Storytelling plays a crucial role in preserving the cultural heritage of indigenous communities in Malaysia, serving as a means of transmitting knowledge, values, and identity across generations. This study explores how storytelling can be constructed from the collective lived experiences of indigenous children from the Mah Meri communities and translated into a public puppet parade performance. Utilizing the engaged arts approach, indigenous children shared observations of their village to their experiences and traditions. These findings were subsequently interpreted into a script and puppet performance. Findings reveal that children’s storytelling is deeply rooted in their environment and communal interactions, including technology-based communication such as social media, offering contemporary insights into their cultural worldview. Transforming their lived realities into a contemporary art puppet performance reinforces the Mah Meri identity, preserving centuries-old culture, language and indigenous knowledge that promotes biodiversity, self-governance in the modern world where dominant systems have become increasingly unsustainable.