheels.

I'm going to show you something that might help you with this, it's called a backpack puppet.

As you see, it's a real simple frame, and this is the backpack, and then you build the puppet up over like this, so you can be a giant, giant puppet.

Whoa, a giant, giant puppet?

Yeah, just what the candidate ordered!

Another neat way of making your puppet come to life, and it's something that could come out of it, into the audience--chipmunk!

[Bow smacks his lips] (SciGirls) Whoa!

Oh weird.

What is it?

Yeah, what is it?

[pssst!]

Eaah.

Ha-ha!

That's cool.

So that's another little surprise you could put in.

Wow, I love this glossy thing.