Practical Puppetry A-Z

<p> Puppetry is an exciting flexible malleable art form that can engage the creative forces of children or adults. Puppets can not only tell a story they can be used to enhance the curriculum present an idea or a concept in a compelling way or teach any number of necessary skills. Children and adults presenting a puppet play are given a sense of their own inventive power.</p><p> This reference work offers an A to Z view of working with puppets. It covers everything from the basic strategies of advertising and marketing puppet productions to assembling the puppets out of household materials such as paper bags cereal boxes or gloves to the more elaborate sculpting of armatures. Stages curtains and props are also discussed along with the history of puppetry. Numerous illustrations give a visual of many of the finished products. This work concludes with an annotated bibliography and index.</p>