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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Whether your script calls for people, animals, mythical creatures, or cartoon characters, there are handmade full body puppets for sale to meet your needs. If you don't find the character you're looking for, submit your design for a custom made full body marionette. Audiences will be fascinated watching marionettes bring stories to life, all kinds of stories with characters sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes cruel, sometimes kind, sometimes brave, sometimes cowardly.




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