PRACTICAL PUPPETRY: A Threadbare Theater Guide Paperback

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A Threadbare Theater Guide by Mark Burrows.

Mark Burrows’s resources are always creative, practical, and full of unique ways to bring fun and learning into the classroom. 

Fun and creative ideas for using puppets in class & performance, making/building puppets, marionettes and stages from 'found' everything, 5 short scripts with puppets, teaching music concepts with puppets, Mark's Top-Ten Mistakes, and, because puppetry is really about the puppeteer, info on finding the puppet's voice and manipulating it while teaching music concepts.

Set in Mark's fast-read, uplifting, and encouraging style, it's intriguing and possible! Lots of photos, too. Gr. K-4, 68 pp. Paperback

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Contents:

  • Welcome to Threadbare Theatre
  • Puppetry in the Music Room
  • My Top Ten Mistakes
  • Getting a Handle on Puppet Manipulation
  • Helping Your Puppet Find Its Voice
  • Puppetry Watch
  • Developing Your Puppetry Script
  • Night of the Jampire
  • Food Friends
  • The Ant and the Grasshopper
  • Wendell and Lorraine: Promise
  • Wendell and Lorraine: Celebrate
  • Threadbare Theatre List of Stuff
  • Tennis Ball Puppets
  • The "No Hand Turkey" Policy
  • Pull-Tab Eye Puppets
  • Torn-Paper Stick Puppets
  • Telephone-Wire Finger Puppets
  • Cardboard-Tube Dragon Puppet
  • hand Shadows
  • Shadow Puppets
  • Pod Puppets
  • PVC Marionettes
  • Found Object Puppets
  • Plastic Bottle Bunraku
  • Additional Threadbare Friends
  • Puppet Stages

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