Puppetry

Look through these resources in preparation for telling your own story through puppetry...

1. Books
- Puppetry: A World History

- The Complete Book of Puppetry
- Making Puppets Come Alive
- Puppet Planet
- Making and Manipulating Marionettes
- Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play
- Puppet Mania
- Storytelling with Puppets
- Plenty of Puppets to Make
- Worlds of Shadow
- Simple Puppets From Everyday Materials

2. Videos
- Puppetry Tips
- Marionettes
- Shadow Puppet example - can't make a puppet? Use your hands!

3. Famous Puppeteers - be inspired!
- Puppeteers (Not allowed to use Wikipedia? Try the links below)
- Jim Henson - find a mini biography here on IMDb
- Shari Lewis (of Lambchop fame)
- NPR article on Big Bird and Oscar's Puppeteer - Caroll Spinney

4. Puppeteers of America (professional organization for puppeteers)

5. Everything Puppetry!

Activities...

1. Practice a few stories with puppets

2. Create your own puppet(s)

2. Create your own story to go with your puppets and perform