Here are the puppets, puppet stage and even the puppet show scripts, to get started.

Aesop's Fables Puppets and Puppet Show Scripts
Here is a set of five animal character hand puppets, speciallygroupedto 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 12-inch moving-mouth Lion and 10-inch Mouse, Fox, Rabbit and Turtle hand puppets. All puppets are machine washable, made of PlushPups Puppets are made of durable fabrics. 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. A quality PlushPups Puppets educational toy.

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
The Hare and the Tortoise
The Fox and the Grapes
The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail

Here's a free sample puppet show script you can download: Aesop's Fables "The Lion and the Mouse."

Also included with these puppet show scripts is a set of stage directions that we 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: THESE PUPPET SHOW SCRIPTS WILL BE EMAILED AS PDF FILES.

Beka Half Wing Puppet Theater
Let your little actors stage puppet performances in their very own puppet theater. The Beka Half Wing Puppet Stage is a child's puppet theater with enough room for comfortable play, in a slightly smaller, more economical version than the Beka Floor Theater puppet stage. The result is a very flexible play space for puppet shows at a great price. This Beka puppet stage is shipped assembled and features folding wing panels, a wing panel locking system, and special feet for added stability.

Please specify your choice of chalkboard or white washable markerboard surfaces for your puppet stage.The Beka Half-Wing 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.

This model INCLUDES a top-mounted puppet rack not shown in the picture.

Beka puppet theaters are perfect for stimulating imaginative play. They can be puppet stages for creative performances and interactive fun with your own puppet show, as well as becoming imaginative stores, post offices, libraries, etc. for other pretend play. Large art surfaces on the outside of the puppet theater are the key, with panels that can be custom decorated to portray scenes and announcements when used as a puppet stage, or decorated to suit your shop fronts. Beka puppet theaters are freestanding and come with a pair of colorful washable curtains that mount on a curtain rod. Puppet theater has 47" high x 24" wide center panel, 11" wide side panels. Recommended for children 3 years old and older. A quality Beka puppet theater.

In addition to the puppet scripts provided, there are any number of puppet shows you can perform with these same puppet characters, based on your own ideas, your favorite stories, real experiences, lessons to share, even movies and TV shows. Here's a list of places to find other puppet show script material. A supply of puppet show scripts keeps children interested and growing. Children can stage more professional and enjoyable puppet shows if they also follow a few simple puppet show stage directions. It's an educational toy you can have fun with as soon as it arrives. Give a child an easily accessible place to stage a puppet show and you've provided a wonderful creative development educational toy.