How to Make Puppets with Children contains all the necessary pattern pieces for making 37 delightful hand puppets and 26 finger puppets that lend themselves to a variety of curriculum areas. Use the puppets to provide a variety of opportunities for practicing oral language skills: retell a story create original puppet shows use the puppets to accompany oral reports about the animal beginning readers may use the finger puppets as they learn their initial sounds Hand puppet subjects include: hippo dragon giraffe bear walrus tortoise cat Other subjects include: girl boy astronaut alien knight princess robot This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.

Puppets & Puppet Theatre is essential reading for everyone interested in making and performing with puppets. It concentrates on designing, making and performing with the main types of puppet, and is extensively illustrated in full colour throughout.Topics covered include: nature and heritage of puppet theatre; the anatomy of a puppet, its design and structure; materials and methods for sculpting, modelling and casting; step-by-step instructions for making glove, hand, rod and shadow puppets & marionettes; puppet control and manipulation; staging principles, stage and scenery design; principles of sound & lighting and finally, organisation of a show.

Finger Puppet Theater presents the classic story of The Three Little Pigs in this brand-new, novelty format with carry-along handle and four felt finger puppets! The story of The Three Little Pigs comes to life in this brand-new novelty format! With a carry-along handle, four adorable felt puppets, and a die-cut stage in the back cover, this board book is chock-full of innovative and imaginative play value. Kids will love acting out the story inside the book, or making up their own version of this classic fairy tale! "Little pig, little pig, let me in!" cried the hungry wolf. The pig replied, "Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!"

This adorable set of two board book editions of Daywalt and Jeffers' bestselling "The Day the Crayons Quit" and "The Day the Crayons Came Home" and two finger puppets gives young readers an exciting new way to engage with these colorful characters. Full color. Consumable.

The adventures of Tiptoes Lightly, who lives in an acorn high up in the branches of a Great Oak Tree.