Aesop's Fables Puppets and Puppet Show Scripts
The five animal character puppets in this Aesop's Fables puppet set are specially grouped to match the four Aesop's Fables puppet show scripts included in this package. Puppets in the Aesop's Fable Puppet Set include a 12-inch moving-mouth Lion hand puppet. Children will love exploring the different puppet mouth movements and puppet facial expressions they can achieve on this moving-mouth puppet. The other four Aesop's Fables puppets in this puppet set are a 10-inch Mouse, Fox, Rabbit and Turtle hand puppets. All puppets are machine washable, made of PlushPups Puppets are made of durable fabrics.

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

Puppet 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

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 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.

Check out our Creativity Institute page on Art for Children for more about the value of playing at art in child development.

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 script 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.