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 12-inch moving-mouth Lion and Mouse hand puppets, and 10-inch Fox, Rabbit and Turtle hand puppets. All puppets are machine washable, 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 puppet show fables are clearly brought out through these contemporary, original puppet theater 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
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.
Here's a free sample puppet show script:
The Lion and the Mouse
An Aesop's Fable
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In addition to the puppet show scripts provided, there are any number of puppet shows you can perform with these same 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.MOVING-MOUTH PUPPET HINT - TALKING: With moving-mouth hand puppets, the natural tendency is to SHUT the puppet's mouth with each syllable. But people do the opposite, and so should hand puppets. It may take practice, but try to get the children to OPEN the puppet's mouth with each syllable. Get more puppet stage director's tips here.
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