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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Finger Puppets You Can Count On

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Make finger puppets. Learn to recognize numbers and count from one to ten and ten to one.
Activity
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Story Place: Reversible Gorilla Stick Puppet

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This activity allows students to create reversible gorilla stick puppets using the template and directions provided.
Activity
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Story Place: Puppy Puppet

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make a puppy stick puppet using the template and instructions provided.
Graphic
Rudiments of Wisdom

Rudiments of Wisdom: Puppets

For Students 9th - 10th
A kid friendly introduction to the art of puppetry. All of the fun-fact information is drawn in a cartoon style.
Website
Other

The Puppetry Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The Puppetry Home Page provides lots of resources for puppeteers including news and puppetry organizations.
Activity
Other

Legends & Lore: It's All About Puppets

For Students 3rd - 5th
This Legends and Lore site offers fun and entertaining crafts activities involving the making of puppets.
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Curated OER

Puppeteer and Shadow Puppet From Bali and Beyond

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to pages with all kinds of information regarding puppets. You can buy or sell, read current news, or learn about the history of puppets.
Graphic
Curated OER

Shadow Puppets From Stage Hand Puppets

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to pages with all kinds of information regarding puppets. You can buy or sell, read current news, or learn about the history of puppets.
Graphic
Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Puppeteer

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Cartoon of a puppeteer holding sock puppets in his hands.
Graphic
Curated OER

Exhibit of Nick Barone Puppets

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to pages with all kinds of information regarding puppets. You can buy or sell, read current news, or learn about the history of puppets.
Graphic
Curated OER

A Bunraku Performance From Awaji Puppet Theater Tradition of Japan

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to pages with all kinds of information regarding puppets. You can buy or sell, read current news, or learn about the history of puppets.
Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Spring at the Smithsonian: An Incipient Case of Puppetmania

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A useful article outlining the important features of a puppet and how to successfully use them in your classroom as a learning tool. A fun look at puppets around the world is also included.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Activity Starters: Peg + Cat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience. This site includes 5 Peg + Cat activity starters: Conversation Cards:...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Listen to Me Tell You the Story

For Teachers K
Students will listen to familiar stories and choose their favorite story among them. Then students will make puppets for each of the main characters from their favorite story. Students will share a puppet show to a small audience.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Donkey Hodie: Activity Starters

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
There are four sources in this activity bundle. Cut out these learning cards for quick, adult-led conversation and activity starters for school and for home. In activities 3 and 4, students make Character Puppets and play Puppet Theater...
Handout
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: A Life Inside Big Bird

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete with audio and video links, this NPR web page tells the story of the puppeteer who is the voice and movement of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Caroll Spinney. Includes excerpts from Spinney's autobiography. This site has lots of...
Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Donkey Hodie: Adventures in Someplace Else

For Students Pre-K - K
In this activity, children can create puppets of Donkey and her pals and play about their adventures in Someplace Else, or you can make up your own stories.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Donkey Hodie: Collection

For Students Pre-K - K
Donkey Hodie online resources provide many opportunities for educators to introduce or reinforce social emotional curriculum. In every episode of this puppet series for 3-5-year-olds, Donkey Hodie and her pals, Purple Panda, Duck Duck...
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Harold Mac Grath

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author George MacDonald including the full text of three novels: The Drums Of Jeopardy, The Goose Girl, and The Puppet Crown.
Website
Other

Puppetry Traditions Around the World

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover how puppetry differs around the world. Follow the links to over 10 countries and see traditions of making, viewing, and using puppets in different cultures.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Tes: The Tempest 2010 Teacher Pack

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This teacher resource pack is designed for use with Royal Shakespeare Company and Little Angel Theatre 2010 production of The Tempest. It is for use with younger students and offers detailed information...
Lesson Plan
Arizona State University

Arts Work: What Artists Do

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Find an eclectic list of arts-related careers--from book illustrator to puppeteer--with short write-ups in which practitioners explain what their careers are like.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sharing Original Nursery Rhymes (Distance Learning)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Collaboration of creative writing/creative dramatics using Distance Learning. With a partner, students will write an original nursery rhyme and share/present with another class (Distance Learning) through presentations (dramatization,...

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