I wanted to do a blog series on the history of puppets in the United States. While searching for information, I discovered that puppetry has been around a lot longer than I thought. Puppetry used by the Native American Nations is fascinating.
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Why did puppets and puppetry ever get started? The consensus of historians is that all over the world puppetry started in the area of the sacred with religious ceremonies. Puppets were used as ritual objects that were animated to either bring forth or to appeal to supernatural forces.
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Next puppet of the month: Dog
I admit that my knowledge of puppet history is pretty limited. I’m aware of Asian shadow puppetry, Punch and Judy and Carnival puppets. That was pretty much it, so I started to investigate with the ever so helpful Google.
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Next puppet of the month: Chinese Dragon
50% off the sloth puppet pattern. Website only sale ends 3-31-22.
Next puppet of the month: Elephant
50% off the camel puppet pattern. Website only sale ends 12-31-21.
Next puppet of the month: Unicorn
The holiday season is right around the corner. Instead of creating a whole new costume pattern for my Person Puppet, I’ll be sharing how to adapt the wizard costume to make a male Christmas nativity character.
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50% off the reindeer puppet pattern. Website only sale ends 11-30-21.
Back in 2015, I created the Cow Puppet Pattern. This pattern has always been a black sheep in the pattern family. I originally made it from a black and white cow printed short fur that I liked. However, the busy pattern made the pictures and video for the pattern hard to see. I eventually changed the tutorial video to a brown cow for better visibility. Eventually I came back to redo the pattern, but ended up creating a cuter cow pattern that I’ve named the Baby Cow Pattern. I planned to replace the original cow with the newer one, but I had the thought that someone might like the older design. So once again the original cow pattern is on the list to redo the photos in the near future.
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