The Magic of Puppetry

THE MAGIC OF PUPPETRY shows how puppets can help children develop better communication skills, express their creativity, and release repressed emotions. With easy-to-follow instructions, this delightful book shows how to make over 40 types of puppets. Most can be made inexpensively by children themselves.Using such simple everyday materials as paper plates, popsicle sticks, paper bags, socks and gloves, Styrofoam cups, and vegetables,they can create a variety of puppets, such as a scary spider puppet or a potato-head puppet. The author emphasized the therapeutic value of dramatic play, showing how even shy and withdrawn children can become expressive and outgoing with a puppet on the hand. Provides parents, teachers, and others who care for children with an indispensable aid for tapping the rich imagination inside every child.