Shadow Puppets - The Odyssey

What's the best way to calm down your kids before bedtime? There's an universal consensus on that! Low light and bedtime stories. And how to make this more entretaining to parents and kids? A low light Shadow Puppet Theater! This project provides a very easy print of the main characters for the classic The Odyssey story. Printing Notes Black filament gives the strongest contrast. With a 0.2mm nozzle you get better details. You can modify the scale as you wish. This is how I tell the story for my 3 years old: Once upon a time, a brave and clever captain named Odysseus wanted to sail home to his family. He jumped into his big wooden boat and started a long journey all by himself across the deep blue sea. One day, the wind blew his boat to a strange, rocky island. Odysseus wanted to find some food, so he walked into a giant cave. Suddenly, a shadow covered the doorway. It was the Cyclops—a giant creature as tall as a tree, with only one big, round eye right in the middle of his forehead! The Cyclops was not friendly. He rolled a massive rock in front of the cave opening so Odysseus could not get out. "You are trapped!" the giant laughed. But Odysseus was very, very smart. He didn't panic. He waited until the giant fell fast asleep and was snoring loudly. Then, Odysseus used a clever trick to slip right past the giant's fingers, roll a corner of the rock away, and run out into the sunshine. He sprinted down to the beach, jumped into his boat, and rowed away as fast as he could! As he escaped, Odysseus shouted back to the island, "I beat you!" This made the Cyclops so angry that he cried out to his father, Poseidon, the mighty king of the ocean. Poseidon looked down from his underwater palace and saw the little boat sailing away. He was furious that someone had tricked his son! Poseidon slammed his giant trident into the water. SPLASH! The ocean began to boil and bubble. Poseidon blew a big breath of air to make furious winds, creating waves as tall as skyscrapers. The l