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Puppet Magic

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Let’s See a Show of Hands!

Handy Crafts


Paper bag puppetry

Stage Right

puppet girl
Make a simple stage

Impromptu Zoo


A menagerie of hand-made animals

Teaching with Puppets


Using puppets in the preschool classroom

Pitch in—A philanthropic puppet project (grades 3–5)
How to use puppets in a classroom (video)

Teaching with puppets: A video resource for teachers

Making History

Minigrant puppet
For this Mini-Grant program, students
wrote and performed shadow puppet plays based on African folktales

Learn more about Louie!

Fun Fact

Ezra often used details from his childhood in his books. Gussie is not just the name of Louie’s beloved puppet but also the pet name of Ezra’s mother, Augusta.