How YOU Can Participate in the

2024 Endangered Species Faire

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Walk for Earth Puppet Parade

To learn how to make your own puppet, check out our three-part video series linked below! To visit our “Endangered Species Puppet Making” video series: Click HERE for part 1, click HERE for part 2, and click HERE for part 3.
20 Ways you can participate in the Walk for Earth foot parade:
1. 1. Bring people together to talk about what they value about nature, and then create something together that represents that.
  2. Use recycled materials and your imagination to create the living things of the earth. Use paper rolls, packing materials, newspapers, brown paper bags, and more.
  3. Costumes: You can dress like an endangered species—an animal, a plant, an insect, a bird or a fish. You can make a costume out of fabric or paper or cardboard. Use wire or metal coat hangers to create wings.
  4. Music or Percussion: If you like to make music or you’re in a band, get together with a group to create sound to accompany the parade.
  5. Representations of Nature: As a group or as an individual, you can represent other elements of nature. For example, with crepe paper or construction paper, sticks and leaves, you can create “Elements”—earth, air, fire, and water.
  6. Wear It on Your Back: Make a pair of wings from wire and paper and decorate them to look like your favorite bird or butterfly. Or, using cardboard, create the shell of a turtle or the back of a lady bug.
  7. Headwear: Using cardboard, fabric, feathers, and/or paper, create a headdress to represent an element of nature: the sun, the moon, flowers, beak and head of a bird, stars, a bowl of fruit, a wreath of flowers.
  8. Masks: Create a cardboard mask of your endangered species or element of nature. Wear clothes that reflect the nature of your mask.
  9. Easy Puppets on a Stick: Create cardboard figures and glue or tape them to the end of sticks or create a cardboard puppet of your favorite animal.
  10. Banners: Paint a banner of your favorite ecosystem. Fasten large sticks on each end of your banner to be carried by two (or more) people. Or use your banner to express your ideas about nature or the environment. Save the Earth: Love Your Mother; We Are All Connected.
  11. Signs: You can create single-person signs with pictures and messages: Go Green, Save Forests, Plant Trees, Reduce Plastic.
  12. Flags and streamers: Use rainbow colors, animal colors, water, sky, and garden colors.
  13.Paper Mache Sculpture Puppets: Use newspaper and making tape to create your creature sculpture. Paper mache your creature, and when it’s dry, paint it. You can mount it on a stick, carry it, or haul it in a wagon.
  14. Group fun: Work with a group of friends to create puppets that represent an ecosystem– rainforest, desert, savannah, marsh, woodland creatures and plants.
  15. Even more group fun: create a giant puppet.
  16. The Appalachian Puppet Pageant has materials and steps for making papier mache puppets.
  17. You can carry your paper mache puppet sculptures on a stick or in your hands. Larger puppets can be carried on a wagon.
  18. For two, three, or four-person puppets, you can create a platform of bamboo, dowel rods or wood to carry your puppet together.
  19. Flying puppets sculpture: For winged creatures — butterflies, birds, some insects — attach one end of a string to the puppet and the other to a dowel rod to fly your puppet.
  20. Super-simple paper mache puppet: Use a CD to create the base of a lady bug or other beetle, and use newspaper and tape to create a rounded body. Use pipe cleaners to create legs and feelers.

BECome a Friend of the Faire

You can also BECome a “Friend of the Faire” by making a donation to help support everything that goes into planning this event. To BECome a Friend of the Faire, click HERE or by visiting bit.ly/BEC-FoF.

BECome a Sponsor

Business Sponsorship Tiers

Green Guardian, $1,000+

Become a Guardian sponsor and receive exclusive marketing benefits for your company. This is a fully customized opportunity, terms and conditions negotiable.

Gold Defender, $500+

Sponsorship includes everything mentioned below plus:

Recognition in press releases, print advertising, and radio advertising
Photo opportunities with organization leadership
Company banner placed in high-traffic locations of event (sponsor-provided)
Opportunity to give out relevant promotional items to event attendees

Silver Steward, $250+