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Oakley's Shadow Choice Garden

A gentle thinking game with animal shadows

Pick Rock, Paper, or Scissors. Oakley picks too.

Watch one example first:
Rock
→ beats →
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Scissors
Rock beats Scissors!
✊ Rock → beats → ✌️ Scissors
✌️ Scissors → cut → ✋ Paper
✋ Paper → covers → ✊ Rock
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🧠 Rock beats Scissors · Scissors beat Paper · Paper covers Rock

Choose your shadow!

Make Shadow Animals

Try each hand shape, then play with Oakley.

💡 Try this near a wall with a lamp or window light.

Hand-Play Shadow Theatre

Choose a visual guide, practise the hand shape, watch the shadow, then come back and play with Oakley.

The art of hand-play animal shadows, also known as shadowgraphy or ombromanie, uses bare hands and a single light source to cast recognizable silhouettes. It connects to Eastern shadow-puppet traditions developed for narrative storytelling. In early 19th-century Europe, hand-play shadows became a theatrical stage art in concert-cafés, shaped by Italian performers, the French artist known as Théo R. (Théodore Revel), and the English performer Félicien Trewey.

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