A Puppet Theater From the Past
When I was about 9 or 10 years old, my Dad helped me build my puppet theater. We put a string of Christmas lights on the front of the stage and built a curtain to open and close for each performance. It seemed so real it was like I was the great producer of a real show.
Puppet Theaters
I had a wonderful time making string puppets from cloth on an old sewing machine that my Mom let me use. It was an old pedal style sewing machine. I made the bodies from cloth and stuffing. The puppets had legs with knee joints and arms with elbow joints. The faces were just whatever I could design with crayons and marking pens but they were mine and I loved them. I made wigs with yarn and then set up the puppets with strings and cross sticks at the top.
Perhaps I didn’t have the most beautiful puppets but I was allowing my imagination to grow. Not only was I designing my own puppets, but I wrote plays and then acted them out. Even though my audience was only an occasional friend or my “biased” Mother, it was a whole lot of fun to do. There was so much satisfaction from being the “creator” of my own show.
Kids spend a lot of time on video games. Now, I did try one of these race car games recently and found that it was really hard to do. Although it certainly builds reaction ability, the creativity level was limited to car color and accessory choices. Then you sit like a robot in front of a TV screen tensed perhaps because you are not in first place in the race.
If you feel that your children need encouragement to do activities other than television, computers and video games, why not nudge them into an activity that requires thinking, imagining, and creating like doing their own puppet show. Spend some time with your child “imagination building!” You can see some of our “imagination builders” at our website when you click on the link below.
A Puppet Theater From the Past
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