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Thursday 20 February 2014

Entertain With Fun And Unique Handmade Full Body Puppets For Sale

By Eula Nichols


Puppet shows are sure to put a smile on anyone's face. If you have a script but need the characters, you can buy handmade full body puppets for sale. There are many characters and creatures ready made for purchase that fit a variety of scripts. Or be creative. Buy a few fun characters and develop your own script. Bargain sites offer a variety of interesting characters. Professionals may want to design and order custom built characters.

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.

Marionettes encourage creativity. Involve children in the characters. Make them part of the script. Ask kids to decide on the voice for a particular character. Make up stories, or let kids make up the story. Name characters for friends and family and incorporate current happenings in their life into a story. Let kids develop and control the sound effects.

Fun shows can be educational telling stories about life events and how to handle problems. Just like Sesame Street, puppets can be used to practice counting and reading skills. Songs and rhymes can be practiced and memorized with audience participation. Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and favorite books 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 in every culture for thousands of years. Wire controlled figures of clay and ivory have been found in Egyptian tombs. African ethnic groups used hand controlled figurines in ritual dramas, and healing and hunting ceremonies. Asia and India have a history of puppetry dating back at least 2000 years.

Marionettes were used to perform plays for the common man as far back as the 5th century. They were a cheaper form of entertainment than live acting. Punch and Judy shows were a traveling form of entertainment in 16th century England. In Munich, Germany, puppets performed classical opera.

Marionettes are popular today with adult audiences. Comedians used them to explore and satirize current events, political debates, and cultural clashes. Puppetry also remains a popular form of education for children, on TV and on the stage. Kids learn the alphabet, counting, and reading. They learn memorization and vocabulary from nursery rhymes and songs. Kids just naturally use their imaginations when given the chance to produce and/or participate in a show.

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.




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