On a rainy day when they cannot go outside, and their father is folding laundry, a sister and brother create sock puppets with their father's help and put together a show.
The puppetmaster's apprentice, Pirouette Leiter, is tasked to build a wooden assassin by the Margrave of Tavia, or her puppetmaster father will be imprisoned.
I Can Make Puppets will show the reader how to make lovable characters that are as much fun to create as to play with. Using common household odds and ends, construction is no fuss, no mess, with no complicated instructions.
"Offers students opportuniteis to undertake physical computing projects, providing tools and methods for creating electronic puppets. Students learn how to incorporate microprocessors into everyday materials and use them to enhance their language and writing skills with shadow puppet shows featuring their own DIY flashlights."--Back cover.