The amount of creativity in the room was gigantic, even though the class was small, both in size and numbers. The first night of the Puppet Making for Kids class offered by the Freedom Area Recreation ...

When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...

Brant Bollman operates a cat puppet from inside during a "puppet stroll." Brant Bollman doesn’t just make puppets — he brings larger-than-life creatures to small-town Iowa. Bollman, who serves as the ...

My dad was the first person to introduce me to shadow puppets. When my sister and I were tiny kids, he would tuck us into bed, turn off the lights and then cast an image of a dog against the wall.

Jackie Smook, a puppet maker and creator of the show "Dilly's World," stands with a sardine puppet she made in a day at her home workshop. Jackie Smook, a puppet maker and creator of the show "Dilly's ...

Shadow Machine/Netflix In a career spanning more than three decades, Georgina Hayns has been making puppets that have been brought to life through the art of stop-motion animation on TV shows and ...

Current credit: Designing togs for rabbit puppets on the Disney Channel’s new series “Bunny Town.” Previous credits: “Sesame Street,” for which she’s won two Daytime Emmy Awards; “The Muppet Show”; ...