Sunday, February 9, 2014

Entertain With Fun And Unique Handmade Full Body Puppets For Sale

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.

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.

Fun shows can be educational telling stories about life events and how to handle problems. Just like Sesame Street, puppets can be used to practice counting and reading skills. Songs and rhymes can be practiced and memorized with audience participation. Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and favorite books come to life on the stage.

Professional puppeteers spend hours honing their skills. They practice and study diction, ventriloquism, body movements, and positioning of characters on the stage. Some custom made marionettes are animated with animatronics that can even be controlled remotely. But with a little practice and a few basic characters, even an amateur can have fun and put on a lively show that will delight 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.

Marionettes were used to perform plays for the common man as far back as the 5th century. They were a cheaper form of entertainment than live acting. Punch and Judy shows were a traveling form of entertainment in 16th century England. In Munich, Germany, puppets performed classical opera.

Marionettes used for children's shows can be fun, educational, even character building. Use of puppets in therapy breaks down barriers. In art and drama classes, marionettes stimulate creativity and imagination. But they're not just for kids. Comedians often use marionettes to add characters into their routine. A 3rd person character is a great way to dramatize satire.

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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Unknown said...

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