Sunday, February 16, 2014

The Wonderful World Of 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.

Puppetry is often used as a form of therapy. Children love to interact with puppet characters. Shy children come out of their shell to participate in a show. Young children may act out life problems that they're too young to express verbally. Sensitive subjects can be acted out.

Art and drama schools encourage creativity with puppet shows. Kids can develop scripts from their own real life experiences. They can write fantasies and super hero stories, or choose characters to fit a preselected script. Imagination is always required to match marionettes to character roles, decide on voices for their characters, and develop the sound effects.

Shows can discuss real life dilemmas and explore real life answers in an entertaining and non-threatening way. Fun marionettes can play word and number games in the style of the famous Sesame Street characters. Encouraging audience participation helps kids learn rhymes and songs. Kids will be enthralled when they see their favorite book or fairy tale dramatized by marionettes on a stage.

Operating marionettes takes great practice and skill. Professionals study and practice techniques for positioning, diction, voice projection and ventriloquism, and realistic body movement. Marionettes with animatronics can be controlled remotely with a hand held controller or via wifi. But all this isn't necessary to put on a fun show at home, school, or church. Amateur operators can still put on a great show and get lots of smiles and laughter from the audience.

Puppets of all types and sizes have been used for thousands of years. They've been mythical creatures, gods, and goddesses. They've represented animals to be hunted. They've been characters in elaborate storytelling rituals. They've been toys. Wire controlled marionettes have been found in Egyptian tombs.

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.

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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