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 use puppets as play therapy. Talking through a character can bring shy children out of their shell. Kids often make up scripts showing traumas and concerns they're unable or afraid to talk about. Sensitive subjects can be discussed in the 3rd person. Very young children don't have the vocabulary to explain their worries, but they can show them through role playing with puppets.
Art and drama schools encourage creativity with puppet shows. Kids can develop scripts from their own real life experiences. They can write fantasies and super hero stories, or choose characters to fit a preselected script. Imagination is always required to match marionettes to character roles, decide on voices for their characters, and develop the sound effects.
Education can be entertaining. Shows can include moral and ethical dilemmas and solutions. Use marionettes to act out real life issues and role play ways to handle life's problems. Small children enjoy counting, reading, rhyming, and singing along with cute and fun characters. Favorite books, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes 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 have been used around the world for thousands of years, sometimes as entertainment, sometimes in traditional rituals and ceremonies. The oldest known references to puppetry are 2000 years old from both India and Asia. Wire controlled marionettes have been unearthed in Egyptian tombs. African tribal groups used hand controlled figurines for magic, ritual, drama, and storytelling.
The poor in 5th century Greece couldn't afford theater with it's expensive actors. They could afford an entertaining show performed with marionettes, a traveling stage, 2 or 3 operators. The famous Punch and Judy began as a traveling carnival in 16th century England. In Germany, marionettes brought classical opera to the working class.
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.
Therapists use puppets as play therapy. Talking through a character can bring shy children out of their shell. Kids often make up scripts showing traumas and concerns they're unable or afraid to talk about. Sensitive subjects can be discussed in the 3rd person. Very young children don't have the vocabulary to explain their worries, but they can show them through role playing with puppets.
Art and drama schools encourage creativity with puppet shows. Kids can develop scripts from their own real life experiences. They can write fantasies and super hero stories, or choose characters to fit a preselected script. Imagination is always required to match marionettes to character roles, decide on voices for their characters, and develop the sound effects.
Education can be entertaining. Shows can include moral and ethical dilemmas and solutions. Use marionettes to act out real life issues and role play ways to handle life's problems. Small children enjoy counting, reading, rhyming, and singing along with cute and fun characters. Favorite books, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes 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 have been used around the world for thousands of years, sometimes as entertainment, sometimes in traditional rituals and ceremonies. The oldest known references to puppetry are 2000 years old from both India and Asia. Wire controlled marionettes have been unearthed in Egyptian tombs. African tribal groups used hand controlled figurines for magic, ritual, drama, and storytelling.
The poor in 5th century Greece couldn't afford theater with it's expensive actors. They could afford an entertaining show performed with marionettes, a traveling stage, 2 or 3 operators. The famous Punch and Judy began as a traveling carnival in 16th century England. In Germany, marionettes brought classical opera to the working class.
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.