marionettes

Explains how to create sock puppets and put on shows for your friends and family with these fun activities.

A piece of wood becomes a mischievous marionette and then a real boy.

Fozzie can't sleep because he's afraid of the dark.

Join Pooh and his pals as they search for the perfect valentine for Eeyore.

Adventures of the puppet boy whose nose grew whenever he told a lie.

A version of Pinocchio in which Geppetto creates a small wooden boy who comes alive and goes on adventures with Jiminy Cricket, eventually reuniting with his father.

A retelling of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute," including a biographical section about Mozart and a behind-the-scenes account of a performance of the work by the Salzburger Marionettentheater, illustrated with photographs.

Presents how to use traditional and contemporary techniques and materials to create the four types of puppets--hand, shadow, rod, and marionette.

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.