Activities & More
Puppet Magic

Let’s See a Show of Hands!
Handy Crafts
Stage Right
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
For this Mini-Grant program, students
wrote and performed shadow puppet plays based on African folktales
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.