Wednesday, 12 February 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.

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.

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 around the world for thousands of years, sometimes as entertainment, sometimes in traditional rituals and ceremonies. The oldest known references to puppetry are 2000 years old from both India and Asia. Wire controlled marionettes have been unearthed in Egyptian tombs. African tribal groups used hand controlled figurines for magic, ritual, drama, and storytelling.

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.

Handmade full body puppets for sale include animals, people, cartoon characters, or mythical creatures. They can represent cultural figures and everyday life. They can represent kings and queens and superheroes. Fairy tales or nursery rhymes come to life. Marionettes can show joy or sadness. They can be naughty or nice, aggressive or shy, kind or cruel.




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