Puppet Theatre [Hardcover]

Maija Baric (Author), Kristiina Louhi (Illustrator)

Book Description

With wit and ingenuity, Maija Baric shows you to transform wooden spoons, pieces of string, holey socks, outgrown clothes and other scrap materials into beautiful, durable and functional theatrical puppets. Once you have made your puppets, discover how to bring them to life, build staging, scenery and props, create sound effects and devise performances. Your puppet creations will bring something truly magical to the everyday world: use them to transform storytime at home or in the classroom; ease children's bedtime rituals; and make a birthday or other occasion really special. Children will love to create their own characters and stories too! It features articles and reviews in parenting, women's, education, craft and drama magazines; local, regional and national newspapers.

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About the Author

Maija Baric studied puppetry at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts, and has been the artistic director of Puppet Theatre Sampo in Helsinki since 1977. She runs courses in puppetry, directs and performs puppet shows and designs and creates theatrical puppets.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 95 pages
• Publisher: Hawthorn Press (January 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1903458722
• ISBN-13: 978-1903458723
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 10.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,244,364 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chock full of ideas youngsters can use for hours of imaginative play!, June 26, 2009

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Kiki B. "The Shepherdess" (Alaska, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puppet Theatre (Hardcover)

This beautifully illustrated book is filled with creative ways to make puppets and puppet stages out of almost anything. Stockings, socks, vegetables, old rags, egg shells...a wide assortment of items are used to create the characters needed for hours of fun storytelling entertainment. This would be a wonderful resource for the classroom or homeschool, inspiring students to use their imaginations in creating stories & the puppets to go along with them. It is not a storybook itself, but merely instructs the reader in how to go about creating various puppets and puppet stages; as such, it would be more appropriate for the upper elementary or "middle-aged" children. Still, the pictures are beautiful to look at, even for emergent readers, and could spark creativity in and of themselves. I'm certainly glad this book was brought to us from Finland!