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Fraser shows how the challenge of designing puppets and staging performances can be as exciting as live theatre. Clear, step-by-step instructions and illustrations demonstrate how to make a variety of puppets--from shadow puppets to Victorian cut-outs to acrobatic marionettes.

Using only your hands and a torch, the game of casting shadow animals has an enduring charm. So, if modern party games seem soulless, bring out The Art of Making Shadows. Just an hour s practice will have you demonstrating the roar of a lion and the snap of a crocodile; soon you ll be putting on an entire show. Friends will become competitive and children will queue to learn how to create their favourites.

With tons of color photographs and a DVD with over 2 hours of hilarious instructional videos, this is the perfect how-to book for all levels of puppetry skill, from beginners to master artisans. With instructions on making hand puppets, turning stuffed animals into puppets, building mechanical puppets, finding accessories, performing, inventing voices, building stages, and more, this is the most comprehensive book of its kind. And with jokes and puppet humor throughout, it’s not just a handbook—...

If you have an aspiring knight, whose dream would be to don sword, shield, helmet, and gauntlets to slay a dragon, then this is the craft book for you. With 15 heroic and daring projects, even the most reluctant of crafters will be keen to get stuck in. With cutting, sticking, painting, and cooking, you can create a prince's exciting world of castles, catapults and crowns. Also with ideas on cake and nibbles for a medieval banquet, the fun carries on long after the craft kit has been packed away...

The traditional puppet comedy as old as Shakespeare, about the ugly little man who happily kills everyone before he is confronted by the Devil.

Instructions for constructing and costuming marionettes, stringing them for one or two hand control, manipulating them, and staging a show.

Put on your very own origami finger puppet show! You can create your own origami theater by making a full range of finger puppet characters! Origami Finger Puppets includes 25 adorable and entertaining step-by-step designs and 25 sheets of origami paper to practice with! Recreate the characters from your favorite movie or Broadway show, or let your imagination guide the characters you create - the possibilities are endless!

Have fun at the farm with this new collection of minis from Kerry Lord and her Edward’s Menagerie animals. This is one of the new gift series from TOFT (Kerry’s yarn company), which contains four books, each with 25 crochet patterns on a different theme: Ocean, Wild, Farm and Pets. These mini animals are quick and easy to make so they are perfect for the beginner as well as giving the more advanced crocheter an afternoon’s fun. The books are practically organised so you start with the...

Stuart Blackburn takes the reader inside a little-known form of shadow puppetry in this captivating work about performing the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic. Blackburn describes the skill and physical stamina of the puppeteers in Kerala state in South India as they perform all night for as many as ten weeks during the festival season. The fact that these performances often take place without an audience forms the starting point for Blackburn's discussion--one which explores not only this imp...

This story of Jim Henson, his childhood, early career and the later development of cartoon characters for commercials and television includes sketches and drawings of many of the characters who later became Muppets.

Arnoldi (associate curator of African Ethnology and Art, Smithsonian Institution) weaves a vivid account of a West African theater tradition from the perspectives of the performers, the audiences, and the local youth associations who make elaborate puppet masquerades and sculpted masks. She examine

People have been using shadow puppets to entertain people for centuries. Learn the history of shadow puppets and the "technology" behind them with this STEAM book that will ignite a curiosity about STEAM topics through real-world examples. Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this book features a hands-on STEAM challenge that is perfect for makerspaces and that guides students step-by-step through the engineering design process. Make STEAM career connections with career adv...