puppet theater in education

A guide to puppets in the library, providing information about how to select and purchase ready-made puppets, how to make puppets, and how to use them to share books, stories, and songs. Includes patterns.

A collection of over one hundred patterns for puppets made from paper bags, with directions for creating famous Americans, American writers, famous women, presidents, composers, folk heroes, and storybook and Halloween characters. Includes suggestions for the use of the puppets, as well as related riddles and stories.

Shows how to use flannel boards and puppets for storytelling with preschool children.

Describes innovative ways for teachers to use puppets as valuable and developmentally appropriate teaching tools, explaining how puppets can support emergent literacy skills, introduce children's literature, manage the classroom, and assist in the development of lesson plans.

Provides instructions and patterns for making several kinds of puppets and over one hundred story-time activities that teach prekindergarteners and kindergarteners oral and written language, comprehension, and sequencing and build imagination, creativity, and social and emotional skills.

Examines the reasons for using puppetry in the library, and discusses technique; script writing and adaptation; the one-person puppet program; puppets, stages, scenery, and props; and puppetry as part of the librarian's job. Includes five puppet show scripts, and two stage-building plans.

Explains how to make paper masks and puppets for use with stories, songs, and plays. Includes ideas and suggestions on how to use the masks and puppets in different situations.