This blog is all about fun reindeer craft ideas. We’ve got a free download of a reindeer paper bag puppet for the kids to make. Another quick craft is to download the free reindeer coloring page from the previous reindeer blog. After coloring the reindeer, cut it out and paste it to a craft stick to make a stick puppet!
Reindeer Fun Facts
Our pattern of the month is the reindeer! To celebrate we are offering a free coloring page that could also be turned into a stick puppet. And in later blogs we will have free downloads of a reindeer paper bag puppet and a pattern to make a simple felt hand puppet which requires no sewing!
Puppet of the Month: Reindeer
50% off the Reindeer puppet pattern. Website only sale ends 12-31-22.
Next puppet of the month: Goat
Japanese Bunraku
Bunraku, the Japanese form of puppet theater is definitely the most striking tradition of puppetry in the world. The stage is large, the puppets are large and some puppets are so complex it takes three puppeteers to manipulate one.
Vietnamese Water Puppetry
I was absolutely intrigued the moment I stumbled across Vietnamese Water Puppetry. It is exactly what the name implies. The puppets and puppeteers are in water giving the illusion that the puppets are floating on top of the water.
Puppets in Canada’s First Nations
Puppetry was an integral part of the lives of the people of the First Nations who lived in Canada for centuries before the arrival of Europeans. As with other ancient cultures around the world, masks, puppets and puppetry were used in religious ceremonies, rituals and dances.
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Puppet of the Month: Penguin
50% off the Penguin puppet pattern. Website only sale ends 11-30-22.
Next puppet of the month: Reindeer
Hopi Corn Maiden
The Hopi who live in the southwest region of the United States utilized quite a few puppets in religious ceremonies. The pageantry of the ceremonies complete with the costumes, dancing, singing and plays could rival any pageant performed today. One ceremony using puppets involves the Maiden Corn Grinders.
Build Your Portable Puppet Stage
Use our plans and instructions PDF to build your own portable puppet stage.
Origins of Puppetry of Southeast Alaska
In this blog, we are traveling to southeast Alaska. The puppets of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest Coast were very elaborate and more varied than the puppets of both the northern region of the United States and Arctic Alaska. The ceremonies were also huge productions.