Some Thoughts about Shadows

A shadow is the image cast on some surface by a person or thing blocking the light
                                - the dictionary








Whose shadow is this?






 



Whose shadows are these?








 With a bright light behind you, you can make a shadow show on a wall.

You can make a rabbit,

Or a swan,












Or a funny man.














Try it! Can you make a flying bird?
Or a snake?

Make up a story with your shadow characters.

Here is a poem about shadows by Robert Louis Stevenson:

                               My Shadow

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—

Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;

For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,

And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.

He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,

And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.

He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;

I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,

I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;

But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,

Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.