puppets and puppet plays

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

Instructions for making puppets from milk cartons, cereal boxes, paper plates, egg cartons, and other materials.

Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.

Disney's version of the fairy tale about a wooden puppet that was given life by the Blue Fairy who warned him that his nose would grow each time he told a lie. Pinocchio, the puppet finally becomes a real boy after proving himself to be brave, truthful, and unselfish.

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.

Presents a introduction to puppetry and hand puppets, describes finger, wrist, and arm movements that make hand puppets look alive, discusses puppet voices and improvisation, and offers advice on how to stage a puppet show.

Provides step-by-step instructions for people who want to use puppets with literature for children ages two to eight.

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.

A wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.