Making Easy Puppets Author:Shari Lewis Shari Lewis is familiar to many as a talented entertainer and televisions foremost puppeteer. Here she shares with the readers of this book some of her most creative ideas and instructions for making more than thirty puppets. By following these simple directions even a very young child can have the fun of making his own puppet. — Using only mater... more »ials which are available in almost every home or are easily and inexpensively obtained, Miss Lewis unfolds a world of exciting creativity by showing how to urn a flip-top cigarette box into a jolly Santa, a carrot into a sinister pirate, or a man's handkerchief into a long-eared rabbit.
There are directions, too, for making four different kinds of stages and doxens of ideas for having fun with puppets - suggestions for plays, and story telling, what to put in a "rainy-day" box, songs to act out with favorite puppets and there is a section which tells the history of puppets and marionettes from earliest times up to the present.
The emphasis here is on simplicity and imagination, a combination that makes this book one that will provide many hours of pleasure for every child.« less