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It was a Summer Reading Extravaganza by Puppet Pizzazz! The kids saw some amazing puppets in action!
Christie made a puppet theater for Mara for Christmas this year, but they're designed to fit on tension rods in a doorway, and Kate and Jeff don't have a good doorway for that.
Building the frame was my job, and I turned to that great DIY crutch, PVC pipes.
Also, it's not particularly relevant, but Jewel insisted on being the picture.
Poison Ivy joined the cast today. The basic construction is similar to the other plants...foam rubber and Noodles for the shaft plus some Dollar Tree vines around ropes. I found Ivy vines, but I had to add a third leaf to each group of two. ("Leaves of three, leave them be.") I also put a dab of hot glue at the base of each leaf pair to keep them from popping off the vine. The face started with an old smiling "Scream" mask, spray painted green. Unfortunately, the paint wasn't campatible and stayed sticky. I used some talc to dry the surface out. I then added some left over Halloween eyeballs and a nose. Leaves were added to the face. The edges of the leaves were used to reduce the size of the eye sockets and the mouth. Purple eyelinger and lipstick were painted on. The operator holds a handle on the back of the head and uses a pair of rods to operate the arm vines.
My needle felted duck puppet head is made from wool, the body is wool felt. Use your duck puppet to help tell a story or act out a daily event. Adults and educators like to give puppets to children because they stimulate the imagination; children love puppets because they're fun!
Duck Puppet: 12" tall x 7" wide