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Do you want to hop aboard one of the hottest waves in children's ministry? Puppets are the craze these days! Get some tips for starting a puppet ministry here.

Directions for making finger puppets from old stray gloves, socks, and mittens with no matches.

Having a puppet ministry can be costly, so you want to be sure to take care of your puppets properly. Here are some handy tips for making sure they are stored correctly.

Make your own puppets and then put on a play!

These puppets are perfect for a birthday party, or even an ordinary rainy day. With everyday craft materials you can make a butterfly, bird, or fun animal puppet.

Metallica's 1987 Master of Puppets blends thrash metal with a more epic and complex sound, creating one of Metallica's strongest albums.

These cute animal bath mitt puppets are easy to sew from washcloths, and they make tub time fun for toddlers and young children. They're also a terrific baby shower gift.

March comes in like a lion, and out like a lamb! Try this simple lamb stick puppet in your preschool classroom.

Be it a rainy day, birthday party or just because the kids are looking for something to do, making hand puppets are fun, easy and allow kids to express themselves.

Combine lessons on art and environmental awareness in this fun preschool puppet making activity!

Looking for a cute and simple art project for kids? Try these fun and easy paper finger puppets that children are guaranteed to love.

Karagoz play is the most reputed puppet show in Turkey. Don't miss to watch it at Bursa, while paying a visit to Turkey.

Early childhood educators can help preschool aged children to create this fun, fall themed art project. The autumn leaf puppet is a great way to inspire dramatic play.

Halloween is a great time to try a new craft in the early childhood classroom. This lesson plan details how to make a Halloween ghost puppet with preschoolers.

Using puppets is fun! Children will be able to explore new ideas and create many different situations with the puppets they make.

Get creative and make Santa Claus Christmas hand puppets in the early childhood classroom. This is a great holiday activity for children in preschool or daycare.

This person puppet will "walk" and wave when you wiggle the stick back and forth. You can make the head from paper, or from a balloon.

Opened in 1900 in the center of Bavaria's capital city, the Munich Marionette Theater is the oldest dedicated puppet theater in the world and is still going strong.

Puppets are often linked with childhood pleasures, but the Javanese wayang kulit is a sophisticated form of puppetry, using silhouettes for characters to come to life.

Even creators Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty didn't guess that their musical Avenue Q would become a Broadway musical hit and Tony Award winner.

Drama lesson activities on the theme of mirrors and puppets develop synchronization of movement, sharing ideas, working cooperatively and creating effects with the body.

Years ago people would make puppets using odd socks, buttons and yarn. They would sew the buttons on the sock for eyes and sew the yarn on top for hair.

Easily adapted for a western, fairytale or animal theme, these sock puppets are easy to make and work well for action songs and stories.

Calvinism is often accused of categorising humans as robots, computers or puppets. This argument does not correctly engage with the Calvinist position.

The Jim Henson Company's Puppet Up! Uncensored debuts on Monday, November 20th at 11 pm (ET, PST) on TBS, featuring adult-oriented improv comedy from Muppet creators.

Kihachiro Kawamoto worked with the masters of stop motion in Japan and Europe. Sixty years on, he's still making anime with puppets, enchanting all ages.

March comes in like a lion, and out like a lamb. Start the month off with this simple puppet project.

Perfect for a spring, summer or animal theme, these paper plate frog puppets are easy to make and work well for action songs and stories.

"What the %^&* is this Puppet Up! thing?" you ask. Check out TBS' site to view clips from the show.

Puppet Up! Uncensored takes the show on the road, as they hit Anaheim, Sydney and Melbourne.

A review of the Salzburg Marionette Theater's latest touring production, an all-puppet adaptation of Rogers and Hammerstein's classic The Sound of Music.

Puppet Up! Uncensored is the Muppet Show meets Whose Line Is It Anyway? It's not for kids, but for adults who grew up on Jim Henson's inspired brand of lunacy. It rocks.

On Thursday, September 17, 2009, the nineteenth season of CBS's hit reality series Survivor debuted with twenty new castaways, including the biggest villain ever.

Give a toddler toys that he and his parents are likely to appreciate and play with again and again.

Everyone loses at least one glove a winter. This article gives ideas for Easter crafts using the odd gloves.

Shadow plays depict fantastic stories of folklore and mythology, but their stories of origin are equally fascinating as they are vastly differing.

By using simple household items to entertain their young children, parents can save time and money shopping for expensive toys.

Julia Donaldson's book The Gruffalo is a hysterical read for young children, who relate to the devious but small big bad mouse. Make a mouse shadow puppet.

Recruiting puppeteers is a very important part of a Puppet Ministry. It takes some serious thought to find people who are willing to act goofy!

Travelling with kids to Calgary, Alberta? Here's where to find the best children's plays, musicals, puppets, physical theatre, festivals and art events in the city.

Setting up a reading center in you classroom can provide many independent activities for students to complete while you are working with a small group.

Based on the Manga by Masamune Shirow, 1995's anime Ghost in the Shell delivers an incredible vision of the future where the line between cybernetics and humanity is lost

Kids can create an alphabet book, a texture collage, or a group of finger puppets that will entertain young siblings, cousins, and friends.

Use these lesson ideas to teach students all about the letter L.

Whether teaching in a school, home school, or camp, it is easy to adapt one of these basic projects and include a craft at the end of any topic.

Published in dozens of languages and read by millions of children and adults, the tale of the wooden puppet made famous by Disney's 1940 cartoon first appeared in 1881.

In this exclusive interview, Disney puppetmaker Bob Baker talks about working with Walt Disney, his animators and the classic Pinocchio.

Kinosuke Takeda is little known in the English-speaking world, but he was one of Japan's pioneering TV puppeteers as well as a great traditional puppet artist.

January New Year writing prompt tips & drama game ideas to teach language arts skills like plot, dialog, setting, fictional story writing, oral presentation & vocabulary.

SNK gives players a giant puppet automation whose fighting style is drastically different from the rest of the cast.