Making (Almost) Instant Puppets

Author: David Currell

Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre

Published on 24^th June 2024 by The Crowood Press Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 160 pages, 437 Illustrations, unspecified
242mm x 172mm | 365g

This wonderful book is packed with a range of quick, inexpensive ways to make the main types of puppets using objects that are spare, scrap, recycled or easily accessible. With imagination and creative flair, it explains the principles and techniques that can transform a plastic bottle into a hippopotamus hand puppet or a few cardboard rolls into a dancing marionette. Alongside the practical information, it also gives staging advice so that your puppets can perform as living and believable characters. This is truly a book that will bring the magical world of puppet theatre within reach of everyone, whatever their time or resource limits.