puppet making

Shows young storytellers how to create their own props and use them to enhance their performances.

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.

Instructions, patterns, and photographs reveal how to create twenty-one puppets--hand, glove, and marionette.

An introduction to creating twenty-nine puppets from paper, papier m ach e, cloth, and various items found around the house.

Describes how to make and operate many types of puppets--from sock and shadow puppets to marionettes--and how to create puppet theaters.

Directions and diagrams for making various types of puppets, dressing and handling them, setting up a stage, and writing and producing one's own show. Includes three puppet plays.

Provides instructions and practical advice on how to make various kinds of puppets, how to construct a puppet stage, and how to present a show.

Presents instructions for making marionettes and hand, rod, and shadow puppets from scrap materials found in the home and at school. Includes directions for manipulating the puppets.

Easy directions for making puppets out of such materials as gloves and mittens, paper plates and cups, cardboard tubes, or socks.