Here is some excellent vintage footage of the master puppeteer Jim Henson from 1969 where he shows the various different types of puppets you can make.
It is very interesting to see the essence of some of Henson’s favorite muppet characters in these basic puppets. Lots of great ideas here for making puppets for kids, especially the potato head and fruit puppets as well as the classic sock puppet.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
How to make puppets with Jim Henson vintage footage 1969 - Preschool Puppets
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Halloween Puppets - Halloween Puppet Ideas for Preschoolers - Preschool Puppets
Halloween is a fun time of year. The kids get all excited about dressing up and trick-or-treating and eating all that Halloween candy. It’s also a great time to have fun with puppets.
There are lots of spooky Halloween characters that you can make or buy to perform a Halloween puppet show. Kids love spooky stories. You can get some monster puppets like Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy or a Werewolf and act out some silly spooky shows.
Scary graveyard ghost stories or ghosts and goblins in a haunted house with witches and bats are some fun ideas you can put into a Halloween puppet show. You may want to tell some of the classic Halloween stories like Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven or the Tell-Tale Heart or the story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
You could even do a retro Michael Jackson Thriller puppet show. Zombie puppets would be fun and the possibilities are practically endless. You could make a zombie bride puppet and some zombie bikers.
If you want to go a little less scary you can do a story like the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin story or a Scooby Doo type mystery. Or just a fall pumpkin patch story with pumpkins, bats and black cats or other furry animals and how they would celebrate Halloween and maybe about them going trick-or-treating.
You could even use puppets to go along with your child’s Halloween costume. Maybe they could go as an alien with three heads and have one of the heads be a puppet head attached to the costume and have a fake arm so that they can use their hand to work the puppet. They could even go as a puppet theatre like a Punch and Judy show.
Of course, kids love the Sesame Street muppet characters and can dress up as them for Halloween. Elmo and Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby and Grover are fun ideas for Halloween costumes of their favorite puppets pals.
You could have a children’s Halloween party and put on a puppet show with all the creepy monsters or pumpkin pals you want. You can give out little Halloween finger puppets as party favors or to trick-or-treaters in addition to or instead of candy.
Puppets are a wonderful addition to your child’s life whether it be at school, home, place of worship, or theatre. Special occasions and holidays can also be a great time to use puppets to entertain children of all ages. Halloween can be one of those times too.
Spooky Shadow Puppets for Halloween - Preschool Puppets
Here is an easy craft idea for some spooky Halloween shadow puppets that you can make with your preschoolers.
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