Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Wonderful World Of 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.

A puppet show might be interactive with kids deciding what should happen next. Art and drama teachers might want to let kids develop and perform the show, choosing scripts, assigning characters, developing sound effects to complete the story. It's a blast. It's entertaining. It's an outlet for creativity and imagination.

Shows can discuss real life dilemmas and explore real life answers in an entertaining and non-threatening way. Fun marionettes can play word and number games in the style of the famous Sesame Street characters. Encouraging audience participation helps kids learn rhymes and songs. Kids will be enthralled when they see their favorite book or fairy tale dramatized by marionettes on a 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 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.

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.

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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