Sunday 9 February 2014

Handmade Full Body Puppets For Sale

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By Eula Nichols


Discover the wide variety of handmade full body puppets for sale. Put on a stellar show with creatures, critters, and characters bought ready made. Or design your own marionettes and have custom handmade full body puppets produced especially for your show. Buy your favorite creatures, critters, characters and write a show. Mix and match a wide variety of marionettes to any number of scripts. Or write a show and buy the marionettes you need, ready made or with custom built options.

Therapists working with young children use puppets in play therapy. Shy children will often express themselves through a character, in ways they avoid in direct conversation. Life problems can be acted out and possible solutions explored with puppet characters. Small children may lack the vocabulary to explain their fears or worries. Play therapy lets them act out their concerns.

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.

Education can be entertaining. Shows can include moral and ethical dilemmas and solutions. Use marionettes to act out real life issues and role play ways to handle life's problems. Small children enjoy counting, reading, rhyming, and singing along with cute and fun characters. Favorite books, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes come to life on the stage.

You don't have to be a professional to put on a fun and entertaining show. You do need to practice. Actors must choose voices for their marionettes, and coordinate action on the stage. Professionals spend many hours studying and practicing diction, voice projection, body movement. It takes great skill to coordinate movements, voices, and sound effects. Professionals sometimes choose marionettes with remote controlled animatronics.

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.

The poor in 5th century Greece couldn't afford theater with it's expensive actors. They could afford an entertaining show performed with marionettes, a traveling stage, 2 or 3 operators. The famous Punch and Judy began as a traveling carnival in 16th century England. In Germany, marionettes brought classical opera to the working class.

Today, puppets are often used by comedians, especially for expressing political and cultural satire. They're also popular as children's entertainment. Puppetry is used for fun, education, and therapy, and to explore creativity in art and drama classes. Children develop musical skills with a sing-along. Children's shows often encourage audience participation.

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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