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.
