Aesop's Fables 5-Puppets & Beka Storefront Puppet Theater & 4 Scripts

THE PUPPETS

Here is a set of five animal character hand puppets, specially grouped to match the four Aesop's Fables puppet show scripts included in this package. The hand puppets included in the Aesop's Fable Puppet Starter Set include:

• Get Ready Kids 12-inch moving-mouth Lion and Mouse hand puppets
• Get Ready Kids 10-inch moving-arms Fox and Rabbit
• Folkmanis 10-inch Turtle puppet with moveable feet and mouth and the ability to hide in its shell. 
  

Children will love exploring the different puppet mouth movements and puppet facial expressions they can achieve on these moving-mouth puppets. It's an educational toy you can have fun with as soon as it arrives.

THE SCRIPTS

The puppet show scripts are adapted especially for the puppet stage by The Creativity Institute founders, who are veteran career advertising writers and parents. The "morals" of these Aesop's Fables puppet show scripts are clearly brought out through these contemporary, original adaptations.

Puppet show scripts included are:

• The Mouse and the Lion (Little friends can be true friends.
• The Hare and the Tortoise (Slow and steady wins the race.)
• The Fox and the Grapes (It's easy to dislike what you can't get.)
• The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail (Distrust advice given selfishly.)

Also included with these puppet show scripts is a set of puppet show stage directions that The Creativity Institute put together to help parents and children stage more professional and enjoyable puppet shows, such as tips on moving mouths (almost everybody does it backwards), simulating walking, etc.

NOTE: THIS PUPPET SHOW SCRIPT AND STAGE DIRECTIONS WILL BE EMAILED AS PDF FILES.
(If script is to be emailed directly to a gift recipient, please include recipient's email address.)

Beka Store Front Puppet Theater
Let your little actors stage puppet performances in their very own puppet theater. An easily accessible puppet stage and puppets is a wonderful creative development opportunity, and this puppet stage, puppets and puppet show scripts puts everything together. Beka puppet theaters and stages are perfect for stimulating imaginative play. They can not only serve as puppet stages for creative performances and interactive fun with your own puppet show, but also imaginatively become stores, post offices, libraries, movie box offices, etc.

• Large exterior art surfaces are the key, with panels that can be custom decorated to portray scenes and make announcements when used as a puppet stage, or decorated to suit your shop fronts.

• All puppet theater panels are framed in hard maple.

• The Beka Storefront Puppet Stage consists of a single 23 1/2" wide by 45" high panel.

• The panel is supported by two feet which are easily attached with a Phillips screwdriver.

• The puppet theater opening is 21 1/2" wide by 14 1/2" high.

• Outer surfaces let the puppet theater easily be transformed to suit the occasion.

Please specify your choice of chalkboard or white washable markerboard surfaces for your puppet stage.The Beka Storefront Puppet Theater lets children decorate and re-decorate the puppet states wall panels, which are made of your choice of erasable chalkboard or white markerboard and framed in hard maple. Recommended for children ages 3 and older. Beka children's easels are quality American-made educational toys.

In addition to the puppet scripts provided, there are any number of puppet shows for kids that can be performed with these same puppet characters, based on your own ideas, your favorite stories, real experiences, lessons to share, even movies and TV shows.

Puppets and puppet theaters are categories of educational toys that are well suited to children with ADHD.

About the author.
Gwynn Torres, founder of The Creativity Institute, is a career advertising writer and creative director, Grammy nominated songwriter/musician and parent of two creative children. In creating these scripts, she has focused her talents on delighting children while including educational value.