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Ventriloquism
Made Easy
by Kolby King
A handy guide to learn ventriloquism complete with tips and some
great scripts.
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Puppets
I wanted to share a tip that I have been using to make
very inexpensive puppets. Stuffed animals are usually cheap at
garage and rummage sales, and there are so many kinds of characters!
I start by determing where to cut for the hand to fit into then
take out most of the stuffing. Some need a little stuffing left
for filling out the head.
~ Barbara Clinansmith
The World
of Puppets
The 3 of us hosted several puppet-making workshops for friends,
our local homeschool support group, and for our state organization's
conference. Each time, the girls made their own puppet characters,
and the number of homemade puppets in our house multiplied exponentially.
Shay Seaborne's page on homeschooling and puppets.
Beginners
How
to make puppets
Puppets are fun and great for the imagination; this is a small
collection of puppet crafts for children or the whole family.
They are simple enough for children to do by themselves.
 Legends &
Lore - Kid Fun
Directions for making simple puppets for small children. Pages
to color. Poems to read while playing with your puppets. Coming
soon: puppet show scripts!
Puppets
and Marionettes
These crafts projects are for preschool, kindergarten and elementary
school children. The crafts use materials found around the house.
Puppets
to Make
To make an elephant puppet, cat puppet, monkey puppet, or bunny
puppet, click on each of these pictures or their names and they
will take you to their cut outs page. You will need lunch sized
paper bags and crayons.
Sock
Puppets
A Sock is a wonderful thing. It can warm a foot, that's for sure.
Better yet, it can become a zillion different critters. Sock
puppets are easy to make.
Intermediate
Animal
Hand Puppets
Patterns and instructions for making puppets for small hands
or enlarge for older children. Patterns include: bear, cat, owl
and frog.
Apple
Head Dolls
Turn juicy apples into funny, whimsical puppet characters.
Ballerina
Marionette
Make a Ballerina Marionette. When you pull the string, the arms
and legs move.
Sewing Simple Puppet Stages
Here are three ways to make a puppet stage, one for outside, one for a closet, and the other for a doorway.
Advanced
68 Ways to Make
Really Big Puppets
For those of you who are interested in making giant puppets for
pageants, parades, or impressing your friends.
Building
Puppets and Sets
We build many different types of puppets, and we use many different
techniques. Learn about Casting and Molding Large Heads, Casting
Smaller Puppet Heads, Video and Foam Puppets, Giant Walk-Around
Puppets, and Puppet Video Sets.
Make a Hand Puppet
Get started today making your own easy to use hand puppet family,
or use your imagination and design your own hand puppet designs
from this easy pattern.
Puppet
Playhouse Project
This puppet stage is a sturdy and reasonably inexpensive backdrop
for your child's creative world. Here are the directions for
a home--made puppet theater.
Puppeteers
Muppet World
This puppet page wouldn't be complete without a visit to this
stupendous virtual reality site! Once again Jim Henson's creativity
will leave you rolling on the floor, laughing at your computer.
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No Strings
Attached Online
Making and using puppets, a simple stage using PVC pipe, scenery,
how to form a group and fund it, and a half serious, half funny
page on the health hazards of puppetry!
Puppetry
Home Page
Sagecraft Productions presents information about the theater's
most enthralling art form. Learn to make puppets, put on shows,
leave messages for other puppeteers.
Puppetry
Home Page for Story Tellers
A very large site with all sorts of resources for those who love
to tell stories with a puppet. [Puppet graphic from this site.]
The
World of Puppets
A history of British and American puppetry on television. Presented
in a delightful way to try to prove that puppets are not just
for kids.
Scripts
The
Plays the Thing
So...you have puppets, they look alive and you have tons of ideas
for using them. What's the next step? Here are a few facts, opinions
and reminders about puppet plays and puppet playwriting that
might help. From Legends & Lore.
Punch and Judy Plays
By today's standards, these puppet shows are shocking stories
of family violence, but for about a century before Saturday morning
cartoons kids used to adore these characters. Three scripts
dating from 1832, 1851, and 1960 for you to enjoy with your puppets.
Shadow Puppets
Exploring
Shadow Puppets
When a puppet is held in front of a light and behind a translucent
screen, its shadow is visible on the other side of the screen.
Shadow Puppets
Kids can cast a shadowy show of their own with just a few of these simplified paper puppets and a tabletop stage.
Making
Shadow Puppets
Making shadow puppets is fun to do. The materials that you will
need are: a piece of cardboard, a white piece of paper, a stick,
a glue gun, a pencil, a pair of scissors, a puppet screen and
a light.
Tips & Tricks
5
basic techniques of puppetry
Although these basics are important to all levels of puppetry,
the beginner must become proficient enough in these techniques
to the point that they become second nature.
Making
Your Figure Talk
Many people think ventriloquists "throw their voices."
This is not true. It is only an optical illusion. It just appears
that way because the ventriloquist is looking at the figure when
(s)he makes the figure talk. By Carol Greene.
Operating
Hand Puppets
Info regarding "rod arm" puppetry and "human arm"
puppetry, and a little about "combination arm."
Puppet
Manipulation
Until the appropriate gestures and voices are added, a puppet
is just a wiggling lump of cloth. The way you hold and move your
puppet is very important.
Throwing Your
Voice
Sometimes with a puppet that is being held in your arms in front
of your audience, you may want to learn ventriloquism to make
it seem like the puppet is alive, and doing the talking.
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- Puppets
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- Melissa & Doug Deluxe Fuzzy Make-Your-Own Monster Puppet
- Basic puppet shape comes with 30 pieces to create 100's of crazy creatures. Offers hours of creative play.
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- Make Your Own Puppets
- Who says a king has to have a beard and a crown, or that a princess has to have long, flowing hair? With Make-Your-Own Puppets, your child will love making the most whimsical and imaginative puppets to play with for hours. Contains everything needed to create 12 unique puppets.
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- Educraft Make-A-Puppet
- 24 handmade puppets crafted from heavyweight felt for years of rugged use. Includes a book on storytelling, a theater backdrop sheet, precut puppets and assorted felt for easy construction, 6" chenille stems, tracing paper, non-toxic glue and a FREE EduCraft Guide with instructions. Great project for kids of all ages. Make the puppets and plan a show! 5" x 9".
Puppetry Books
Fantastic Theater : Puppets and Plays for
Young Performers and Young Audiences
by Judy Sierra
Thirty puppet plays adapted from nursery rhymes, folk songs,
fables, poetry, folktales, and myths with instructional chapters
on making and using rod and shadow puppets and puppet stages.
Marionettes : How to Make and Work Them
by Helen Fling, Charles Forbell(Illustrator)
Illustrated with literally hundreds of line drawings, which are
both technically useable and quite charmingly humorous. The text,
like the illustrations, simply and clearly presents steps in
construction of puppets from beginning to end.
The Most Excellent Book of How to Be a Puppeteer
by Roger Lade, Rob Shone(Illustrator)
Though color photos and drawings, as well as brief descriptions
this book shows how to make 9 different puppets, including a
basic glove puppet, several rod puppets, shadow puppets, 3 different
marionettes, and a bunraku puppet.
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