The Wonderful World Of Handmade Full Body Puppets For Sale

By Eula Nichols


Discover the wide variety of handmade full body puppets for sale. Put on a stellar show with creatures, critters, and characters bought ready made. Or design your own marionettes and have custom handmade full body puppets produced especially for your show. Buy your favorite creatures, critters, characters and write a show. Mix and match a wide variety of marionettes to any number of scripts. Or write a show and buy the marionettes you need, ready made or with custom built options.

Therapists working with young children use puppets in play therapy. Shy children will often express themselves through a character, in ways they avoid in direct conversation. Life problems can be acted out and possible solutions explored with puppet characters. Small children may lack the vocabulary to explain their fears or worries. Play therapy lets them act out their concerns.

Marionettes encourage creativity. Involve children in the characters. Make them part of the script. Ask kids to decide on the voice for a particular character. Make up stories, or let kids make up the story. Name characters for friends and family and incorporate current happenings in their life into a story. Let kids develop and control the sound effects.

Fun shows can be educational telling stories about life events and how to handle problems. Just like Sesame Street, puppets can be used to practice counting and reading skills. Songs and rhymes can be practiced and memorized with audience participation. Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and favorite books come to life on the stage.

Professional puppeteers spend hours honing their skills. They practice and study diction, ventriloquism, body movements, and positioning of characters on the stage. Some custom made marionettes are animated with animatronics that can even be controlled remotely. But with a little practice and a few basic characters, even an amateur can have fun and put on a lively show that will delight the audience.

Puppets of all types and sizes have been used for thousands of years. They've been mythical creatures, gods, and goddesses. They've represented animals to be hunted. They've been characters in elaborate storytelling rituals. They've been toys. Wire controlled marionettes have been found in Egyptian tombs.

Marionettes were used to perform plays for the common man as far back as the 5th century. They were a cheaper form of entertainment than live acting. Punch and Judy shows were a traveling form of entertainment in 16th century England. In Munich, Germany, puppets performed classical opera.

Marionettes used for children's shows can be fun, educational, even character building. Use of puppets in therapy breaks down barriers. In art and drama classes, marionettes stimulate creativity and imagination. But they're not just for kids. Comedians often use marionettes to add characters into their routine. A 3rd person character is a great way to dramatize satire.

Marionettes can be people, animals, creatures, cartoon characters, or superheroes. They can be everyday folk, or kings and queens. Bring life events, current events, stories, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes to life with handmade full body puppets for sale. Explore the full range of human emotion with marionettes. They can be happy or sad, mean or kind, scared or brave.




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