FamilyFun: Six Homemade Puppets - and More Family Fun

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by Mimi Sherman

Six homemade puppet ideas from FamilyFun

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Kids are born puppeteers. From the time they're old enough to sit up and carry on a simple puppets

conversation, you'll find them inventing voices and personalities for every toy in their toy box: stuffed elephants who sing, action figures who dance, dolls who hide from the dark.

Extremely popular with kids today, puppetry is actually one of the oldest theatrical traditions and has endured throughout the ages. From Ancient Greece to Eastern Europe, it has functioned as high dramatic art, religious ceremony and political satire.

To help inspire your kids' natural penchant for puppets, we've put together a collection of homemade characters. To find out how to make sock puppet animals, wacky felt finger puppets, Japanese shadow puppets and more, just click on the sidelinks to the right.

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IN THIS ARTICLE:

	Intro
	Sock Puppets
	Finger Puppets
	Papier-Mâché Puppets
	Shadow Puppets
	Vegetable Puppets
	Paper-Plate Puppet