This blog is all about fun goat craft ideas. We’ve got a free download of a goat paper bag puppet for the kids to make. Another quick craft is to download the free goat coloring page from the previous goat blog. After coloring the goat, cut it out and paste it to a craft stick to make a stick puppet!
Our pattern of the month is the goat! 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 goat paper bag puppet and a pattern to make a simple felt hand puppet which requires no sewing!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this blog we will travel to the frozen Arctic Zone of North America where the Inuit lived. The Yup’ik speakers of Western Alaska still use mechanical figures. Ceremonies were held to celebrate important occasions and to ensure successful hunting.
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