SUPERBIRD save my PUPPY
I trained several birds to perform to perform this 1 act playlet.
Picture the scene
Outside a pretend burning house a little girl is crying her heart out, her puppy Sweetie is trapped inside. She tries to re-enter the house but she's beaten back by the heat & smoke.
The bell at the fire station rings out as a fire engine towed by a parrot & carrying a crew of smaller birds races to the scene.
The engine comes to a halt outside the burning house. The crew jump off as water is squirting from the engine onto the flames. The heat is so intense none of the firemen can enter the building.
"If only Super Bird were here", cries the little girl, sobbing loudly.
With a screeching of tyres, Super Bird makes his entrance. He drives his car up against the burning building, beneath an open window. Leaping from his SUPER BIRD CAR & without any hesitation S,B, disappears through the window.
Meanwhile the SUPER CAR turns itself around & away from the flames ready for SUPER BIRDS departure.
After a few moments S.B. emerges via the front door clutching the puppy. He hands the puppy to the little girl & without waiting for any thanks, he climbs aboard his SUPER CAR & disappears as quickly as he came. The firemen put out the fire, climb aboard their engine & trundle back to the fire station.
Our hero SUPER BIRD, has once again saved the day.
You will need.
Two pieces of cardboard painted to represent. The fire station & the burning house. The station has a door big enough for the engine & birds to exit.
The burning house has an exit door & a cut-out window at the same height as the roof ot the super car, So S.B. can jump down into the house through the open window. Joss sticks (optional) for the smoke. Red bulb for fire.
One plastic pull-along fire engine, glue some perches on its roof & a wire bent & fixed to the front so the parrot can pull it along.
One or two of those squirty flower tricks from a joke shop. The ones you ask a pal to smell, & you squirt water in his face. These are to put out the, 'not real' fire out.
A cut-out card shape of a puppy, or make a little stuffed dog if you prefer, the little girl is a glove puppet.
S.B's vehicle. I bought a plastic pull-along double decker bus & sliced off the backend to make an entrance, & for an exit I cut a portion from the roof at the front. So S.B. could ride inside looking out of the roof.
I stuck on some plastic bits & painted it to look like a car fit for a super hero. To both vehicles, tie two lengths of string to the front end. One string pulls them towards the burning house & the other turns the vehicles round & pulls them back again.
Simple!............
Teaching your birds.
Riding. Birds just love to ride once they have had a go, so no problem there. The fire crew ride to the scene & dismount looking for the few millet seeds scattered about. It makes them look busy. The little girl is a glove puppet.
Fetch, teach S.B. & play this wearing the glove puppet. So the bird reacts to it. See "TEACH FETCH, & PULLALONG PARROT" post's.
Now just add those simple tricks together.
..................................Have fun with your birds....Yours B.J.
