Educator Workshops

PUPPETRY: TECHNIQUES TO ENCHANT CHILDREN

Delightful demonstrations of simple-to-make puppets to use in familiar stories  and songs will encourage participants to share puppetry with children. Many puppet ideas will be presented to enchant children: hand, rod, glove and shadow puppets and marionettes. Enjoyable and fun! Become enchanted!

Each story or song will be presented as it would be to the children, followed by an explanation of how to make and manipulate the puppets. How to use the children to help in the puppet story is discussed.

Cost - $300
Length - 1 1/2 hrs

A teacher and her puppet creation

MAKE & TAKE: NEON PAPER PUPPETRY WORKSHOP

Educators will create Fluorescent paper hand puppets and perform behind a Black  light puppet stage. Master puppeteer, Jean Kuecher, will inspire the teacher/ puppeteers to manipulate and speak for their puppets. Groups of 3 or 4 persons  will create their own original puppet show from behind a hand puppet stage.

All supplies will be provided. Educators will take their own original puppet creations back to their classrooms. Be a Puppeteer the next day for your students!

Cost - $300
Length - 1 1/2 hrs
 

MAKE & TAKE: ITSY BITSY SPIDER PUPPET SHOW

Take home a puppet show! Make a Puppet Show in a Cup of The Itsy Bitsy Spider, complete with the spider, sunshine and rain cloud puppets. And learn how to use them!

Cost - $300
Length - 1 1/2 hrs