Playing make-believe with hand puppets is one of the healthiest playtime activities for bonding with your child. Not only do puppets provide a chance for your child to engage in storytelling in an ...

When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...

How to make a puppet easy and on the fly to keep young children occupied and bring a smile to their faces by learning how to make hand puppets with just a napkin and a character voice. There’s hardly ...

Kermit wasn’t always a frog, and he didn’t start out as a pollywog. Jim Henson’s most beloved Muppet began life as an abstract, “reptilelike thing,” says Dwight Blocker Bowers, curator of the National ...

The 2026 New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival is April 9-13 at venues and outdoor spaces across Bywater and Marigny, and there’s ...

As scenarios go, the one about the dummy that takes over the life of the ventriloquist is nearly foolproof. My favorite variation is the old “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” episode in which the ...

Colorful puppets will perform at the Puppetry Guild of Pittsburgh’s fourth annual Puppet Slam on Saturday at Workingmen’s Beneficial Union in Spring Hill on the North Side. A puppet slam is a showcase ...

“Hand Stories” uses puppets to play out its creator’s past, but the story gets a thumbs down. Mario Del Curto It hits you when the angel puppet with the Queen fixation starts warbling “We Will Rock ...